Are you sure it was a faulty drive? I had a similar experience where it got to having to reinstall windows every week, but switching to Linux fixed it.

Beat I can tell it was a mandatory windows update clashing with some of the hardware I had.

Unless I’m mistaken and something is different, this hasn’t been a problem for tools like newpipe, YouTube vanced, and fritter.

Thanks for explaining. So there’s no content being missed out on by joining just kbin or Lemmy right? Just a different interface and different “local” instance?