I remember when I used to be able to find dedicated message boards for bands that I liked. Now I’m lucky if there’s a subreddit where it’s just a bunch of people submitting poorly drawn fan art of the band.

c/fuckcars

Further justifying my commitment to avoiding Prime at all costs.

My boomer parents will die on the hill that it sounds “wrong” to use “they” to refer to a singular entity. And whenever they bring that up, I always remind them that the word “they” has been used in that way for AGES.

Example: “Whose umbrella is this? Did they already leave?”

It doesn’t seem to make a difference.

Privacy isn’t dead, but it will be soon because those of us who seriously care about it are the 0.001%.

This is basically “dog bites man” territory at this point.

The “Blocked since install” stat on uBlockOrigin is always an eye-opener.

Yes, this exactly! I still cannot fathom how Discord took off. It offers literally no advantages over forums, and introduces some massive disadvantages.

And this is precisely why you don’t store your files in the cloud.

It’s so absurd. It feels like half of the websites out there actively don’t want me to visit them.

I always say, “Um, I think so. I guess schedule it and I’ll cancel it later if I have to?” Then there’s an awkward silence while they put it into the system.

Worst part of the dentist by far.

“You wouldn’t download a car.”

“You wouldn’t hit mute during the commercials on a television broadcast.”

A tactile keyboard. There was a time when I could text with my eyes closed (literally). Now it takes me 30 seconds to “type” out a text that should take < 10 seconds.