I had a feeling it was going to happen at any time. Back to KeePass it is! I was already considering this anyway, so all I needed was a little push.

I'm glad to be aware of FOSS alternatives nowadays for pretty much any service I use/require.

I would never pay these prices for a password manager (not even the initial price), specially considering my sensitive data would be sent to a 3rd party company through a closed source project which no one can verify.

Even using Bitwarden free (which admittedly I use for convenience) is not exactly comfortable to me, even being mostly open source. I'm constantly considering moving back to KeePass as I used to do some years ago.

OP issue with Ethernet might actually be related to Windows fast startup.

And other than that, the issue OP is facing is pretty much not knowing what to choose in a plethora of options. Installing most modern distros nowadays is pretty damn easy, specially if you're not trying to dual boot with Windows (which is also a Windows problem, not Linux).

And installing a Linux Distro does not require you to hack your way to bypass shit like TMP2 / CPU cutoff or an account creation, which are unnecessarily imposed by MS.

Out of curiosity I did some research, and the ones that seems to come closer to me aesthetically are 'Retro Interface' and 'Analog Sci-Fi UI', mixed with something like 'Dark Aero' (similar to PS3 UI).

It's probably not a single style, but a mixture of different ideas.

Edit: Actually not so much Analog Sci-Fi, but definitely something like Retro/CRT Interface + Dark Aero.

It might sound stupid, but turn off your PC, switch off the power supply, remove the power cable, wait for about 30-40 seconds, then plug the cable back, switch it on and power on your desktop.

It might be an issue caused by Windows fast startup. Even though you completely removed Windows, the power state might still be 'hanging' around and causing issues.

I think the main problem here, after all, is your ego. Despite your accounts and "your" "content" being deleted by different administrators of different Lemmy communities, and despite the community itself, in this very thread, telling you're wrong, you still act as if we all are a vocal minority of machiavellian Reddit secret agents working to destroy Lemmy.

It's not an honest debate if you're not ready to actually listen to criticism and do some self reflection. If all you do is to repeat these same severely flawed arguments over and over, then talking to you is like beating our head against a brick wall... it will do no good.

I don't start threads because I prefer to engage in conversations that are already happening. Writing a thoughtful, contextual reply takes infinitely more human effort than running a script that copy-pastes a Reddit headline.

We don't need millions of users spamming Reddit leftovers to attract 'native content'. If new users show up and find out that 80% of their feed is Reddit reposts, they won't see it as a good place to stay, they will see it as a sort of RSS feed to Reddit. And if they want to engage with Reddit's original content, they will go back to Reddit and discuss it there.

You say Reddit has excellent content and we just need to curate it, but your actions show the exact opposite… You clearly don't ask yourself (and neither does your automation script) if what you're about to repost is relevant to that specific community, or if it will add any value. And when the community admins stop you from spamming useless or valueless 'content', actually curating stuff, you get frustrated.

And no, I never said more users means lower quality content. I'm saying more activity is not the same as higher quality. These are two completely different statements. And no one is saying they don't want more content either (as you mentioned in quotation marks in your edit to OP). What I (and many others here) am saying is that we don't necessarily want more content, we want good content. Why is that so hard for you to understand?

And why do you think 'Lemmy' has the interest of having millions of users regurgitating the same low quality shit from Reddit? What do you think 'Lemmy' (the actual community administrators that banned your accounts and your 'content') would gain from it?

It works on Reddit because they literally make money out of it. They don't care about the quality of the content. Lemmy is the opposite: getting flooded/hammered by low content shit makes admins lose time and money, and it also make the whole community worse.

No thanks! I'd rather Lemmy/Piefed to grow organically than allowing non-credited 'oc' posts directly from Reddit or get it spammed with useless content.

I'm sorry to break it to you, but you're NOT doing Lemmy any favor. We (and I say 'we' because I firmly believe that's the opinion of most regular Lemmy/Piefed users) do NOT want it to become another Reddit. We want it to be better than Reddit.

And being a 'more active' community is not necessarily a good thing.

Also, the 'quadruple' moderation you described is literally an intended characteristic of the federation. You might not see it as a good thing, because your account is basically an (unflagged) spamming bot account, and that's exactly what Lemmy wants to avoid.

Have you tried using JDownloader? Copy paste the URL to it, and see if it can scan and find the video. Not sure if that would work, but there's a good chance.

If it doesn't work, try yt-dlp.

It was much better. I wouldn't say it is anymore though. Fundamentally they're different beasts: facebook/instagram/tiktok/x are focused on personal interactions while reddit is based on topical interests.

I much prefer the less personal and more collaborative nature of a social platform like reddit than the personal nature of most popular social media, but unfortunately, when it comes to predatory business practices, reddit, instagram, facebook, x, tiktok, etc. are all the same shit now.

I don't really like Gnome as a desktop interface. Not sure why but never really adapted well to it.

Love KDE and Cinnamon though. Probably because I was used to Windows interface for years before I started using Linux.