As a dude, I wasn’t matching while I was swiping often. I’d swipe in the morning and then see what came up through the day.

They may have changed their apps in the… 10 or so years since I used them. But the premise is the same, the more you swipe right on the better the odds of matching someone that swipes right on you. Even if you don’t swipe right on everyone, be extremely generous on your swipes.

On essentially all of them, they went to a swipe right to like and a swipe left for no.

Except when actually trying to make a match, it’s more advantageous to literally swipe right on everyone to maximize matches and then unmatch if you match with someone you aren’t interested in.

But if you are swiping left, you will match with significantly fewer and potentially none. It becomes demoralizing. And it takes much longer to make a decision if you are looking at everyone including those that don’t match with you so you go through fewer people to potentially match with.

Wait until you match with someone to look at their pictures and their profile, and only then, decide whether to stay matched or unmatch.

I had quite a few short relationships from tinder and bumble. But some of those wouldn’t have happened if I were more picky at the swiping stage.

I have a set of Sony studio monitor headphones. I can hear more nuance and parts of the music I simply can’t hear in any of my ear buds or noise canceling headphones. They aren’t wireless, so I don’t really use them that often though.

It doesn’t matter the cable, the amp, shitty 128kbps mp3 or vinyl. I can hear much, much better with the drivers in them.

I’d say 90% of anything that matters is the driver. But past a certain midrange point, there just isn’t really much or any improvement.

A handful of sites that decide because I’m on Linux, I must be a bot and I’m blocked from opening sites.

The gendered single person bathroom. I never understood those.