A relative told me "you're too young to be so old-fashioned about technology," after I said I don't use AI to code, and seeing that I wasn't wearing a smartwatch. And I would disagree, I don't eschew new technology. I have a new smartphone, I have a new PC I built myself, I have a ton of extensions loaded on my browser, I run a Pihole, I wrote meager updates for my Fediverse instance. I love new technology.
What I don't love is that new technology often comes strapped to the side of a Rent-seeking subscription service. It's got toxic advertising forming a cancerous growth right in plain view. It requires an account and personal data and loads a hundred tracking cookies to share that data with a thousand third parties. And it's all held hostage by the company going bankrupt and turning your tech into a brick.
So yeah, I'm not old-fashioned about new technology, I'm just stubborn and refuse to accept the bloat they come with. There's plenty of new tech that doesn't have that, it just happens to look like the old tech that was perfectly suitable for us.
