this article helped me figure it out: https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020871157-Solving-a-MetaMask-connection-issue-?support=true
also, to that retarded article saying that tomb is a parasite on ftm - I guess that means FTM is a parasite on ETH? Or that AVAX is a parasite on FTM? Or that ETH is a parasit...