Same, I use World and in the Boost app I just select all or subscribed instead of local and I definitely still see the piracy community that I’m subscribed to 🤷♂️
Same, I signed up to Lemmy.world and have been on here for probably a good 4-5 months. If you browse the federated network instead of just your local server it doesn’t matter what server you use AFAIK.
Yeah it was a massive relief! I’m always willing to help and share all of the knowledge I’ve gained over the years, gotta make use of it somehow! Back when I was your age I felt the same way, I was part of a private hacking/security community and dudes would spout out stuff about Linux, Windows, and network tech that I had no idea about and I was always thinking “I aim to be like you some day” 😊
Yeah, you run into common (or uncommon but repeatable) errors often that you’re either like “I know exactly how to handle this” or “I remember running into this before but just need to jog my memory real quick…”
I had a similar odd issue with my HDDs. I had 20 HDDs in my system of various ages, and they would seemingly randomly throw shit tons of R/W checksum errors and drop out of its assigned zpool. It was almost never the same drive. SMART said the drive was perfectly fine. It would happen on brand new drives I got a week ago and drives that were years old. I swapped power cables, SATA/SAS controllers (three different HBAs and 3 onboard controllers) and cables, bought a UPS, etc… and nothing seemed to work. I didn’t think it was a PSU issue since I had a 1.5 KW PSU and my Kill-A-Watt meter was only showing about 600w at full load. This took literal months of troubleshooting. Someone on Reddit finally suggested trying another PSU or limiting the amount of drives attached to the PSU. I bought a cheap 400w PSU and connected about 8 drives to that… and all the errors stopped.
It turns out that there wasn’t enough power supplied on the 5v rails to write the data without errors 100% of the time, but it had enough power supplied on the 12v rail to spin all the motors. First time in 25 years I’d ever seen that, but that was also the first time I’ve ever had like 20 drives connected to one PSU. I was literally about to throw in the towel because drives dropped out on a daily basis, but after like 2 or 3 total dropped no more usually failed.
I dropped acid and watched it when I was peaking, since the first one was great, and then was majorly disappointed that I couldn’t continue the story and there isn’t a release date yet.
I’ve never seen an error that just says “bad platform”.
Fixing computer problems is essentially just being good at searching for stuff related to your problem. For example in your problem it would just be googling “Linux bad platform ≤name of game>” and guaranteed someone else has had the same problem and either them or someone else has figured out a fix for it. You then apply that fix, if that doesn’t work, try the next result. If it gives you a new problem, rinse and repeat.
Look up the XKCD comic about fixing a computer, that’s literally how we do it. My dad asked me a similar question to yours, I literally printed out the comic and taped it next to the computer and said “this is what I do”.
About 2 years ago (I’ve been working from home for the past 3 years, a week here or there was spent at my parents), years after I had printed out that comic, he said “I just realized that your job is essentially knowing how to look for the information you need and how to apply it when you find it”. He’s an electrician, so not really the same set of skills haha.