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Ace T'Ken

@ AceTKen @lemmy.ca

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I advocate for logical and consistent viewpoints on controversial topics. If you're looking at my profile, I've probably made you mad by doing so.

  • What stocking stuffer gifts do you think are cool?

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  • Something I've always requested when anybody asked what I wanted for a gift, (and only got once from somebody who went on to be my wife) was a hand-written letter.

    As somebody who buys the things I require whenever I require them, it's something so much more personal than damn near anything else.

    Edit: I gave her a box of secrets. Basically I wrote a bunch of lines or paragraphs on pieces of paper that I don't like to talk about or have trouble expressing. The only caveat was that she could only read one per day and only when she's not having a great day.

  • U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday

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  • Buying on a credit card doesn't incur interest fees until a month after the purchase so you can pay it off right away.

    This is guaranteed to incur fees right out of the gate and cannot be paid back faster than they want.

  • me_irl

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  • yeah

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  • Well, to be perfectly fair, I am un-American. Being a Canadian and all...

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  • yeah

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  • So then yes to everything I said before then. Yes it was all a coincidence. Yes it was sold at exactly the right time after purchasing it exactly the right point in a VERY tight period of time. Totally out of the blue. Several hundred times given her stock portfolio.

    Listen, if you're not even going to pretend to be believable, then I don't think we need to continue this.

  • yeah

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  • So then logically, she voted with her party after her husband both purchased and later sold stock at the exact correct times (by your own admission) to profit off things both coming and going.

    And all of the rest of those listings are all... Just lucky. Over and over again.

    And somehow, even without those listings, the performance of her portfolio is... Just a coincidence and shrewd trading at a level that outperforms everyone else thousands of times over.

    Got it.

    But yeah, everyone else is easily fooled by Trump somehow. In 2011. Where the investigation was carried out by 60 Minutes for some reason.

    Brilliant deductive work.

    This is some MAGA-level bending yourself into knots to suck yourself off.

  • yeah

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  • Socialist hellscape

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  • Oh, is that where the word bussy comes from.

    /s

  • 35 percent of all Americans now say the country needs a revolution. That includes 39 percent of Harris voters and 32 percent of Trump voters.

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  • ... But what exactly that revolution looks like and what the outcome of it will be is completely different for everyone on all sides.

  • Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

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  • Bad title. He's criticizing the state of free speech in America citing the Jimmy Kimmel cancellation and people fired / cancelled over Charlie Kirk speech.

  • Google just broke all third-party YT clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.

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  • I've had it fail to load a lot of stuff today. Something's definitely up.

  • Help Us Make A Linux Stack!

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  • That deeply depends on the company and the certifications you'd acquired along the way. Some companies I worked at required an ever-escalating number of MS certs. For us, it's a bit different though.

    I always say that it's easy to train someone in tech if they've got that mindset, but it's damn near impossible to train someone to be good with people. We pride ourselves on being good people first so we generally don't hire outside of other people we've worked with in the past.

  • Help Us Make A Linux Stack!

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  • Thanks!

    The main office is in Calgary, but we have branches in Halifax and Vancouver as well. We're looking to acquire a branch manager for Vancouver, or a sole-prop or MSP in Medicine Hat or basically anywhere else in Canada that would like an easier job and shares in an actually good company / co-op. Heck, a brilliant sales person would also be awesome.

  • Help Us Make A Linux Stack!

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  • Yeah, I was sort of taken aback at the level of open hostility here. I thought Linux users were pretty happy with getting the OS out there.

    Anyway, I'll check out Zorin! Much appreciated. Firefox and Thunderbird are already in use everywhere we can get people to ditch Chrome.

  • Help Us Make A Linux Stack!

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  • Explain to me how I'm making money off it, please.

    Read my posts throughout this thread. As I said, the Linux stack is not a money maker, it’s more of a passion thing. Also, we’re not “selling it,” it’s something to outfit soon-to-be-sidelined Windows 10 systems with. It will literally cost me more money and hours to keep them from filling a landfill than it would to just dump them. There is no profit motive. No company will sign with us because of this service and no company will leave us if we can’t provide it. Your entire premise is faulty.

    I make the same per-machine monthly fee as an MSP no matter if the client runs Windows, Linux, or MacOS. The OS is a thing to be maintained by us, not sold. Hell, we provide hardware and software to clients at cost. We profit off nothing but our MRR. We're very open and honest.

    If someone really writing the name and use of software that may help users and having an MSP donate monthly to FOSS is bad, then I don't know what to tell you - we're fundamentally different people.

    And yeah, if I ask a chef what an odd seasoning they use on a dish is and they get all huffy and say "I'M NOT TELLING YOU FOR FREE!" then they're probably an ass.

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  • Actually, I'm rather sure you're missing the point. Explain to me how I'm making money off it, please.

    Read my posts throughout this thread. As I said, the Linux stack is not exactly a money maker, it’s more of a passion thing. Also, we’re not “selling it,” it’s something to outfit soon-to-be-sidelined Windows 10 systems with. It will literally cost me more money and hours to keep them from filling a landfill than it would to just dump them. There is no profit motive. No company will join us because of this and no company will leave us if we can’t provide it. Your entire premise is faulty.

    I make the same monthly fee as an MSP no matter if the client runs Windows, Linux, or MacOS. The OS is a thing to be maintained by us, not sold. Hell, we provide hardware and software to clients at cost. We profit off nothing but our MRR. We're very open and honest.

    If you really think that saying the name of software that may help users and having an MSP donate monthly to FOSS is bad, then I don't know what to tell you - we're fundamentally different people.

  • Lemmy be like

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  • DB0 has a rather famous record of banning users who do not agree with AI. See !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com or others for many threads complaining about it.

    You have no way of knowing what the scale would be as it's all a thought experiment, however, so let's play at that. if you see AI as a nearly universal good and want to encourage people to use it, why not incorporate it into things? Why not foist it into the state OS or whatever?

    Buuuuut... keep in mind that in previous Communist regimes (even if you disagree that they were "real" Communists), what the state says will apply. If the state is actively pro-AI, then by default, you are using it. Are you too good to use what your brothers and sisters have said is good and will definitely 100% save labour? Are you wasteful, Comrade? Why do you hate your country?

  • Help Us Make A Linux Stack!

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  • Nearly 11 years. We have 8 employees and 3 branches.

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  • We have been around for nearly 11 years now and have had a few requests for something that isn't Microsoft or Apple. We agree with the clients.

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  • Yeah, I do. I love I.T. work and messing with computers. I have, in fact, stated that if the government paid 100% of my expenses and I didn't need to work that I'd run computer literacy camps and still do I.T..

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  • Ye Power Trippin' Bastards @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Banned for Voting Incorrectly?

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    Banning Spree?