• Pleb
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      216 months ago

      My back suddenly started hurting…

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
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      96 months ago

      Why do all of these things make me feel old… I’m gen Z but heavily relate to gen x and millennial when people ask me “wtf does that mean?” and I just say “it was before your time.” Like wtf it was “before my time” too… idk I guess that’s the only benefit of being adopted by boomers.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      56 months ago

      Back in the distant 1990’s there wasn’t enough solar energy to run our central heating, so we had to burn our CD collections to stay warm.

    • @ZILtoid1991
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      26 months ago

      I’m thinking on going back to optical media, for archiving purposes. It’s even ransomware-resistant.

  • @[email protected]
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    546 months ago

    It’s why I like Lemmy, it’s a safe space for Millennials and Gen X. Neither the boomers or yooths can figure out how to make an account without downloading it from the app store.

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
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      186 months ago

      Gen Z here, after creating my mastodon account on an infosec instance and using that for a while, I found out about Lemmy and ditched reddit for good. So after registering on a smaller furry instance through my browser and trying a couple of different apps, I ended up here… not all of us are dumb ipad kids. Don’t get me wrong either, most of my generation are indeed a bunch of skibidi-brains… but there’s some hope anyways. I think. If we survive the civil unrest, climate change, the coming world war, and the general ignorance of the vast majority of our generation… ok maybe we are fucked. I guess we can thank the boomers together for that.

    • sag
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      66 months ago

      You think we are that dumb? 😭 (GenZ)

      • @ZILtoid1991
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        46 months ago

        Gen Z are quite dumb. Some of them suggested me to modify my game engine to be able to be ran from a browser, I politely decline every time (I still need to move the rendering from the CPU to the GPU, since I figured out how to do retro pixel-perfect graphics, all with color lookup).

  • @theangryseal
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    236 months ago

    As a man in my 30s who enjoys VR, good god the kids torment me.

    I came up with a decent reply. “Why are you on Oculus, old man?”

    “Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t realize a bunch of fucking toddlers made the Quest. I’m proud of you guys! I was under the impression that VR was mostly created by my generation, but it’s cool to see your elementary school science project took off like this. Congrats on your A+! You’re building the future.”

    Usually shuts them up or makes them fumble and a few kids get on my side with it haha.

    I’ve been the old sage sitting in the building in Pavlov Containers giving the youngins life advice. Always a wonderful experience when they aren’t bullying me or when I bump into a fellow old.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      26 months ago

      That’s way too much effort. Just go with the ol “because I got tired of being on your mom”.

  • @Etterra
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    196 months ago

    At 45, I can confidently say that that 30-year old brat is out of control.

  • Sabata
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    186 months ago

    You got to call people out like that… back in my day we disrespected everyone equally online.

  • @[email protected]
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    136 months ago

    This is how it feels post-30 when you get out of bed in the morning and your body is slightly off balance.

  • Midnight Wolf
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    126 months ago

    How it feels to be called a graymuzzle once you hit 30

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      a furry? on .world??? I didn’t know they existed!

      out of curiosity what communities are you subscribed to?

      • Midnight Wolf
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        16 months ago

        From selfhosting to foreskin, grapheneos to costco, chastity to theonion

        (not all from .world ofc but I maintain one account only for lemmy. I came from the reddit exodus last year.)

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      I mean I’ll take it at this point. I was talking to someone recently who was 18, and realized I literally was part of the community before they were born

  • @[email protected]
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    66 months ago

    30 years, on top of another 50 years you mean?

    Even if he meant this in hexadecimal base 16, I still wouldn’t believe it!:-P

    • @wavebeam
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      26 months ago

      No it’s mega man battle network for gba