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This is fucking stupid. It’s also probably like six people doing this.
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Submitted 8 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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rigatti@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Its so from nypost, which is garbage
marzhall@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The classic joke: “Do you know how journalists count? ‘One, two, trend’.”
fidodo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s basically what the article says but admitting that would make for a bad headline.
thorbot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This whole article is a load of shit and whoever posted it should feel bad
return2ozma@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 8 months ago
spits
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
completely based
Quicky@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No they’re not, no they don’t.
ares35@kbin.social 8 months ago
it's nypost, did you expect accuracy?
Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is as real as the tide pod challenge
TheFriar@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It’s the fuckig NY Post. They took a few quotes from someone saying what they wanted to hear, and made it seem like it should be on everyone’s radar. Gtfoh
Rustmilian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is utter fuckin nonsense.
Not a single zoomer gives a fuck about landline phones, not even Zillennials who grew up with land lines.AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 8 months ago
So tired of these “Gen Z are…” articles. They’re always horseshit.
vamputer@infosec.pub 8 months ago
It’s just how things rotate out. Gen X had it, Millenials had it, now it’s Gen Z’s turn. It gets views from older generations who want any excuse to look down on those who’ve come after, and the generation in-question when they see the headline and think “what? Who the fuck is doing that? What are they talking about?”
Get ready for it to go on through the next decade or so.
(That said, it is horseshit, and “that’s how it’s always been” is no excuse to let things continue like that. I wouldn’t mind seeing an end put to it, myself)
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Except nobody cares about gen x. The poor forgotten generation.
Case in point, watch this excellent ad, and see how gen x are treated. :-)
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Remember the time when Millennials spent all their money on avocado toast and then killed the napkin industry?
These sorts of puff pieces are all just there to fill up space/content.
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“Gen Z ruining clickbait ‘Gen Z are ruining industry’ industry. Will they never realize complaining about them has been a national pastime for 400 years?”
THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 8 months ago
How does this belong in technology commynity post it a gossip one or something you idiot
spongebue@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I miss the days when people used punctuation
THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 8 months ago
Me too , oh well nothing you can do about it.
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As an 41 year old, I’ve actually used rotary phones and classic handsets when I was younger. And damn do I miss them. There was a distinct enjoyment in being able to properly slam down a phone when you wanted to make a point. Same thing with flip phones: you KNEW when someone hung up in a huff. Can’t quite get that point across on a smartphone.
I also miss being able to properly shoulder a handset to keep your hands free.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 8 months ago
As a 45 year old, damn do I not miss them at all.
merde@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
i miss going out and not being connected, among people who also are just there in the present
i miss walking among people who are aware of their environment
s0ckpuppet@kbin.social 8 months ago
I also miss being able to properly shoulder a handset to keep your hands free.
Earbuds are the superior option.
TheMinions@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Great for listening but every earbud I’ve tried has an absolute shit tier microphone because it picks up every ambient noise.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 8 months ago
When you see someone smash their iPhone 27 giga max ultra on the ground, you know they’re hanging up in a huff.
jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hey I think you mistyped “iPhone 27 plus pro max premium giga ultra: enjoy what android’s had for years”
finkrat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
News sites are freaking stupid.
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is everyone here talking about corded handsets when they say landline?
I’m my country landline doesn’t exist anymore. Now you need to plug a headset into your modem for VoIP. Landline was the direct copper circuit in the ground. You can’t bring back a technology that has been decommissioned. That’s like saying Gen Z is bringing back the 2G mobile network.
Dublin112@lemmy.world 8 months ago
For the most part, I believe in the US at least, that land lines are all VOIP but still referred to land lines because they are hardwired at a set location. Similar to how the internet was on dial up, DSL and fiber but it’s all called the Internet.
crashoverride@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That is def not the case
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Wait until MCI goes behind your back and changes your server to them, and you get hit with a $300 bill that month, because every call is “long distance”. Yeah. Landlines were great.
sxt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Are we? Hadn’t heard. Nobody is calling each other in the first place, really
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
And if via WhatsApp/Facetime.
nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
From that picture , just twirl my d…
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Wait til they learn about rotary phones
Dkarma@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Wait until.theynlearn about how much landlines cost these days. Forget avocado toast this is the real money sink.
jamyang@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The connection may be costly. But a beeline telephone costs less than 10$.
cebef@futurology.today 8 months ago
God I fucking hate zoomers. They would literally eat shit if gives them popularity on social media. It’s genuinely frightening to believe the future of humanity lies in their hands.
SharkAttak@kbin.social 8 months ago
Oops, wait wait. You're falling in the common fallacy of believing a news article about "You won't believe what these flippin' youngins' are doing now"
cebef@futurology.today 8 months ago
Guess i’m getting old
TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Well, someone raised them to be like this…
Nudding@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There is no future for humanity.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Happens with every generation.
The difference is that humans want to feel some outreach to others around them, and now there’s a trap based on that. Just don’t be a unit of that popularity. As in “don’t doomscroll and like\dislike”.
Rustmilian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
bringing back digital cameras
Bruh, they never left.
Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Unless they mean the point and shoot variety that cell phones had replaced?
Brokkr@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Landlines are dead, but I recently installed a VoIP phone because cell service at my house is great.
It is nice being able make calls reliabily now and the kids have a way to call 911 too.
ares35@kbin.social 8 months ago
here in the boonies, every cellular carrier, every internet provider, every--everything... goes out with single fiber cut. even cable tv goes dark since they took out local headend here (connected now via fiber to a town an hour away).
except for POTS, and the voice and data carried on it. when the whole town gets cut-off from the outside world for a whole day or more, which has happened four times in the last four years. the good ol' shitty telco is still going; their cables are separate, and go entirely different directions out of town.
that's why we still have a landline at the office; having a line-powered phone for when the power goes out (also not uncommon) is just a bonus.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Let them bring back 56kbps dialup, post vids over that.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
it’s not like other generations didn’t keep ancient phones around for decoration. there are even adapters, to make rotary phones work with newer tech.
guyrocket@kbin.social 8 months ago
Adapters to make my cell phone rotary? Got a link?
Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
lurch@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
no, i meant the other way. for cell phones there are old looking handsets. but i meant adapters from pulse dialing (rotary) or DTMF (old phones) to ISDN, which newer router/modem boxes from providers have a plug for. however, there are actually far more adapters and also guides or finished products of retrofitted rotary phones that have sim card slots
SoupBrick@yiffit.net 8 months ago
Who paid for them to write this article?
skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
We should bring back not having phone so employers can calls us outside of work hours to come in
le_saucisson_masquay@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Chinese shit isn’t going to sell by itself, hopefully there are people taking matter into their hand and buying expensive plastic phone that will be used once or two and then throwed away.
guyrocket@kbin.social 8 months ago
I think I have a couple landline phones around somewhere. And my house still has wires and jacks. I could go retro any minute now!
jonne@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Are you still going to pay for a landline tho?
guyrocket@kbin.social 8 months ago
I said I could, not that I would.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I thought people below a certain age hate voice calls and will only text.
Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Yeah that’s why Gen Z people like answering machines as an add on to their landline phones!
KrapKake@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Maybe they should start making landline style phones that take a SIM card but otherwise look and function like the phones of yesteryear.
jenny_ball@lemmy.world 8 months ago
land line quality far superior to cell phones though
BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Why would I care how clear the scammer sounds on the landline?
jenny_ball@lemmy.world 8 months ago
i just miss the crystal clarity of those days when talking on the phone. the sound was so good.
dbilitated@aussie.zone 8 months ago
are you really caring about the tibre reproduction on your weed dealer calling to say why he’s three hours late
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Imagine contacting your dealer through an open line or text these days instead of a private messaging app.
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
This is the very instant I have turned old. 👴
Rob@lemdro.id 8 months ago
Is this actually true? They all seem hooked on their Smartphones and Nintendo Switches playing Animal Crossing.
There might be some that like the estaletic of the landline phones to it but I don’t currently believe its many. Atleast not many would use it in their daily lives.
s0ckpuppet@kbin.social 8 months ago
Prob just some losers on TikTok pretending like it’s the newest trend but not really using one in real life.
Fake4000@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We all know landlines won’t be coming back. They can try and make it cool with some fancy stock photos but mobile phones have killed them long time ago.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They’re going to popularize handsets that look and function like old bell deskphones. Slide your cell phone inside the charger, and you can press buttons and use the handset via bluetooth.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s existed since ~2005, at least for the handset part.
return2ozma@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They’re selling them at Urban outfitters, Target, Best Buy, etc now hah!
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Fake4000@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fucking hell, 40 for a plastic phone.
Definitely not targeting some silly ticktock users.
Fogle@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Push button rotary 🤢
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
God damn the fucking garbage hipsters spend money on.
It’s not like the planet is drowning in pointless plastic anyway.
Further, classic copper networks are all almost gone, and will be going away, VOIP is the future, if they really want a land-line.
crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 8 months ago
My country where most people still have them.
Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 8 months ago
Do ISPs "offer" them on a non-optional basis?