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I've had middling results using "Lemmy Fediverse" in search strings instead of just "Lemmy". You still get a lot of Motorhead though.

I figured that shit out when I was 12 and there were way less learning resources about it on the internet then. Fuck 'em. Someone who never has to solve their own problems without handholding is someone who will never learn to solve problems, period. IPad kids are scared of error messages and that's their problem. They've never had to troubleshoot anything before.

Though I can't blame the kids entirely. Most error messages in the modern era absolutely suck nuts. Half of them nowadays (at least on the client side) are just

"oopsie, there's been a widdle fucky wucky, sooorrrrryyyyy 💖"

With zero actionable info in it. Not even a distinction of You/We/Your ISP Has Fucked Something Up. I guess they figured (correctly) that the end user wasn't going to read it anyway so why bother, but this drives me nuts when I see it.

Wrangling my Nvidia drivers into Mint also took a couple hours for me but I haven't had problems afterward

Depends heavily on your definitions of "worked" and "well"

That is not a reasonable bar by which to judge any living human being.

You might deserve it, I'm pretty confident saying the trans kids and legal immigrants who are being disappeared off the streets probably don't.

QAnon was the precursor to MAGA. It depended on stories of "deep state conspiracy" to sow distrust in the functional parts of US government, then quietly disappeared once its function was performed.

All this to say, it was a blindingly obvious psy-op that rolled up as many idiots as it could into one giant katamari ball of civil unrest, then loosed that ball toward US elections in a specific effort to remove Democrats from power.

BRC is an incredible replacement though. It's not quite the same as OG Jet Set Radio, and I think that's okay, but it is very clearly walking around with JSR's bones inside. Besides which it has probably my favorite video game soundtrack from the past decade.

Have you looked around outside recently?

I use "We'll burn that bridge when we come to it" pretty frequently myself

Not really. This is another thing that falls neatly into Boots Theory.

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.

A new car, well taken care of, will support a driver for a decade or more. A used car, especially a cheap used car, will have problems you don't know about and you can safely assume the previous owner did not properly care for it if not outright abused it, that will be true more often than it isn't.