No kidding. I’m in my late 30s, and for awhile I would tell myself that this would finally be the year that I finally make enough money to get my shit together and be a real adult, with a wife & kids, three cars, investments & money in my savings account.

Gave up on that dream by age 30, and now I’m just trying survive another year with my fingers crossed that yet another body part doesn’t join my shoulder, neck, knees, and back, and start hurting 24/7 just for shits and giggles.

Man, 2020 really did seem hopeful back in 2019, didn’t it? New decade, presidential election coming up… What could possibly go wrong?

I could not in fact tell by your username, so thank you for the information.

One of the many things that annoys me about the sitcom Big Bang Theory is that as pedantic as Sheldon is, not once does he ever complain to Penny about the lack of headrests in her car. You’d think he’d refuse to ride until she replaced them. Totally immersion breaking.

Not me. I can tell when you’re just smiling and nodding, and not actually listening. It’s very obvious when people do it, and is usually my cue to stop talking cause no one actually cares.

“Report button abuse” for reporting too many blatant ads as spam.

It happened right around the same time as the API fiasco, so I didn’t give two flying fucks. I was leaving anyway.

That’s not how the Sa Sa Le Le meme works…

CRTs whine at ~15kHz, which should be audible until at least your 40s.

I’m 37, and have absolutely destroyed my hearing by always having a loud sound system with booming subs in my car ever since I was a teenager, yet I can still hear up to ~17kHz. I can always tell when I’m in a house with a running CRT.

If you’re younger than me and can’t hear CRTs, can’t tell the difference between FM and HD Radio, or the difference between a 96kbps MP3 and 320k/lossless, then it might be a good idea to get a hearing test.

OLED burn-in hasn’t been an issue for years. Last time I got burn-in was 2014.

All of my screens are OLED (PC monitors, TV, phone, car stereo). The oldest display in my house is from 2019. None of them are showing any signs of burn-in, and I obsessively check for it all the time.

Shit like this is why I’ll never understand why Macs are so god damn popular in the music industry. Meanwhile my trusty old Asus gaming laptop from 2012 still works with all my DJ and production hardware just fine. It’s amazing at its job so I see no reason to upgrade. I have the Ryzen 7000 desktop with a 4090 if I need a bit more horsepower for gaming or video editing or whatever.

As a former cashier, I really hate people like you.

No, I will not check out your groceries for you. You are in self checkout. Wait in line like everyone else if you don’t want to check out the items yourself, you impatient, obsolete bastard. FFS, self checkout has been a thing for over twenty years now; get with it, old man!

(Edit: I haven’t been in retail for over a decade now. This post really triggered some PTSD I didn’t even know I had.)

Millennial, here, and this is just my early-to-mid teen years, which I consider part of my childhood.

Showed the meme to my GF who born in 1994 and she couldn’t even relate to half of this starter pack. Her era was Wii and DS, not GBA and PS2. Her first phone was an iPhone.

Or you could just use your OS’s volume control like a normal person. Buy a keyboard with a volume knob. And I haven’t seen a laptop without volume control hotkeys in at least 20 years.