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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by AceTKen@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.world

Not sure if this is the right place for it, but would anyone be interested in assisting an MSP in helping refine our Linux Stack?

Our goal is to take companies that are currently using a Windows stack and move them over without too much retraining on the user's part.

Our current stack is Linux Mint, LibreOffice, a custom RMM agent, and a few bits and bobs that differ per client, but that's all malleable. We have a stack, I'm just interested in anything that may make it better. Of note, we donate to FOSS monthly for roughly the licensing fees of the non-FOSS alternative that the clients would be using.

EDIT: Further info for some incredibly hostile replies who are seeking to purposely get offended...

As an MSP, the monthly client fee remains the same regardless of if the clients are on Linux, MacOS, or Windows. I assure you, we're not winning new converts with Linux and hoping to capture some untapped market. This isn't a money-maker. We are avoiding e-waste and upcycling machines for free on our own dime. If the client doesn't want to convert, we donate the systems when they are discarded to one of the nonprofits we support for free. Again, switching clients to Linux wouldn't make us any money as we don't bill for project fees. If anything it would make us less money because we're not trying to sell new objects to the client and are signing ourselves up to train and deploy to them. There's no sneaky evil hidden agenda here.

I was never looking for someone to design the entire implementation, just one or two comments saying something to the tune of "X distro / software is easier for newbies, take a look!" or something.

[-] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If on the web (not a mobile client), you can click the three dots with the arrow pointing down under any post (including yours) and hit "NAME Moderation History". It'll show you what mod actions have been taken on you.

[-] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't understand the thought process here. Like many, I don't browse Communities individually, I browse /All and sort by New.

So I am required to see something I like and upvote or else I am not allowed to an express an opinion in the community (or any tangentially linked community)?

If I see something I don't like (which is what the voting system is for), I should go to the Community it's posted in and make sure to upvote things before I downvote? That's the expected order of operations?

If not... what if, while browsing /All /New nothing randomly appears that the viewer likes enough to upvote? Is that then somehow the fault of the viewer and they should then be banned?

Am I interpreting your rulings correctly? 4 downvotes in the span of 10 months (judging by the times on those posts you listed) is a bannable offence? Seems rather heavy-handed to me.

[-] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't make it a habit of downvoting images simply because they're AI-gen, but there are well-done ones and horrible ones just like any images. Do they really ban for simply downvoting ANY AI image? That's... kind of a lot.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by AceTKen@lemmy.ca to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Was recently banned from a whole bunch of DB0 communities for, as best as I can gather, downvoting once when I viewed by All (potentially accidentally while scrolling).

Important notes:

  1. I don't use scripts.
  2. I don't mass-downvote Communities. If I see a post I generally don't like when browsing All, I may downvote one post, block the Community and move on.
  3. Some of the communities I was banned from don't have any posts in them so I wouldn't have been able to downvote anything.
  4. Of all of these Communities, in my history I downvoted one post in one of them. Voting in this manner is not vote manipulation. It's quite literally a feature of the platform and as a mod of another Community, I would consider it pretty good etiquette.
  5. One of my bans reads "Appeal Granted, not a brigading member" but I'm still banned.
  6. I don't troll.

WTF is going on here?

EDIT - Updated Info from the conversation below: In the initial image, you can see two "ban waves."

The 10 bans three months ago stem from a single downvote in one Community. It was @Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com See here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477

I was called out by name for a single downvote and culled from a score of Communities I did not participate in by them.

The other bans from two months ago are from four total downvotes over a 10-month timeframe in one Community.

I have also stated in this thread that I don't have issues with AI-gen images, but there are shoddy ones and well-done ones.

EDIT 2: Now unbanned from the ten Communities listed as "3 months ago" in my initial image, but have been banned from three more because of this thread with the reason given being "self-proclaimed anti-AI brigader" which are two things I didn't claim to be. God dammit Lemmy...

[-] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 41 points 5 months ago

Holy fuck, a protest that is actually targeting the people it should instead of just random bystanders that have nothing to do with it?

About time! Git 'em y'all!

[-] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 132 points 6 months ago

... Oh, it's treated wood? Never mind. RIP.

[-] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 45 points 10 months ago

For anyone looking, someone Archive.org'd the final Win x64 compiled version:

https://archive.org/download/ryujinx-1.1.1403-win_x64

[-] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 year ago

Hey, wake up! The new Clippy skin just dropped!

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#What do you want to talk about?

We're brand new, but I hope you'll have a word or two. Looking for mods who can write and love discussing a variety of topics!

[-] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 years ago

Because the post is shit maybe?

[-] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 years ago

Well that's a terrifying prospect if you have any sort of opinion outside of the groupthink.

[-] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 years ago

So since you're the one providing the labour in the transaction, this means you're getting a tip FROM the gas station, right? R... Right?

[-] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

After that most recent Saint's Row game, I can't say I'm surprised.

It felt like it was designed by Tumblr, sold on an unpopular platform (Epic), left out most of what was good from the previous entries, was attrociously buggy, and had deeply disappointing DLC.

Nobody wanted it and it felt designed by committee.

Like Blizzard, most of the talent that made them great to begin with wasn't there any more.

[-] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 50 points 2 years ago

Just eat it. The whole thing. One sitting.

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