I like that your useless account doesn't even have the apostrophe in its name. It's odd to me you spend time doing this. It's no tits shouldn't waste time correcting it's and its!

"Of course I'm aware of the legal reality of content ownership"

How did you read this sentence then not get the implication he meant 'own a license than can be revoked' when he then used the word own? This is lemmy, everyone knows that implication for digital "ownership"

A pandemic is an epidemic (rapidly spreading disease/virus) that's spread to multiple countries, meaning a pandemic can be caused by any infectious thing that spreads its shit. Plague is just sickness caused by a bacteria called yersinia pestis!

Edit: to add to the plague thing - we call pandemics plagues because of the fun times in medieval Europe when the plague caused a pandemic

Maybe try downloading a slightly older version, i had the same issue with a specific update around 4.5ish and downgrading fixed it!