Thanks for working on this!

Yeah, that’s what it’s looking like. It’s a bit concerning because the Lemmy devs didn’t have to do it that way. They could just mark content as deleted and then zero-out all the fields to default values. I wonder what their reasoning was for not doing it that way.

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Yes, but I’m wondering what the expected behavior is.

I’m going to delete this comment.

Will do.

Yes, but I want to know what the code actually says, and I probably can’t figure it out for myself, so I’m asking.

We’ll find a way. Right now, I’m mostly concerned about cars. That’s going to be an interesting problem over the next few years.

Not everything needs a law against it. I’m just not going to buy into their fucked up system.

And that’s why we use it.

I’ve wanted an EV for years, but I’m sticking with my very old and fuel-efficient ICE car until it’s absolutely dead. At that point, I’m hoping that some model of EV emerges as the most hackable one, like the Nissan Leaf. I’ll buy a very used one of those & hack it.

Bandcamp is the move.

Just pirate some of the things?

I’m not subscribing to anything. If I buy something, it’s fully functional, and it’s mine. There is no ongoing relationship between me and the manufacturer. Done.

I’m going to hop in here and suggest you try out Linux Mint. This is a distro designed for people who are coming over from Windows or Mac. It “just works”. The UI doesn’t throw away thrity years of convention simply to be “linux”. Everything is exactly where you expect it to be and most of what you need is already installed.
Mint offers a choice of different desktop environments which are all laid out exactly the same, but have differing degrees of polish. If you’re using a very old PC, you may want to choose XFCE because it is very lean, but lacks some of the nice graphical touches. Most people just use the Cinnamon desktop environment, which is highly customizable and polished.
I fully switched to Mint many years ago and never looked back.