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Generally, and I can only speak for myself, but GENERALLY, the way it works is someone takes offense at your comment and reports it.

That report goes to the mods of that community along with the Admins of your instance, in your case programming.dev.

Any action taken by the mods or admins is then recorded in the modlog.

In your case, you got a 3 day ban:

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=7110660

“Rule 1 - No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.”

And, yeah, your comment hits that rule. I would have removed it from my communities as well.

Ban-worthy? Not for a single comment for ME at least. If it looked like you were engaging in a pattern of behavior or trolling, then yeah, that’s a ban.

I have a SUSPICION… but let me confirm…

Yeah… here’s the deal, mods are human and make mistakes. There are a couple of us who mod both Politics and World News and it gets confusing some times.

For example, both groups have a “Civility” rule, but one of them it’s rule 3 and the other it’s rule 5.

Lord knows I’ve done the whole:

“Removed, Rule 5 - keep it civil.”

Followed by “WTF, rule 5 isn’t ‘civility’!”

I’ve taken now to having multiple tabs open and going “Wait, which community is this again?”

In THIS case, World News has this rule:

“Recent (Past 30 Days)”

Which makes sense for a News community, if it aint “New”, it’s not “News”. :)

Politics doesn’t have that same restriction. It would probably be a good idea to add it, things are going to move fast in an election year.

Unfortunately, now, two weeks later, it doesn’t look like it will let me restore it, it says post not found.

But if you ever have a question as to why something got removed, feel free to reach out to the mods and we will get to the bottom of it.

Edit I was able to access and restore the post through slightly different means. Not that it will be that effective since it was from 2 weeks ago and is long since off the front page.

https://lemy.lol/post/21868929

I second the Epson Ecotank, but the problem it has is that unless you use it regularly, it dries up and needs 1 to 3 cleaning cycles before it will print again.

So unless you want phone calls like “It’s printing blank pages again…”

So when it comes to kernel modifications, I’m old school…

“If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.” :)

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/balancing-if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it-vs-release-early-and-often

Unless there’s some VERY specific need, some security hole that needs patching, some critical flaw that is failing, in general, DO NOT mess with the kernel.

That being said, there are tons of good guides you can find just by googling “linux kernel modifications”, but also specific guides for your installations. RedHat makes it dead simple to do stuff like this.

But before you do it:

1. Make sure you have a specific need you’re addressing.

2. Make sure you have all the necessary backups you require.

3. Have a roll back process in case something goes wrong.

4. Have a diagnostic testing plan.

I’m not going to address the Fedora/KDE specific questions because I’m more of a generalist.

Can I partition /home directory in a different drive and still fuction?

Transferring /home directory without reinstalling Linux?

Best way to partition my / and /home directories?

Take the time to learn how Symbolic Links or Symlinks work. Once you have that down, you can pretty much put whatever you want, wherever you want.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/symlink-tutorial-in-linux-how-to-create-and-remove-a-symbolic-link/

https://www.futurelearn.com/info/courses/linux-for-bioinformatics/0/steps/201767

https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/creating-and-removing-symbolic-links-symlinks/

The core is the same, the shells are each a little different. I remember juggling 3 different installs and having to keep a cheat sheet to keep them all straight. :)

I don’t know that you can learn “all of them”, there are new ones popping up all the time.

I started with Unix in 1988 because I wanted to play on the Internet and back then you either learned Unix or you didn’t go.

Unix is interesting because when Bell labs came up with it, they were told “Look, you can have a monopoly in the telecommunications industry, or you can have a monopoly in the computer industry, PICK ONE.”

So they picked the telecom industry, but at the same time they went “Hey, here’s this computer OS, see what you all can do with it!”

So you ended up with Unix System V, HP-UX, Irix, BSD Unix, and so on and so on. They were all Unix but all also a little bit different.

Roll forward to the early 90s and Linus Torvalds going “Hey! Imma make my own Unix!” and then THAT splintered into all the Linux variants we have today.

When the early days of Linux happened, my reaction was “Well, I already learned Unix, how hard could this be?” :)

The problem was, there was no easy way to collect everything you needed for an install, so I waited until someone put out a CD with all the files I needed, I think that was 1993? 1994? Something like that.

Anyway, my first was Slackware. Since then, I can’t tell you how many I’ve used. Different situations call for different things. I was a Redhat admin for awhile. I installed YellowDog on a PS3 for fun. MacOS X is not Linux, but it’s underpinnings are based on BSD Unix so it’s kind of a kissing cousin. Apple does a lot of goofy shit, but it’s not insurrmountable if you know Unix.

My certifications were done around 2000/2001 through a company called SAIR and I’m not even sure they exist anymore. They got absorbed into Thomson Learning in 2002.

It was a great experience though. Wouldn’t trade it for anything. I made some good money administering Avaya Definity and Intuity phone systems running Unix.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaya

I’ve been using Linux for 30 years now, certified to teach it and everything… Here’s your problem:

“Stop telling people it’s ‘tech-y’”

Compared to Windows or MacOS, yes, it is very techy.

“offer to help them install.” - If they need your help to install it they absolutely have no business running Linux.

“They don’t understand the concept of distros” - If they have no understanding of distros, they have no business running Linux.

Think of it like this… if they can’t wrap their head around a distro, what’s going to happen when you try explaining a package manager?

I get the evangelism, but Linux simply is not for everyone, that’s why Apple invented iPads.

I’m in this one:

Exactly. There’s no way to even know what the previous permissions were for everything.

They were TRYING to recursively change permissions in a single directory, accidentally hit the whole system. :(

Changed it all to 000. ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5593752/who-can-access-a-file-with-octal-permissions-000-on-linux-unix

Not me, but one I saw… dude used chmod to lock down permissions across the board… including root… including the chmod command.

“What do I do?”

🤔

“Re-install?”

True, what I’m saying is, it likely wasn’t a case of a mod idly browsing and taking offense at it, it was probably reported.

Likely not just a case of a mod removing it because they didn’t like it, but someone reporting it to the mods requiring them to deal with it.

Nice! Just use the search and find the communities you’re interested in, subscribe to them, and stick mostly to “Home”, popping into “All” once a week or once a month to see what’s new. Or blockable. Or new and blockable. ;)

Yeah, right now if you block it, it’s blocked.

I go into All and sort by New and it’s all the subs that are being seeded with new content right now, either new subs trying to gain traction or people crossposting stuff.

Right now it’s “Flyers” for some reason, must be hockey season I guess. :)

Apparently a new version of Lemmy is coming soon which will allow users to block entire instances without having to fully defederate them.

So if you find you’re getting a lot of bullshit communities from, I dunno, lemm.ee (just using that as an example, not saying they’re an offender), you’ll be able to block all of it in one shot.

Yeah, once you have a curated feed, it’s actually pretty good, and the search function for communities makes it pretty easy.

But I definitely see why All is a turn off. I only dip into it occasionally to see if there’s something new that might be of interest.

Once you subscribe to the stuff you want and stick to home, you’re pretty good…

Diving into All? Be ready to block all the anime furry porn.