For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
If it isn’t done by 10:00 am then it isn’t getting done.
Antiques Roadshow is absolutely amazing. It’s fascinating to see some of the old things people happen to have.
Anyways, I’m at the point where I’m rewatching a bunch of old shows and cartoons I watched growing up, either through reruns or actually seeing. Mostly reruns, like how I’m currently on season 1 of The Golden Girls, a show I second hand absorbed to the point it’s one of my all time favorite live action shows period. I hope when I get old I can be a male version of Sophia.
Also, I don’t need a “smart” TV. If it can handle HDMI cables, that’s good enough for me. I’ve been thinking if I ever have to upgrade monitors or get my own “smart” TV, that I’ll purposefully break warranty to crack it open to remove any form of camera/microphone and remove anything that allows the device to connect to the Internet, Wi-Fi, or cellular data, or whatever else there is.
How it’s Made.
And get off my lawn.
I don’t know if they still make episodes of How It’s Made, but that show was amazing. Sure some things, like their episode on computers, are definitely outdated, but it’s still a cool thing to see regardless.
My age 😁
Arthritis, so I can predict rain with my knees.
I have several joint damaging injuries. I’ve broken my ankle, torn the cartilage in my knee, and dislocated my shoulder fourteen times - and not only are those only the joint injuries, but only those that have required surgery.
Last year, during a change of seasons, I was visiting a local diner for a takeout order and asked if they minded if I sat down to wait for my order, explaining that I was a damaged individual. They, of course, acquiesced, but then the owner of the venue asked if I noticed more pain during inclement weather.
That was the first time over about thirty years of owies that I realized my pain might be correlated with barometric pressure.
I’m ready for the sweet embrace of eternal slumber.
I have opinions on my lawn and your proximity to it.
My old person trait is being 72.
You! The only person on Lemmy older than me!
I love shoehorns and sneeze loudly.
Didn’t realise these were old person traits but then these are also mine.
Involuntary groans whenever I sit down or stand up.
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 try like hell to avoid shopping at peak times. Before Covid, I could shop at 2am, but now I’m one of the oldsters waiting for the place to open at 7 or 8am.
I also like Antiques Roadshow, but only the American version. I don’t give two shits about your mums tea set that was signed by the Queen’s dog-wrangler that you paid 50 quid for that’s now worth 200 pounds.
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.
At 39, this is becoming more and more accurate to me as time goes on. I remember telling some kid trying to pitch me TikTok when it first came out: “They brought back Vines?”
I remember giving TikTok a go and getting frustrated because it kept showing me stupid videos of kids dancing and I couldn’t find a way of searching for specific topics and I ended up rage-uninstalling it.
After I calmed down it dawned on me that the “stupid kids” dancing were actually around 18-20 years old and I couldn’t find what I wanted because I didn’t understand the UI.
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 can’t bring myself to trust any information from LLMs that I don’t already know.
I like to go to bed at 9/10 and wake up at 4/6
The older I get the earlier my bedtime/alarm gets.
My old person trait is my knees.
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.
I love that app so much. My Amseln and Kohlmeisen are so sweet.
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.
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I have never purchased a smartphone and don’t want one. I still prefer to use a flip phone. Their quality has improved over the years so I haven’t been forced to switch yet.
