Gee what happens when fully grown adults who have problems distinguishing between make-believe and reality, take hallucinogenic substances?

aider is better (or will be once its MCP server is merged)

$ gsettings get org.gnome.shell enabled-extensions 
['apps-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com', 'window-list@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com', 'gtktitlebar@velitasali.github.io']

I can’t believe apps-menu and window-list are not the default behaviors. gtktitlebar is just so I can claw back a few precious pixels of vertical screen space.

I’d echo this. Syncthing is widely used because it Just Works in so many weird situations. So if it is Not Working, swapping out Syncthing might actually make the problem harder to solve.

WTF is a smart guy like Carmack doing on a disinfo wasteland llike X

If you are not familiar with Stanislaw Lem’s short story “Eruntics”, it is very much worth your while. The concept is vaguely related. Someone posted a fairly high effort amateur video rendition a couple years ago: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LkST-_ktCKU