For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I absolutely hate AI.
Is this an old person trait? Consider me a curmudgeon then.
Anything invented before you turn 15 is just how the world works.
Anything invented between the ages of 15 and 30 is revolutionary and groundbreaking and you should pursue a career in it.
Anything invented after you turn 30 goes against the natural order of things.
I don’t think AI (aka LLMs) is / are against the natural order, I just think they are a terrible tool for work that requires thinking. And there are a lot of people, including medical professionals, who don’t care enough to verify what is presented to them. At least if I use AI generated code, I can test it.
Yeah, I use LLMs all the time for all sorts of things. Like, I’ll be working on a diy project and will think “I need a thing, and I know this thing exists, I just don’t know what it is called.” LLMs are great for that.
I would think so. Given how obsessed people have become with AI and how pretty much everyone and their mother has ingrained themselves with AI. It’s harder to find someone who doesn’t use it at all than those who do. I hate it and everything that comes with it.
Gen Z here. I think you’d be surprised to find that gen z generally hates ai slop. Specifically the slop, most people are ok with some AI use.
For llms It’s seen the same way I imagine search engines were (I was born after Google existed). People can just find an answer for their problem instead of searching for it in a book or asking someone. This can either be amazing for learning new things, or for cheating. My professors even tell me to USE ai to learn, just know how to actually use it to help learn rather than get the correct answer and be done with it.
I’ve started noticing birds, and worse, I’ve started recognizing them.
If you haven’t tried Cornell’s “Merlin” app, I highly recommend it.
Bird watching is peaceful. I love it.
That app is awesome!
I volunteered over the summer to track birds at a plot of local conservation land. Went out there at the crack of dawn with binoculars and everything. That’s when I knew I was really getting old.
I refuse to use TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. I only have Facebook because 90% of my friends and family are there and it’s the primary way I stay in touch with them, but I’d like to get rid of that too.
Regarding TikTok, I was serving in the US military as an IT sysadmin when it became popular. But we discovered that the app embedded itself deep in your phone’s hardware, granted itself full administrative access to your phone, then started trickling all your data to servers in China. And you couldn’t fully uninstall it once you’d installed it once. Your phone was completely compromised if you ever installed that app.
It became a huge security risk and we were told to never use it. It was a horrifyingly effective spy tool China could use to easily collect data on us. That’s why President Biden pushed to ban TikTok in the US.
But of course, TikTok became super popular among our civilian population and they refused to give it up, which led to a lot of pushback against the ban. It never held, and now people are still using it and sharing all their private information with China.
Meta does something similar with Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp, but we at least can keep tabs on what they’re doing with your private data, since they’re an American company. They mostly use your information to build advertising profiles on you, to better catch your attention with ads. But that information could easily be used against you if federal organizations wanted to. ICE could use it to identify non-white Americans and their daily habits and easily intercept them.
Still, if you don’t want your private information being potentially stolen by these companies, it’s best to dump these programs. I don’t install them on my phone or tablet and I keep Facebook’s website isolated on my computer, since it likes to read other open windows and use those sites to fine-tune advertising data for you.
Google has turned into one of these companies that collects data on everything you do, so I’m in the middle of de-Googling my life right now. But it’s really hard because they’re embedded everywhere.
We’re living in a dark time where the only way to prevent corporations and governments from collecting information on you is to stay offline. Which is nearly impossible nowadays. We don’t get privacy in this modern Information Age. Not while Capitalism is still a thing.
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When you install TikTok, it fabricates its own independent SoC within your phone. Sometimes you can tell because the case bulges slightly, but it depends on the model.
This isn’t strictly forbidden by Android and iOS APIs (yet), but there are limitations – this most notably affects the capacitors on the new SoC which degrade quickly and can make a faint clicking noise, hence the name “TikTok”.
I don’t know the veracity of the statements about tiktok, but I do remember a hubbub back in the day about facebook nestling into parts of your phone and not being uninstalled with the app. A quick search later, and it looks like it was because it was a ‘default app’ on samsung phones. So yeah, for this I definitely want to see the proof of concept and at least some relevant info on tiktok specifically.
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These days I only go on facebook for marketplace and a few community groups.
Yep, I am like this too.
How do you effectively promote spyware?
Make it addictive like a drug, make it a core element of common culture, and most importantly, make it have some kind of socializing network effect that generates a knee jerk disgust in normies when anyone dares to question its widespread and regular use.
It is extremely funny to me when someone asks me to install say discord or insta or whatsapp, and I say I don’t use them for security and privacy reasons…
Then I ask them to install signal, and they say ‘I’m not going to install a whole app just for you.’
Apparently entirely unaware of, oblivious that they literally just asked me to do that.
whooooosh
Then they get angry and begin to babble on about some kind of idiot nonsense about how either I don’t know how to do digital security or how its just impossible so why try, or both.
If I mention that I literally did handle PII in corporate databases and thus do actually understand a decent chunk of cybersecurity…
They tend to become emotional and defensive.
Try to explain anything in detail to them and they have a bunch of sophomoric / dunning krueger instant retorts and thought terminating cliches, because they don’t want to listen or possibly learn anything, they want to justify their digital drug addiction.
Oh well, works as an idiot filter for me.
Suffer no fools.
My old person trait is being 72.
You! The only person on Lemmy older than me!
I always get printed boarding passes for domestic flights.
Some part of my body always hurts. Mostly back, intestines, and joints, but these feet of mine have been finding their footing in this game lately too. Life is pain ;(
Napping
No, I do not have whatever stupidly named money transfer app you’re using this week, and no, I will not install it.
I am incredibly difficult to buy gifts for because I have everything I want, which is not much at all.
I primarily write in cursive.
Ugh, I feel this one. I had only written in cursive for something like twenty years, and then I got a job where I needed to write in print for some legal reasons. It was super bad, yo.
Yes, me too. Cursive is easier and faster to write. Though I usually print the capital letters.
When out eating and drinking, my preference is to go and order food and drink at the counter/bar, rather than install some app or give a website all my personal information before I can order.
What? This is a thing at restaurants now?
I prefer an analog kitchen. Spring based scales, wooden utensils, gas stove, glass storage.
I upgraded from a normal electric range to an induction range… OMG the difference!
It really is fucking amazing. I was always a gas guy but induction is a game changer
Where I rent now sadly has induction as well. Really miss gas.
One less monthly bill though… unless there are other gas appliances.
Electric scale because it’s more accurate. Wooden utensils yes agreed, plastic from utensils does break down in your food especially while cooking, high temps. Electric stoves are a lot healthier than gas, for yourself in the kitchen and for the environment/climate. Electric stoves got soooo much better in the last 15 years. Other than nostalgia, I don’t see a reason to prefer gas nowadays. Glass for storage is the best, agreed.
An electric kitchen scale is such a game-changer. If you convert ingredient volume into weight and something ends up being a fraction of a gram, especially when reducing a recipe, no big deal.
I get up earlier on weekends than weekdays. I try to get up at 6am but I often get up to pee at 4am and just stay up. I do a bunch of things and it feels like I’ve had a good day then I realize it’s only like 10am and I still have a whole day ahead of me.
My age
Literally everything i do. Im not even old but I could keep a conversation going with a 60 year old easily.
Old cars, reel to reels, vhs, win 95, atari 2600, pentium 3s, 50s music, records and vintage amplifiers and speakers…dos commands…the list goes on
That and I hate social media (i realize lemmy is social media) and my smartphone stays off on weekends. I prefer books.
