Wiz

joined 2 years ago
[–] Wiz@midwest.social 8 points 1 week ago

Well that's gotta be an interesting story! Don't leave us hanging!

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 54 points 1 month ago (2 children)

issues with the Covid-19 vax

healthy for opposing viewpoints

Vaccine skepticism is not a "healthy viewpoint", but quite the opposite. Vaccines and inoculations are about as much "proven science" as we have, with hundreds of years behind the science. Spreading anti-vaxxer propaganda kills people.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 11 points 1 month ago

I'm convinced it takes a special kind of sociopath to be a CEO.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

That anonymizes Google results. It's Google, all the way down.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

I've heard "dub-dub-dub". But yeah, saying the abbreviation is longer than the words it's abbreviating! 😀

[–] Wiz@midwest.social -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)
  1. So what?
  2. Damn straight they are locked. Other wise you get Nicole spam on all of them, instead of just a few.
  3. So what?
[–] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thank you sincerely for getting back to me on this. I wanted to let you know I just figured it out! I thought I'd document it for the next person to come along.

I had tried all of the options in that screenshot, and none seemed to work.

Investigating further, it was a Brother printer, so I needed to download special drivers: https://support.brother.com/g/b/productsearch.aspx?c=us&lang=en&content=dl

Then, arcane magic needed to be performed on the command line: https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadhowto.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfcj4335dw_us_eu&os=128&dlid=dlf006893_000&flang=4&type3=625

I had done all that, but I still had a problem. Digging through the script output, apparently I had a bad "libsane" installed with apt. Also, to add to the problems, apt doesn't recognize the string "libsane" now. We are to use its new name "libsane1" now in apt! So, I tried to reinstall and then reinstall the brother printer drivers, to no avail. Eventually, I had to completely uninstall libsane, and then reinstall it. And everything magically worked.

It's so easy! 🤨

One thing to be ready to have is the IP number of the printer, which I was able to get in the WiFi options of the printer.

Whew! Test page printed on my test machine! I feel like this was my last major hurdle before adopting Linux on other machines.

Again, thanks for responding!

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I was thinking of buying a Synology system. I was actually looking at prices this past week.

That being said, I've got an old 2019 desktop running Windows that is coming to the end of its support, that I was considering making a Linux machine.

How complex is making a roll-your-own NAS?

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Please explain what qualities they demonstrate that make them leftward.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Is "far left" an accurate description? They are not really what I consider "left" at all.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 11 points 3 months ago

Bold optimism that the USA will last 100 of any time unit.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

Pete, we know you're a big softie inside.

 

As a project, Mastodon has operated under the umbrella of Mastodon GmbH, a German company that benefited from non-profit status with the German government. Despite all indications that they were doing everything right, Mastodon GmbH recently had its non-profit status revoked, resulting in the team to seek an alternative.

In the announcement, CEO and founder Eugen Rochko had this to say:

Our day to day operations are largely unaffected by this event, since Patreon does not presuppose non-profit status, and Patreon income does not count as donations. We have in fact not had to issue a single donation receipt since 2021.

Mastodon remains one of the only popular social platforms that operates out of the European Union, and Eugen desires to keep things that way. With that being said, this could be an interesting opportunity for the project: a presence in the United States may reduce friction in hiring employees there.

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