For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
My old person trait is being 72.
You! The only person on Lemmy older than me!
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 love that app so much. My Amseln and Kohlmeisen are so sweet.
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 opinions on my lawn and your proximity to it.
I refuse to scan a qr code for a menu. Give me a damn piece of paper
This irritates the hell out of me, especially after those malicious link hijacks in the news recently. I’d accept a url before a qr code.
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 always get printed boarding passes for domestic flights.
How and why?
Sorry for the late reply, as others mentioned, either print at home, hotel, or at self check in kiosks at the airport. I’m irrationally paranoid about something happening to my phone whenever I need it for things beyond basic dumb phone use.
The worldwide outage caused by the faulty security update (last year?) happened while I was in the air and nearly disrupted my trip. I was flying from Japan back to my mom’s hometown in Thailand and had one more connection in Bangkok. The gate attendants were only letting people on the connecting flight with printed boarding passes.
No rush. Thanks for taking the time.
That global security update last year put out a whole bunch of services. It could just as easily been the paper versions that wouldn’t scan and the digital were the only ones accepted. Just luck.
However, I can see the benefit for international flights with connections as your phone or device could easily lose power with long haul flying. Still pretty easy fix as most airports have power outlets everywhere for charging. But, if there was a flight delay landing, that would be a rush and extra stress.
How many flights worldwide are there? It seems like an awful waste of paper, for what is effectively a barcode.
Agreed on the waste factor. Alaska airlines started accepting electronic luggage tags that could be programmed by airlines to display the same information that goes on the paper ones. Somehow it doesn’t require a battery, and I’d hope it’s robust enough to handle getting tossed around. Something similar for boarding passes as well would be nice to have. Maybe provided by the airline and returned at your destination.
Own a printer and because relying on technology is for suckers.
Lol, because printers is basically hunter gatherer territory. I just think printing digital information is wasteful. I don’t even see elderly people doing it any more. That’s why I’m curious. It seems harder, not easier these days.
It’s really easy for me to print something. One button. And then I don’t have to fight a spotty 4g connection to load a barcode.
It’s really easy for me to save my boarding pass. One button. No paper James, no ink, no networking issues. Each method works fine, almost all the time. One just is more wasteful and easier to lose or damage.
I’ve never been to an airport without wifi in the day of digital passes.
Right, also, access your pass and screen shot it, then its in your camera roll and not locked away behind logins, networking, and data blackouts
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.
Other people don’t? Why are other people writing like children?
Yes, me too. Cursive is easier and faster to write. Though I usually print the capital letters.
You mean, like, other than twice my age being statistically dead?
Many.
Let’s start with neo-Luddite tendencies, e.g. deep suspicion of, and wanting very little to do with: devices with planned obsolescence; devices that basically spy on the user; this push for LLMs and similar generative artificial “intelligence”.
Or rather, the people who are pulling the strings, so to speak, behind those technologies. The technologies themselves have great potential, but that cannot be reached under those who presently control them.
Also a strong dislike of people, usually kids, making noise or worse, actually being on my property because they have no respect for certain boundaries, or they don’t even know those boundaries exist. Classic “damn kids, get off my lawn” old man attitude.
And finally: I still have a flip-phone and have no other computing devices beyond the one desktop PC I’m writing this comment from.
if it helps people like me have a 50% suicide attempt rate by my age
…I’m 18
And finally: I still have a flip-phone and have no other computing devices beyond the one desktop PC I’m writing
That is hardcore. I respect it. Even my 86 year old mother has a smartphone.
Involuntary groans whenever I sit down or stand up.
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 am incredibly difficult to buy gifts for because I have everything I want, which is not much at all.
I genuinely hate new things and most change at this point.
I don’t think it’s me getting old. I think I was raised differently than most of my peers and exposed to how previous generations actually fought for their rights instead of rolling over and taking it up the ass.
Most of my peers are dumb as shit and have no concept of how much businessmen are taking advantage of them. If someone tells them to buy something, they’ll buy it.
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 ;(
Ya probably eating something you can’t tolerate. Been checked for coeliac disease? Affects joints, gut, skin, etc…
It’s a combination of arthritis and ulcers in my case, but you’re spot on about poor diet playing its part with my ulcers. Learned that lesson a long time ago. And the again some time later. And then again after that. And then again last week, too. Such is life. Not sure what’s up with my back tho
Sorry to hear about your aches and pains, I get them too as I’ve been getting older, especially my knees. I have a spinal fusion and a few things have really helped to alleviate my chronic back pain.
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Stretch every day. I pay special attention to my hamstrings, they get most of the stretching because it helps loosen lower back muscles too.
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Try not to sit too much. A sit stand desk helps with that, but I also try to stand if I’m watching tv. It’s weird, but it works.
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Go for walks. I don’t have to go anywhere, I just throw on an audiobook or music and walk for an hour or two around the neighborhood.
These keep my daily pain minimal, most days it’s so low pain, I can just ignore it and I’m fine.
Thank you for this sage advice, dude. Tried all three over the last couple days and am having a much better time over here. I was already stretching my back and shoulders etc most days, but the hamstring note was such an obvious connection that I just never put together on my own, and it’s already making a massive difference. Like, im still dealing with pain in the area, but compared to a few days ago, the difference is clear.
You’ve changed a strangers life for the better and it is appreciated greatly.
Fuck yes my dude! The hamstring connection isn’t the most obvious, but makes a lot of sense once you hear it. I spend 5 minutes on hamstring stretches alone and it helps keep a lot of my pain away. I could never touch my toes until I had 2 metal rods in my back! 🤣
I am so glad to hear it’s helping!
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Gluten gives me so many ulcers, pisses me right off
I avoid going out during busy times - e.g., rush hour, school zones, restaurants on a Friday or Saturday night.
I love shoehorns and sneeze loudly.
Didn’t realise these were old person traits but then these are also mine.
