I might actually end up disabling swap in the end. I wanted to update that apparently I “fixed” the problem (not sure if permanently) by turning off the pc, unplugging the PSU, and holding down the power button for 30 seconds. Normal reboots weren’t enough. I’ll take it for now.

Haha, same here! I was so proud I knew what the title was referring to before reading the post. Lol

LMAO I just don’t want to encourage people to open the sketchiest .exe they find online without a second thought

You shouldn’t grant an executable admin privileges if you’re not sure what it does.

I’ve just finally caved in and visited lemmygrad for the first time and oh, boy! I’ve heard the sound of my grey matter atrophy

What about The Internet Archive? Search engines cache? Copies made by other people? etc.

This is a public platform; don’t share things you don’t want to be shared. You can’t truly expect anything being deleted forever everywhere.

I don’t understand this question. This is a public platform, there are no secret messages or info. What do you mean by privacy? Hide what from whom?

yes!

lemmy.world in particular doesn’t block any instances

see for comparison:

https://lemmy.world/instances

https://lemmy.ml/instances

https://beehaw.org/instances

No one is saying that the US is good though.

Exactly because of what you said in your last paragraph, some don’t want to use an instance run by people with a certain political agenda.