MagneticFusionSep 23, 2023

I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app.

https://lemm.ee/post/9057055

I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. - lemm.ee

I have recently started university and am required to use an app that has three Facebook trackers, one of them being a Facebook location tracker according to Exodus App Privacy, for the dining plan, when it would literally work perfectly fine using your student ID and ordering to a real cashier, LIKE HOW IT HAS BEEN DONE FOR DECADES. I have also read many stories of people that live in apartments that require them to use a mobile app for god damn LAUNDRY. All you need, is a card reader, and it will work perfectly fine like it has been for the longest time. Privacy concerns aside, it is just annoying that you need this app and that app and this app and that app and it just clutters space on your phone. Security concerns too as now they have all of this additional info on you online, such as your phone number your email your real name, instead of just your credit card info like a card reader would have. And I am willing to guarantee that their security model is absolute horseshit because they have such a small team of engineers working on the app and the servers. Literal enshitification

Show threadradix

A person’s music taste seems to crystalize at some point in their teenage years. The bands you loved at 15-17 are probably the bands that you’ll love forever.

Likewise, I’m finding that my relationship with information services as a whole probably crystalized a while ago, and the new era of “apps for every individual thing” is just wholly unappealing. Give me a web browser to interface with your information. If I can’t get it done with that, I’m more likely to move on to some even older tech and skip your product altogether.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m late to bingo. And get off my lawn.

Sep 23, 2023 at 7:16pmWeb
Show threadN-E-NSep 23, 2023
I’m doing my best to constantly listen to new music every week to keep fresh and malleable in my taste
Show threadexpatriadoSep 23, 2023
yea, discovering is part of the fun
Show threadRaiSep 23, 2023
RIP what.cd’s amazing music discovery spider web chart
Show threadnillocSep 25, 2023

I leaned hard on Waffles top 10 and also turntable.fm rooms after college.

Now in my 40s, I’ma little bit stuck in the LCD Sound System era of electro indie.

Show threadRaiSep 23, 2023

I HATED rap and whatnot when I was 12-19 or so. Apple too.

Now I’m constantly listening to clipping. and doneone and UGK (RIP Young Pimp C) on my iPhone.

Show threadfraydabsonSep 23, 2023
PWAs for the win!
Show threadScrofSep 23, 2023
Dunno I can’t stand the music I listened to in my teenage years.
Show threadA_Random_IdiotSep 23, 2023

I dont listen to anyone I liked as I kid cause they all came out as sex traffickers and pedophiles.

now I just listen to disney music, and waiting for the inevitable horror revelations with regards to those.

Show threadswab148Sep 23, 2023
Well, it’s Disney so…
Show threadRaiSep 23, 2023
I WILL NEVER STOP LOVING THE BLOOD BROTHERS
Show threadWhispSep 23, 2023
But...your grass is so nice and I can't afford a lawn 🥲
Show threadTonyTonyChopperSep 24, 2023
cut out avocado toast and Starbucks (sarcasm)
Show threadidkSep 23, 2023
I don’t think that’s tri,
Show threadradixSep 23, 2023
I don’t know if anyone growing up these days would actually like mobile app requirements if they took the time to think about why they’re required. Source: I’m one of them.
Show threadAuliSep 23, 2023
Most people young or old don’t think about it and don’t care.
Show threadRaivoKulliSep 23, 2023

The bands you loved at 15-17 are probably the bands that you’ll love forever.

Thank god that wasn’t the case. Listened to some awful shit as a kid

Show threadeumesmoSep 24, 2023
Me neither. I wonder if that’s even true, because i see a lot of people changing tastes with age.
Show threaddanwardvsSep 23, 2023
An interesting experiment on the music thing. Top songs on your 13th birthday, at least for US/North Americans. www.birthdayjams.com
#1 Song On Your Birthday

Find the number one song on any day. Listen now or watch the music video. Featuring the top hits from all the charts.

Show threadjarvis2323Sep 24, 2023
Wonder what they use your birthday for?
Show threaddoppelgangmemberSep 24, 2023
Wait come back!! You dropped your cane!
Show threadPons_AeliusSep 24, 2023

I’m finding that my relationship with information services as a whole probably crystalized a while ago

You are correct but it goes further:

Any tech that existed before you start school is completely natural and quite boring.

Any tech that is invented while you still care about new tech (this can be anywhere between 15 and 45 as it depends on the person) is exciting and cool.

Anything after that is squarely in get off my lawn territory and a bit scary and confronting.

Show threadthis_is_routerSep 24, 2023

Everything that’s normal between age 10-20 is just as it is.

Everything you get to know between 20 and 30 is the hot new shit.

Everything after age 30 is just another fad you don’t want to invest time to get to know anyway

Show threadGoodbyeBlueMondaySep 25, 2023

I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

  • Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
  • Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
  • Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

    • ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

    Show threadthis_is_routerSep 26, 2023
    Oh cool, thanks for providing the source
    Show threadGabuSep 24, 2023
    That’s altogether BS. The bands I listen to have changed constantly since my teenage years. That’s just an excuse to become a ranting old man.
    Show threadKingSep 24, 2023
    Nice bullshit armchair Freud u hating every change due to immaturity or unwillingness to learn doesnt mean we do too
    Show threadEngineerGamingSep 24, 2023
    Not necessarily… I grew up already in the era of apps, but have the same attitude. And I actually did actively use a smartphone during my tween and early teen years.