I mean sicko in the in the Stan Kelly sense lol, did not mean to have you catch a stray

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sickos-haha-yes

You gotta be a real sicko to have the substack app installed and on top of that have their push notifications enabled

I don’t think anyone had any expectation they would given the past few years.

I think it could happen, but it would have to be a foss app and a paid service or funded by ads, because you need paid people to moderate services like that, moderation on lemmy is about civility and people being mean to eachother, but moderation on a dating app might involve dealing with sexual assault and other illegal things in a much more prominent way. Or it would have to be funded by a government or charity which is not very likely in the present.

that’s a high effort response, the reason I brought up the change of ownership was to highlight that the company now has a parent company so this person’s refund claims are bouncing all over the place from Canada to Sweden to China which would make it harder to pin down, the actual cars are still designed in Sweden so they are European cars even though a chinese company owns them, it would be like saying riot games is a chinese company although having a parent company has certainly affected the quality & direction of the cars

The whole system just fucked this person over. A European car brand gets bought by a Chinese company so there’s already much less accountability to this one customer than if they had bought an American car (I know they are Canadian, but still). And with the car dealership model in North America and a lot of the rest of the world, it’s not like the dealership can just switch the cars they sell, so they have no leverage to do anything other than close up shop and have dozens of people lose their jobs if the cars start getting crappier like Volvos have been. I think the moral of the story is if you live in North America, don’t buy European cars, it’s not worth it, just buy North American cars or Asian cars, you will have a much easier time getting them fixed and having your problems dealt with.

ext4 would be normal for linux and windows is usually formatted as ntfs, there’s nothing abnormal with the partitions if you were trying to do just mint, unless the install messed with something weird in the bios I can’t imagine why it wouldn’t boot if you erased the drive while installing mint only, the installation should select that partition to boot without you having to do anything extra

Can you load in to the live usb for mint and see what it looks like when you open gparted? When you reinstalled did you select erase the whole drive or another option?

Here are two videos on clean installing either ubuntu and windows just in case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP03Y-l9NOM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOoyem2xOyc

Even if you want to keep on dual booting you’ll have to get one installed first anyways.

often times if you had backed up any important files before doing this you are gonna waste less time by just doing a clean reinstall, but you can definitely try to troubleshoot fixing the boot

Caveat I have not hosted a lemmy instance but check this out

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html

there is also other methods listed, but docker compose tends to be pretty simple for hosting, hope it helps.