I’ll go with the actual unpopular opinion.

I would love to use an AI to set up what sort of woman I’m interested in, topics it can discuss and whatnot. Then let it swipe for me, start and maintain some short conversations in my writing style. It could notify when it’s time to ask the person out on a date and from there on I could take over the conversation.

It’s dystopian for sure, but getting a date is basically just a numbers game. Would love getting to skip actually doing that part…

Sure. But regardless, I used to work as a teacher. 15 weeks of vacation yearly, great pay (for Sweden at least). Worked about 32h every week.

I’m much happier today with much less vacation, longer hours and a bit worse pay (though it’ll get much better with time). Because I actually like my job. And I get to work on skills that I have use for in my free time as well.

It does not have to be all about getting paid as much and working as little as possible. Finding a good employer and a career you like is also an option.

We are talking about a get together once or twice a year here. That is very much something that is not only beneficial for extroverts, but also most introverts. The extremities between these often get a bit absurd when discussing. Studies show the happiness level of introverts increasing after social gatherings as well.

Not saying it should happen daily or even weekly. But yearly? That should not be a problem for anyone.

I felt like this a couple of years ago, then I went and changed both job and career. Suddenly I find myself actually enjoying what I do, as well as my colleagues.

A job is definitely transactional, but seeing as most of us spend 8h a day on them. I’d urge ya’ll to - if possible - try and find one where you can find some pride and value in what you do, other than the paycheck you receive.

It has improved all parts of my life in all honesty.

Why wouldn’t you be able to create relationships with your colleagues just because you hate your workplace? The worst places I’ve worked at, have had the absolute strongest relationships between the people working there. Because it’s basically been a necessity to survive the workday.

Your colleagues might hate it as much as you do. That can be something to find comfort in. And you’ll obviously never care about someone you don’t know. Perhaps you might actually start caring about a colleague or two, if you do get to know them.

Yeah. Even the largest leagues and teams are basically impossible to follow on anything but Reddit and Twitter. For smaller teams? Nothing else exists…

It is however people that in very high degree support their president.

Some happy news then, it seems like Memmy is being developed again. Was picked up again 6 days ago. Though, from what it looks like, it’s a rather major rework. So could take some time. But gkasdorf has put in a lot of work.

Time helps us get through pain, even though it often leaves a mark. For me, changing how I think about things has really made a difference.

It’s great to feel good, but I don’t think that needs to be the main goal of life. I try to see life as a gift where feeling all kinds of emotions is a valuable part. I hope everyone gets to feel the incredible joy of being in love and the comfort of a happy relationship, but also knows what it’s like to go through a heartbreak… Because going through different feelings, good or bad, adds so much to our lives.

Heartbreak gives us strength and empathy, happiness gives us beautiful memories, and love? Love is that quiet, steady thing that makes all the tough parts worth it. So I try to welcome every feeling, every moment, and every experience, because together, they make up our unique, stories.

No one is saying they shouldn’t be allowed to run ads. But that they should be allowed to run highly specific and targeted ads is not by any means a forgone conclusion.

Television, newspapers, ads out in the “wild” and whatnot. All manage without individualizing ads. And Facebook could as well. But it’s more profitable to say to hell with our users privacy, let’s individualize the shit out of those ads.

That’s the problem.

Avalon works fine for me, and was updated just a couple of days ago. Voyager works good as well, though not as frequently updated lately.

The show Mr. Robot did that, they used real 0-day exploits for their hacking scenes!

So much this.

People want more “real world usage” in college and school overall. Teach kids how to do taxes, teach engineers how to use X and Y software.

Well, in 10 years there’s a new software that does your taxes in another way, and plenty of laws have changed and there are new stuff to consider. And those software the engineers were taught, they are obsolete.

That’s why focus should be on getting people to a place where they themselves can acquire the skills needed to do those things by themselves.

Hadn’t I been on Lemmy I wouldn’t have known there are people still using cables to transfer stuff from/to their phone.

Haven’t done that in 10 years, and deeply hope I’ll never have to start doing that again either.

Programming.

I don’t do it as much as a hobby anymore. But that’s because I switched careers and do it all day for work nowadays!

Cool.

Yes, the person did take that into account. That was the whole point. If leather can’t be sold, meat prices will have to become higher (if farmers are not to get less money per cow). This will lower demand for meat, and less cattle will be raised.

Yeah, people who’ve had iPhones for 10 years and never noticed lack of ram, probably do not know what they are looking for.

It was extremely common a couple of years back for apps to close down every time you switched app due to low amounts of ram. It’s much better today though. But definitely noticeable if you stay on a phone to long of a time.

They spoke usb-c like a minute, two tops. While speaking of the environment for a good fifteen.

What you describe did not happen, at all.

Not that it’s much of a benefit today as RTS games are barely nonexistent. But StarCraft 2 taught me all about macro management. Spending them resources and building an economy.