Alcohol consumption. I don’t drink alcohol - ever. Never have and probably never will. And it can be really hard being with people, who find it cool and funny to drink excessive amounts. I volunteer as a scout leader in my country. It is astonisihing, what some of the troop leaders think of ok, when working with youth groups. And often enough even the regulations for underage drinking are broken (which are already relatively low, comparing to the US). They all just don’t care as long as they get to drink as they like. You can probably hear how frustrated I am, though I’m over with fighting it. Won’t change ever and it is not good for my psychological state to go against society here apart from my own personal decisions.
Smartphones. I actually want them to last and be at least half reliable and work for a couple of years unlike xiaomi phones.
Kitchen knives. Nothing is better than a chef’s knife with a forged shoulder and razor sharp blade.
omg. bussiness practices. Im an aging tech guy who falls into bussiness stuff and it galls me to have people with jobs where their specialty is management and they can’t do the most basic stuff. Case in point we hire a management company for our condo association and are assigned a manager. I ask about the process for having some work done on my place and it goes into a back and forth chain because the manager cannot communicate clearly. What really galls me though is this is a common query that should have a document that I could be sent with all the formalities spelled out. Its like. How did you get this job!
Privacy.
I know I can’t completely stop any large corporations from collecting or using data about me, but I pursue a stubborn, swiss-cheese/defense-in-depth strategy to reduce the data anyone has on me to a minimum.
This means I have a dumb t.v., don’t pay for streaming services, don’t like or subscribe to things, have a non-standard encrypted email, have a non-standard phone, computer, browser, don’t use AI powered suggestions if at all possible, and on and on.
It means a lot of minor inconveniences, basically.
EDIT: I just realized this probably counts as tech. Oh well.
