I had a nice little profile on there until about a month ago. I didn’t delete when I saw AI spammers join. And I kept my profile even when the mods were starting to become reddit-ish. What sent me over the edge was when they announced a partnership with an AI company who said they were “just there to beef up security”. Yeah, no, not for me. Super sad, too, because Bluesky is a good idea, but I’m sticking with the fediverse.

Will have to try this. Been getting the same issues but didn’t think to check VPN.

Edit: Looks like that did it. Thanks for the tip!

I second this. I’m into gaming and dev, so I went with the Framework 16 amd got the extender for the graphics card. These are amazing machines and work with linux out of the box. Also modular, which was a requirement for me. Good luck searching!