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I have no access and, it seems, neither does local IT. Yay.

At the moment i'm getting mount error(13): Permission denied at the new vm (where i was attempting to mount).
dmesg has

[ 9254.003440] CIFS: Attempting to mount \\10.10.10.10\dir\\dir2
[ 9254.181314] CIFS: Status code returned 0xc000006d STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
[ 9254.181333] CIFS: VFS: \\10.10.10.10 Send error in SessSetup = -13
[ 9254.181367] CIFS: VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13

Attempting to ls the share in the other vm where it was previously working yields Host is down.
(Everyone else can access the share just fine.)

instead of taking responsibility

This is why, they prefer to shift the blame in case it hits the fan. That's all, that's it.
They don't care about code quality, maintainability or whatever.

As it's usually the case.

Swiss-based Proton? Wtf? One less reason to switch from Tuta.

that it knows about.

TIL

From my searching around for something similar, these showed up the most: TinyCore, Puppy, Porteus, Absolute, antiX (there's more).

Somehow i doubt this'll affect anyone with "manager", "head", "chief" or "officer" in the name...

Could you link or explain where you got this information?

Common sense. The instance admin deletes the instance (or your posts) 'cos the coffee was bad this morning... there goes "your property".
Obviously orders of magnitude better than commercial social media but it's no silver bullet either.
There, 3 lines.

SP3

Too lazy to bother with proper research, but considering how big these companies are, asking your favorite LLM How many people work at Meta and Amazon combined? will yield about 1.5M people (+/- the usual yearly thousands of layofss/new hires).

Lack of search is my biggest gripe with Mastodon.

I follow hashtags, it's how i discover interesting content for me. I only use the search function to follow specific accounts.