I got engaged and travelled across the Atlantic to be with someone I met on irc

I used to use aptoide for piracy many years ago. I guess that’s not a thing anymore?

A DNS blocker like pihole, nextdns, adguard etc might help with that.

American internet prices are wild.

Op isn’t on lemmy.world

https://phtn.app/

Yeah I found a guide on how to replace it and bought a part, it’s a massive hassle but doable (you basically need to take apart the entire laptop).

USB C PD charger

not ideal since W541 doesn’t have a USB C port (it has 3.0) but I have considered this. I assume all I’d need is a USB C to USB 3 adapter for this to work.

This is not entirely correct. lemmy.world hasn’t defederated from dbzer0, but it has blocked it’s largest piracy community.

I’ve heard a lot of people report this, it’s definitely an issue.

That’s also how IRC works and most chat platforms are heavily inspired by IRC, unless you use a program (bouncer) that kept you online 24/7. I assume there must be something similar for Matrix

One of many reasons people left IRC for Discord.

Your instance is federated with those instances, so you see his content. Thats really all there is too it. He was able to comment since world is back up now

You’re on sh.itjust.works

This community is hosted on lemmy.world, but it doesn’t disappear if lemmy.world goes down.

You can access all your lemmy.world communities from sh.itjust.works, it doesn’t really matter if it has much locally.

Only issue is it’s hot feed seems bugged

lemmy.world is bugged right now. What I did is backed up my account subscriptions/settings and imported it over to sh.itjust.works. You may need to try a few times (it’ll tell you when it’s successful).