I’m 26, used Reddit for a long time, but the primary way I came to find out about Lemmy was because I was already on Mastodon and a fediverse enthusiast. I was here before the API scandal.

I used it the last time I travelled, it worked just fine, and I assumed it did the regular amount of data harvesting my daily phone and internet service providers do.

The issue I had with my previous Lenovo Thinkpad wasn’t that it wasn’t repairable when it broke, it was. The issue was that the cost of just replacing the keyboard was prohibitively high. Higher than the cost of a new laptop. So it became e-waste.