CachyOS, because I wanted something arch based due to the archi wiki and rolling releases.

My media boxes run Ubuntu, but that will change when they get rebuilt/replaced at some point, most likely to Debian

That’s not mental overload, it’s the opposite. It’s a job without mental stimulation, boring, repetitive and requires very little cognitive processing. And people doing jobs like that seek stimulation to escape perpetual boredom.

Give that guy a job that didn’t bore him to tears, and the picture would have been very different.

As I said, it’s always about hitting a threshold, and boredom is a threshold. And if an employer cares about quality, rather than the appearance of quality, they’d have designed that job differently.

I don’t often go to concerts, but when I do, I fly to New Zealand to see Bryan Adams and relive my teenage years

That’s not laziness, that’s looking after yourself and your own needs, and prioritising that over non urgent chores.

At some point, the balance changes, and you do the stuff.

And if the balance doesn’t change, and you always put it off, even when you shouldn’t be, there’s something going on behind it.

There’s no such thing as “lazy”. It’s always, always, always a word used to make someone feel guilty for hitting a personal limit or threshold.

Even if you want to work on those thresholds and improve them, you can achieve that without framing yourself as fundamentally selfish and uncaring.

That appears to be hardware, not a distro

Bird

My family did that too!

If you see “permanently deleted” in your post history, you know that it was removed because the person deleted their account.

Other than that, there isn’t and can’t really be any way of tracking that removal, without keeping data that the account owner has requested be deleted. Some clients cache removed content and continue to display it after its removed from the instance, but that only works if the client is explicitly coded to do so, and if the client happened to get a copy of the content before it was removed.

To verify this, one needs to know the poster’s username in advance, but this info is not visible from the deleted post.

Your comments to their removed post will still show in your history, and the title of the post will be “permanently deleted”. If you see that, you know that the user deleted their account. Of note, admins and mods of communities where the content was posted will still be able to view the post stub, to see the other replies to the post, but even they can’t see the initial content.

Anything else will have a trail attached to the users ID. The API makes a difference between a user deleting their own post/comment (not account) and a mod doing the same. Many lemmy clients display them differently, though some display them the same, and others just hide as if it never existed in the first place. So in many clients, you can see that a user deleted their own post by the icon the client uses. You won’t get any more information than that, because there is no requirement for a reason to be entered when removing your own content.

If a mod or admin removes it, it will show as being removed by mod action, and will generate a mod log.

There is also a purge option that will let a moderator completely purge a user, post or comment from their instance. This is used for accounts that post NSFL content. A purge won’t leave a mod log trail, but purging doesn’t federate. which means that the content will still be visible on remote instances (and the user can still continue to post if they are based on a remote instance). To remove remote content, the admin needs to issue a ban and content removal before the purge, and the ban will leave a mod log entry. This is only an option if the user was a local user, or for content they posted to a locally hosted community.

In theory, an admin could also remove content directly from the database, but that is basically the same as the purge process. It doesn’t federate, so content remains visible on other instances, unless the admin issued a ban before getting in to the database, and then the ban will show in the log.

I am honestly confused.

The existing modlog already includes user bans.

Your comments were never removed, so they don’t appear in a modlog.

You can’t find the parent posts your comments were made on, because they are permanently deleted due to the poster deleting their account. These don’t appear in the modlog, because they were removed by the user, not a mod. There was no reason to attach, because the reason is that the user deleted their account.

If the user had a post deleted by a mod before they then deleted their own account, it won’t appear in the modlog, because both the user and the post in question have been removed from the system. If it was in the modlog, all you would be able to see is that an unknown user had some unknown content removed, or than an unknown user was banned, which is less than useful.

If what you’re asking about isn’t covered by that, then I genuinely don’t understand the scenario you’re trying to clarify

Two separate things.

User bans already appear in the modlogs.

Self deleted accounts don’t appear in anything, because they are truly erased.

That image doesn’t show “permanently deleted”. Neither the comment in the screenshot nor the post the comment was attached to have been deleted. That appears to be a screenshot of a discussion about this issue, rather than an occurrence of it.

That’s what I’m saying. The post is gone because the user deleted their account. Everything about that account is gone. I believe it works that way due to European laws on the right to be forgotten.

There is no modlog, because there were no mod actions.

They likely deleted their account after getting banned

“Permanently deleted” normally means the poster has removed their account and content. In this case, your comment hasn’t been removed, but the post you were replying to is gone, because the person who made the post deleted their account. It reads permanently deleted, because that’s now the post title in the database

Believe it or not, I have been in a car many times in my life :)

I’ve never had a driver’s license and I never will. Expensive, polluting and boring.

Nothing. It will always be worth it

I deleted my account before the reddit exodus, when it became clear to me they were heading the way of all centralised social media