AceTKen

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[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 8 points 21 hours ago

Number 7 would allow the province to stack a court with internally politically motivated individuals instead of remaining impartial. Basically you would let Danielle Smith stack the court to do whatever she wanted instead of having to run it by people that would keep her in check.

Number 8 may not be bad if you don't have a completely biased small group picking and choosing what they pass whenever they feel like it. There would be no way for us to know until they built the new system, but I'm betting it wouldn't be good. Yes they could make it better, but from everything I've seen this group is not interested in making things better for normal people.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Josh from GMM says "Hi."

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Heh, it's probably on me. I was just test driving it. I have no doubt I could have figured it out if I had spent more time.

It was just the HDMI audio from a standard Intel 14th gen processor. Didn't feel it was anything too out of the ordinary, but have tried about 6 releases over 3 distros and not a one has worked.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Well, if you're looking for an actual answer... I couldn't get audio working on Linux on my laptop. I had to switch back in order to watch movies.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

So they're going to take in literal bullshit so they can spit out more bullshit? Fitting.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh I obviously understand that there are multiple (if not dozens of) maps, but how many times are you expected to play those maps over and over again? Without plot progression, I just don't find it interesting.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 157 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (24 children)

I don't play multiplayer games anymore.

First off, they always seem to enable the worst of game companies trying to financially ruin their players.

Second off, I'm in my 40s and my reaction time isn't what it was when I used to play UT or Quake. You can't improve an aged reaction time nearly as easily, yes, because it's gotten slightly worse with age, but also because you become less willing and / or able to dedicate the sheer volume of time that you would need to to improve. Getting repeatedly stomped isn't fun, and quite simply, I've got better and more important things to do.

Third off, I don't like the constant recycling of content that you see in multiplayer games. A handful of maps are expected to last you infinite plays. I like changes of scenery, storylines, and varied experiences. Doing the same thing over and over again is just boring.

Fourth off, player communities in some games are aggressively dogshit and I really don't want to interact with them at all.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Economist here. This is pretty much the anti-intellectualism that everyone here is talking about and this is the opinion I've seen constantly on Lemmy.

Most people have no idea what it is that I do and think it's something to do with making billionaires more money. It isn't and it never has been and it hasn't been for anyone that I've kept in contact with from any of my classes.

You don't have to be involved in financial matters to be an economist either. We're more involved in finding out root causes and impacts in certain fields.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I hear the renter is obsessed with tacky gold bullshit as well.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

Just make their middle name Duck and you are golden.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

My wife and I watched this last week. It very much felt like something that Meow Wolf would put on. The story sort of falls apart about three quarters of the way through though and it winds up going nowhere which was unfortunate.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Reminded me of This. I fully agree with you and the video.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by AceTKen@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
 

I'm requesting assistance to draft an email to our city council here in small-city-near-a-big-city Canada to help them decide to not allow an AI datacenter to be built. They said they won't read a big long letter with citations and everything which is sort of unfortunate, because it's what I had prepared, but I feel I've got to write something.

Is there a list of punchy and true reasons why a small community would absolutely not want one of these things up in Canada here in a short form? My habit of over-writing things will only hurt, so it needs to make sense to people only barely tech-literate. This is why I need help.

Background: I run a medium-sized IT firm and am very familiar with how they operate and what they entail. In fact, my company was selected to help implement the center until we saw the plans and the future scale (more than 10x) with the lack of care they envisioned and chose to back out completely.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

 

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...

 

I tend to browse /All and by New on Lemmy. I went to respond on a thread on !vegan@lemmy.world to thank someone for a recipe that looked good, and found out I had been banned.

Odd, considering I hadn't posted to that sub at any point in the past. I checked the modlog to find that "Mod" had banned a bunch of people citing "Rule 5."

Their Rule 5 states: Bad-faith carnist rhetoric & anti-veganism are not allowed, as this is not a space to debate the merits of veganism. Anyone is welcome here, however, and so good-faith efforts to ask questions about veganism may be given their own weekly stickied post in the future (see current stickied discussion).

I (and hundreds of others) seemingly broke rule 5 of this community without ever posting there. What is going on?

And my apologies if this isn't the place for this, but I had no idea where else to post the question.

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