Sure! If you tell me a little bit about your tastes and interests I’ll probably be able to throw something at you that you may or may not have seen before, but probably do like!

What are some of your favourite movies, games, books etc? What are some of your hobbies and interests? What subject(s) lights a flame in you and makes you passionate? Could be anything from entertainment, to career to lifestyle etc. I don’t need much more than the broad strokes and only share what you’re comfortable with, of course. Then I’ll look through my letterboxd and see what I can find. Haven’t watched every movie ever - far from it, but have watched quite a lot of films and know random shit about many films I have never seen as well. Some genres I’m more well versed in than others, but can probably still point you in some kind of direction that will work for you. 😊

Most areas where I excell are largely useless to the general public, but if ever you’re in need of a you-tailored list of movie recommendations, hit me up. I have a pretty good track record of recommending movies to people.

I work in a completely different field, but you last paragraph mostly sounds to me like a typical young person entering the job market. There is this false sense og confidence, pride and know it all when graduating. I’ve just seen it a few too many times and I remember how confident and skilled I thought I was when I got out. At the same time, there’s some anxiety and fear of doing a bad job and admitting fault may make you seem weak or unskilled and you want to impress the mentors and blah blah blah.

It is a bit funny to remember how I thought I was going to be helpful to colleagues who were way more experienced than me and then years later I’m being talked at by soon to be graduates who are trying to be helpful by sharing tips with me that I already do on the daily or don’t do because I learned years ago they don’t work. And when I try to give them advice or instructions it’s like they just space out and hear what they think I mean and then do something completely different from what I ask of them, haha. I can’t be mad at it, because it’s just a part of learning and growing into your career. I think it would be a mistake to think that a newly graduated person in any field will be able to hit the ground running without any hiccups.

Maybe I’m just a bit of a softie when it comes to young people, but I just remember how eager I was when I was in their shoes and how incorrect my assumptions were when it came to what my elders expected of me. It all came gradually as I learned how to be a professional and how to solve tasks and find my rhythm. I imagine new generations on the market can’t be much different from myself in that regard. 😊

Don’t worry, my fair tech-literate maiden. I, a tech-dyslexic, am here to bring down the collective IQ and make the chamber echo less. You can thank me later, for adding some much needed intellectual diversity to the mix.

I mean, I don’t get the love for Apple either, I just didn’t agree with the claim that all iPhone users were the types to discard a perfectly good phone for a new one 2 years later just because the new one was cooler.

The fact that someone can buy a new iPhone after having had an old one crash due to updates is their own prerogative.

I personally have a very low understanding of tech, but to me, it just seems like an industry standard to make phones that won’t live forever. Everybody does it. They could have given us phones with batteries that never wear out. They could have designed the tech to make sure it would work on all phones. They could halt tech evolution to make sure that no phone is left behind. But none of them do.

I originally wanted a button phone after my prior smartphone died. Then my government decided to force a new ID system on its citizens and make it exceedingly annoying and difficult to function in society without a smartphone. So I had to cave and get myself a new smartphone and wave goodbye to button phones forever.

I don’t know how long this phone will last me, but I hope it will survive ten years at the very least. Even though it isn’t an iPhone I avoid updates for as long as the phone allows me to because I don’t want to wake up one day and suddenly have a phone that doesn’t work.

We are all being scammed to some extent. Not just iPhone users.

That would be awesome, ngl. Maybe someday. I’m pretty sure that if a company started selling itself as a build a phone-company they would become quite successful very quickly. If I had the knowhow, I would straight up try and see if this idea has legs.

If phones were built to last and something you would only buy once every 10ish years, I think we would all be better for it. I also think buying a phone from new would mean something different than it does in today’s consumer culture. It would be way cheaper longterm for everybody as well.

The used phone market only exists because of the current buy and throw away culture we live in.

Not really. I know a few iPhone users who have kept their phones for a long time. The most impressive case was a guy who had had the same phone for 11 years and only had to buy a new one because an update fried the old one.

Honestly, the only thing I care about when it comes to what other people do regarding phone purchases, is that that they at the very fucking least use their old phone until it breaks and don’t just go out and buy a new phone every two years because they want something new and shiny. People who do that low key disgust me.

I can get an AI to generate some code for me. Now I’m a programmer despite never having done code in my life, nor do I understand the first thing about what goes into coding.

Oh, or how about I get it to generate law stuff for me and I call myself a lawyer?

Generating papers on medical or psychology stuff and now I’m practically a doctor or a psychologist.

The way I see it, AI can be a useful tool that can help optimizing processes, but to use them as a replacement of real work and effort is a mistake at best and incredibly lazy and delusional at worst.

That story legit changed how I looked at life.

You’re right. Those who scam everybody else get to really benefit from crypto. Much like MLMs.

Crypto is to peacocking men what MLMs is to american housemoms.