JustARegularNerd @ JustARegularNerd @lemmy.world

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I have a pair of LaserJet 2200dn printers, they work absolutely fine in any Linux distro but I just have to make sure to use the below driver in my case:

HP LaserJet 2200 Foomatic/lj4dith (grayscale, 2-sided printing)

If I use the default or hpcups drivers it takes fucking forever (over an hour!) to process the pages. Essentially if given the option go for the lj4dith driver for your LaserJet

Same here in QLD, Australia

Unsure about the S6, but my S5 (which I still have and currently use as a dashcam in a pinch if I'm not in my usual car) definitely has an IR blaster and yeah, it was so good to just flick on the TV in the living room, or notice that my parents TV was still on while they were sleeping and I'd just turn it off from my phone.

What you can't see is that's only about 6% printed

Yeah, I'll even go as far as to say that because F-Droid apps are usually not for profit you get actually good apps without ads or trying to sell you anything.

They're just an app that some dude found they needed and developed, and then made available for everyone else.

This is the most jarring difference I find when I go to the App Store, so a FOSS repository for iOS would be so huge.

It's actually astonishing to me how much better Linux deals with updates compared to macOS and Windows. "Oh, updates are installed, and you just need to restart whatever I updated if it's currently running."

Sometimes it does have its moments though, like when it updates some core package and changes its config in such a way that the next boot doesn't go into a GUI, but I think it's also fair to point out Windows has had those too. And macOS High Sierra with the performance and security issues it initially had on release won't go unmentioned by me either.

True, but that 10 years is irrelevant when you consider the other factors at play here, such as the enforced minimum requirements for Windows 11 and the relatively short time for users to migrate, especially compared to previously with Microsoft. Windows 10 came out in 2015, and users had until 2023 (8 years) to migrate from Windows 8, and until 2019 (4 years) to migrate from Windows 7.

I'll definitely look into it, I have had a couple friends play it before actually, so they might be able to give me a steer on how to play.

I have, and generally I get overwhelmed with how complicated they can get, especially the really popular modpacks that add magic and stuff like that.

I usually end up making my own "Vanilla+" kind of modpack, but I've gotten bored with most mods that I would usually add to that.

With that being said, I might try adding only a few of the more technical mods and seeing if I enjoy that.

Was coming back into Minecraft but wanted to make the game feel more spicy because vanilla survival has gotten boring for me, so I've been playing the latest April Fools snapshot "The Vote Update" in hardcore, with a personal rule that I cannot say "Do nothing" to any vote.

I did lose my first world to "Replace Creeper spawns with Warden" but the second world has been going well, and it's definitely a more chaotic and interesting way to play the game.

Yeah, I particularly remember seeing two people go back and forth, and you'd have to click "Show further thread" like 6 times before one of them just quit it.

I tend to genuinely feel that the users here are more mature and more open minded.

I don't know why I find it so surprising that Dropbox apparently has a Hacker News account, but I am mindblown that's a thing.

I thought HN would be way too niche for that to be a thing.

It wasn't on their résumé it was on their LinkedIn.

Although now the question becomes, why would you put your DOB on LinkedIn, which I have no idea.

Surprised there's so few of us in this thread!

I'm relieved to see some sane responses in that thread (although not from OP..)

I think the correct phrasing should be "turned out to be"

I do when its posted to something like Lemmy or Hacker News, if the things you're posting would interest those kinds of communities you'd at least have a small audience

Yeah, because if anything is better than granular data harvesting, it was ActiveX scripts wreaking havoc on your machine just by opening a webpage, disguised as ads.

At work I've been trying to use the new Outlook but the biggest gripe (other than this new news) is that it's once again, a fucking Electron app and a lot of features have been cut.

I work at an MSP and people have mistakenly changed to the new Outlook, and then find things like their local mail rules stop working (because it doesn't support those anymore), their custom accounting software that would compose an email in Outlook straight up won't do that with new Outlook, for businesses it's going to wreak havoc if Microsoft just force updates everyone.

It's probably not necessarily aimed at you, but for some seen as the straw that broke the camels back because they're overexposed to the subject and have had enough.

That being said, it's hard to see that if you're literally commenting on a Linux thread.