I just switched when the API nonsense shat all over the actually good reddit apps, since I primarily used reddit on my phone.

I saw lemmy touted as an alternative and figured why not?

Dad fell for a Microsoft key scam. They were calling him about invalid registration or something. Kept asking for £500.

Stopped calling after my infuriated sister, who was living with our parents at the time, basically bullied the shit out of them on the phone.

I’m not sure about other places, but in mod comments on Nexus it’s fairly standard to just reply in your native language and have the other person translate.

You’ll often see discussions with one half in English and the other in Chinese, for example.

Ah, this is something I genuinely didn’t consider.

I suppose it’d be better to pick up the games I’m interested in on GoG and play them on PC?

He doesn’t want turbines because oil companies paid him $75 million to promote their interests.

Probably influenced by the enormous amount of money oil barons spent on him, of which they almost certainly did with an expectation of return on investment.

His desire to “Drill baby drill!” and relax restrictions on oil drilling—including drilling into a wilderness reserve previously uninterrupted by man—and his apparent distaste for EVs and green energy, makes it pretty obvious whose hand has firmly lodged itself right up his arsehole.

The man needs oil to sell to please his owners, and belligerently trying to force the EU to increase their purchases is just another one of his hare-brained schemes.