Looking at the Patreon and LiberaPay linked on the join-lemmy page it's >$600 a week. Still not a lot.

Yes. There are innumerable topics and interests that don’t have a robust presence on Lemmy yet because the platform is just too small and niche. Lemmy is great for tech and tech-adjacent stuff but I still wander back to Reddit from time to time for sports, for instance.

Honestly the biggest long term threat to Lemmy is its technology not being able to keep up with its own success. Issues like bad moderation tools, spam, and fractured communities need to be addressed within the software platform itself.

Pop Culture Detective is great, for the most part.

This looks absolutely wonderful. My only mild concern is whether the badges & wacky wonder effects will be able to gel into one cohesive game (instead of just a parade of novelties and things that lose their luster), but reading about the long dev cycle of the game gives me more hope that all of the mechanics have a purpose.

OSM is a lot dodgier in the US - and it doesn't have live traffic, which is crucial in some cities.

I agree, I don’t buy WD drives any more. But I don’t want to replace the ones I already have unless it’s necessary.

So far these issues only apply to these specific SSDs ... fingers crossed it stays that way, because like you I've got a number of WD HDDs in my life.

You can fix this with StartAllBack:

https://www.startallback.com/

There are mountains of software and hardware that aren’t compatible with Linux.

And when it’s mission critical or work related stuff you can’t afford to mess around with translation layers or virtualization.

The bloatware sucks but it takes <30 minutes after install to remove / disable all of it.

Maybe I’m just lucky, but I have not experienced Windows 10 or 11 getting slower with time at all.