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I don't think there is any point in time where I have conceptualized Youtube as a platform where I would want to subscribe to channels or see a feed of what they release. In my mind it has never been anything more than a video hosting site, not some kind of content mine I should check back on, and I refuse to use it as such because why would you even want that? And I guess internet content creators in general. I couldn't even name 3 of them without prep time and I subconsciously skip past anything I ever see on the internet that mentions a content creator by name, and have negative associations with any names I do recognize despite never seeing any of their content. That's just fundamentally not what the internet is for and I refuse to believe that's the way that most people use it, or to join them in that.
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I also don't really understand the use of apps on cellphones. I use my phone for texting (SMS, not even a whatsapp or whatever) a mobile web browser, and a 2FA device. I don't get why anyone would want to engage with mobile apps for anything but the most specialized purposes when there's no PC equivalent app.
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I don’t talk to text in my phone. I actually type and spell. I was also anti-Alexa for a long time, but I do like yelling my shopping list additions and subtractions at her. Alexa, add eggnog to the shopping list!
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Szyznyk posted:I don’t talk to text in my phone. I actually type and spell. I was also anti-Alexa for a long time, but I do like yelling my shopping list additions and subtractions at her. Alexa, add eggnog to the shopping list! The only part of Alexa I like is that if you go into someone's home and they have an Alexa you can keep asking it to rap a song to you about [topic] and it will blare out the most unlistenable garbage you could imagine until the owner gets mad and turns it off.
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Dec 7, 2025 20:51
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Me am no use wood. Rock good.
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i reply to every text with “call me”
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Bad Purchase posted:i reply to every text with “call me” genuinely hitler
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Dec 7, 2025 20:56
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Any AI bullshit gets turned off. I know how to use my programs, I don't need clippy version whatever looking over my shoulder.
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i actually use tiktok from time to time and thought i was really cool and "with it" then found out my zoomer coworkers apparently use it as like a shopping platform and a million other things unrelated to just scrolling through videos that i had no idea existed. so i'm back to being an out of touch boomer 
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I won't pay with plastic money. What a stupid invention. You can't even ball it up and throw it at someone.
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I really hate having to log into poo poo like the vacuum cleaner or garage door opener. Its nice to be able to close the garage door if I drive away and forget, though.
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Dec 7, 2025 21:09
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I have not and never will gently caress a single robot
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Cell phones/smartphones/i-phones etc. Besides the fact that people behave like complete slaves to answer a call or text immediately, the reception where I live is minimal; folks that visit get 1 bar at most. Some can get a text out, but that's it. Going to town has perfectly fine coverage but otherwise it'd only be useful less than half the time. Also, trust me when you tell people that you don't have a cellphone they look at you like you have two heads and three arms.
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Dec 7, 2025 21:21
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gently caress off with ai i won't use pic/video filters gently caress using smart devices/touch screen appliances can't stand wifi house controls i'll avoid using wireless anything as much as I can help it no i won't answer my cellphone no i won't scan your QR code i'm not going to save to the cloud or sync my data gently caress your chat assistant, give me a human representative gently caress
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Dec 7, 2025 21:24
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i've never installed or used a dating / swipe app. i also don't use any social media that requires a login other than discord for gaming and small niche sites like this one. the surveillance state guy assigned to me must be super bored.
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Sprouts (grocery store) was in the forefront of using AI to find what you were looking for- they stationed bright-eyed, bushy-tailed young people all around the store with tablets to help ease people into the transition. I asked one of them where the cheese was and they tried to get me to search using their AI thing and I just walked off saying I'd rather wander around. I wanted to explain that I didn't think it was going to steal my soul, or the government was using it to track me or that I was taking a stand in the name of bored, stoned teenagers everywhere who needed a job stocking shelves and telling assholes where the cheese was but I didn't and I came off as a crank.
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Bad Purchase posted:i reply to every text with “call me” I should start doing this
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Dec 7, 2025 21:35
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Electricity. Everything was fine without it and now you can't walk 2 feet without bumping into some infernal electric device or installation
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Wheels. The most unnatural shape in the world! If we were meant to use wheels god would evolve us some bone spikes and really hosed up joints probably,!
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deep dish peat moss posted:I also don't really understand the use of apps on cellphones. I use my phone for texting (SMS, not even a whatsapp or whatever) a mobile web browser, and a 2FA device. I don't get why anyone would want to engage with mobile apps for anything but the most specialized purposes when there's no PC equivalent app. I like awful app, you should try it for posting "on the go"
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Twitter imbeds posted on this site. A lot of the time the tweet only makes sense if you see the whole picture but whatever you're supposed to see is cropped out in the imbed and I have no idea why the tweet was posted but I'm not gonna click on it to go to Twitter to look at the full-size picture so I just ignore it and move on to the next post.
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Im staunchly against any and all rays. No gravity rays, no freezing rays, no heat rays, and especially no destructo rays.
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I briefly tried to use apps like Duolingo for language, or apps for learning programming, I'd look at online instruction videos, peruse written materials online, but then realized after about a year of it that the best way to learn things is still the same as ever, buying an actual textbook on the subject.
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Dec 7, 2025 22:41
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Self check out I’m not paying you for me to have to bag this poo poo suck my hairless balls
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Dec 7, 2025 22:58
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Bad Purchase posted:i reply to every text with “call me” I’m like this too, only when someone calls me I tell them to text me then hang up.
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Dec 7, 2025 23:04
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I refuse to use Spotify and all that junk, I just listen to music on YouTube. But during the pandemic I was using it for workout music and a three minute long ad about children with leukemia came on, so i finally caved and paid to get rid of YouTube ads.
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I don't use spotify because lol at paying to listen to music instead of just listening to what I already own. E: hahaha
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Waltzing Along posted:I don't use spotify because lol at paying to listen to music instead of just listening to what I already own. I have a terabyte of music on a portable hard drive and I end up just listening to YouTube.
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flubber nuts posted:Im staunchly against any and all rays. No gravity rays, no freezing rays, no heat rays, and especially no destructo rays. Man, you are gonna hate reading Stardust the Super Wizard.
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I drive a 27 year old car and had to be shown to press the brake pedal to make a push button car start
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I never use ChatGPT. I don't like the idea that an AI does the thinking for me and I generally stay away from any AI bullshit. I also don't use any social media, unless you call SA as one. I threw away Faecesbook 3 years ago, same with Instacrap and Twatter and I never had DickTok or any of these cringe platforms. I deleted my Reddit account a few days ago. I still have an old school wrist watch. It doesn't track my heart rate, my sleep pattern nor does it connect to my phone. It just tells me the time. Also, my smartphone has the bare minimum apps. I hate having my phone bloated with all this poo poo I don't want to and I have all notifications turned off except SMS, me alarm clock and phone calls. I use my phone for banking, phone calls, waking up, SMS, 2FA poo poo and surfing. That's all. All the music in my car is on a USB stick in mp3 format. I'm late Gen X/early Millennial. What did you expect? OldPyjama fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Dec 8, 2025 |
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I won't drive a car that needs a screen for its basic functions. Buttons and knobs are much better in almost every conceivable way. I'll allow a backup camera screen though.
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I'm pretty ok with modern tech, but I won't create any kind of social media and I refuse to use voice interfaces for some reason. Just kind of feels like I'm acknowledging some sort of humanity in a device, and especially with how the AI psychosis poo poo is playing out, I refuse to do that. You're a machine; don't loving talk to me.
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I’ve never used uber or any delivery app service. I dont think nerd cunts in the bay area or their piece of poo poo investors should ever be remunerated for labor performed by actual working human beings miles and miles away. I won’t play games on a phone or let my kids do so either. Games need buttons. No social media, no linked in. Ditto on youtube people.
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I do not use rideshares or delivery like Uber uber eats whatever the hell because my mother taught me not to get into cars with strangers and it’s served me well. Plus the few licensed taxi drivers left are extremely grateful for the work and love commiserating about how much rideshares suck.
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I'm past 40 and still not 100% sure how to scan a QR code and can't be bothered learning... So, I guess that's me sticking it to the man
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Oracle posted:I do not use rideshares or delivery like Uber uber eats whatever the hell because my mother taught me not to get into cars with strangers and it’s served me well. Plus the few licensed taxi drivers left are extremely grateful for the work and love commiserating about how much rideshares suck. Just hitchhike like the old days. You might make a new friend  cheezel posted:I'm past 40 and still not 100% sure how to scan a QR code and can't be bothered learning... So, I guess that's me sticking it to the man Point your phone camera at it and it should pop up a link.
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cheezel posted:I'm past 40 and still not 100% sure how to scan a QR code and can't be bothered learning... So, I guess that's me sticking it to the man When I pay with my phone by scanning the receipt at Cracker Barrel my 70 year old supervisor looks at me like I’m a warlock.
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