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.

Best 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?

I'm all for more accountability, but it's still better than human driving. Cutting human car deaths in half in exchange for murky accountability is clearly a worthwhile trade.