I never ‘dated’ in the traditional sense of the word. When I started college, I was about 19 and met someone when I went on a trip with my study association and was in a relationship with her for 8 months. It was sort of love at first sight.

After that I would meet people through my study association which was all fine but never really turned up anything serious.

The day I met my wife, I just got out of the relationship I mentioned before. It still took well over a year for us to start anything romantic. We were just okay friends, although at some point she started hanging out at my house more and more so that also kind of just happened.

I don’t regret not having to go through all the dating things. It might have been nice to meet some more new people, but I’ve always lacked confidence in these situations so I’m not sure I’d be at all comfortable with it either. If there is no click right away, might as well call it a day and stop wasting time.

Calling it a multi billion dollar project is factually correct but quite the understatement

I haven’t spent more than €350 on a smartphone ever. There is absolutely no need. All I do with it is browse Lemmy and do some messaging, a potato could handle that. When I see all these new foldable phones or SoCs that can run an LLM by itself on 16GB RAM, I ask myself why would I even want that. I’m content with my Moto 50 edge neo. Mid-range SoC, plenty of RAM, 512GB ROM. There’s no way I’ll ever need more.

Plus it does Dolby Atmos, HDR, WiFi 6, gets plenty of updates, decent battery life and as close to stock Android as you could hope for these days.