rationalData

My grandparents got iPhones (during COVID) because they were supposed to be easy.

Wow, that's just the marketing.

The jargon was outside their understanding, and unless we were physically looking at the phone, we couldn't guess what word in the Appstore meant Download.

And it got worse, the requests/requirement to login with Apple ID on various occasions were frustrating.

And from a tech geek, I had a work IPhone where I struggled to change settings and found annoyances with bugs.

I think the most important reason to reduce consumption is due to everything being carefully curated.

Actual issues from a particular fruit company like the butterfly keyboard was cause of getting flagged, you weren't allowed to talk about it. Similar problems happen to this day.

It's literally statistics applied to data.

If your data is good and you can fit it to a model it will work.

The problem is that data is often poor and the idealized models don't fit real world conditions so you can have problems like overfitting.

As an fdroid user, this is laughable.

Any contributors here? Thank you for making the world a better place. It's inspiring!

It was 2019

The only way I can see that being possible is if you got a stock option and survived long enough for it to vest.

But that's extremely high risk to take a 30-50k pay cut and move from highly affordable Michigan to Cali. All to bet it on stocks.

Source- 2017 recruiter was offering 80k, I was making 120k(40hr/week). Bonus points for the recruiter harassing me multiple times about "not changing the world" until I finally told him that I need to hang up.

This doesn't work in the medical field. Physicians are the wealthy king's and every layer under asks for permission.

A high school grad may be vaguely aware of this, but the reality is that many people choose to be a nurse and find out later the realities of the job.

There's no research, there is little growth. You don't get to change your job. Your title is exactly what you do.

Same story for the various lab techs.

As someone who left paycheck to paycheck life, I do struggle to emphasize with the paycheck to paycheck class.

I didn't buy luxuries like alcohol or fast food, I didn't even have enough money for that.

But this class would find a way to go on vacation, buy juice, and get takeout.

I'm long gone from that problem but I'm still frugal.

Until that class stops buying needless luxuries, I do struggle to emphasize.