Wiz
@Wiz@midwest.social
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 2 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 4 weeks ago:
I’m convinced it takes a special kind of sociopath to be a CEO.
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 5 weeks ago:
I meant I’m interested in communities about the act and craft of creative writing.
Despite your sarcasm, those communities are ostensibly about writing about a real situation.
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 5 weeks ago:
It’s pretty active with Superb Owls, just like you’d expect!
What’s this one-time sports game you’re talkin’ about?
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 5 weeks ago:
Wait - writing communities on Lemmy?
- Comment on Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025. 5 weeks ago:
That anonymizes Google results. It’s Google, all the way down.
- Comment on Bread is probably the oldest human invention 1 month ago:
And then some genius cooked it AGAIN and invented toast!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’ve heard “dub-dub-dub”. But yeah, saying the abbreviation is longer than the words it’s abbreviating! 😀
- Comment on Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves 1 month ago:
- So what?
- Damn straight they are locked. Other wise you get Nicole spam on all of them, instead of just a few.
- So what?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
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: support.brother.com/g/b/productsearch.aspx?c=us&l…
Then, arcane magic needed to be performed on the command line: support.brother.com/g/b/downloadhowto.aspx?c=us&l…
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!
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 2 months ago:
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?
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 2 months ago:
Yeah, dumb liberals with their dumb vaccines and pasteurized milk and fluoridated water and science. 🙄
- Comment on China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech 2 months ago:
Bold optimism that the USA will last 100 of any time unit.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 months ago:
Pete, we know you’re a big softie inside.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
I’m planning on it.
I tried a rest run on an old laptop I had, and it runs 95% flawlessly. My biggest issue is my new Brother printer that I’m trying to install connected to Wi-Fi. The system sems to know it’s there, but then doesn’t seem to install the drivers. My Android phone prints there just fine.
- Comment on If restaurants just microwave their food can I just get the frozen version and cut out the middle man? 2 months ago:
Yum! I’ll be right over!
- Comment on If restaurants just microwave their food can I just get the frozen version and cut out the middle man? 2 months ago:
I found this recipe for Chickpea Masala a few days ago, and it’s fucking delicious. Also, its time and effort is pretty low. I might be able to make it stoned. Not quite as fast and easy as microwaved, but pretty damn close.
- Comment on If restaurants just microwave their food can I just get the frozen version and cut out the middle man? 2 months ago:
Not OP, but what do you do with the leftover potato scoops? Do you save it for eating later?
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 2 months ago:
- Comment on Thunderbird plans on expanding offerings with additional services 2 months ago:
These guys are good. Have they thought about working on a browser with no AI bullshit? It seems like there may be a market for that
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 2 months ago:
100 active users, sorry
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 2 months ago:
My local Madison insurance is forming a steering committee and has created an LLC. (I’m a member of the committee.) We will solicit donations, because mostly it has been one guy paying for a small regional instance of about 100 AU.
We think of it like public broadcasting, like PBS. I will be happy to kick in a few dollars per month to pay for it. We have contests, online meetups, and other fun. It’s not just Mastodon, it’s an active regional online community, and it’s worth it.
(I also donate to my Lemmy instance, because it’s worth it too!)
- Comment on Former Fable dev behind hit free Ultima-style RPG adds 100-floor megadungeon for a fiver 3 months ago:
MoonRing is such a great game! You’ll get your money’s worth and then some.
- Comment on Mastodon and Pixelfed got a short mention on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 3 months ago:
“Email is hard!”
- Comment on Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet 3 months ago:
I realize that Mastodon doesn’t track birthdays for security reasons, but it would be nice to have a “special day” that popped up in friends’ news feeds. It’s probably the nicest feature of FB, to get birthday wishes from friends.
- Comment on Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website 4 months ago:
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 4 months ago:
They sign up on AOL or Yahoo Mail or Gmail. Or get an email address through their ISP.
“Here’s your address.” They use it.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 4 months ago:
“Wah wah it’s so hard to pick a server!”
JUST LIKE EMAIL YOU NITWIT!
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 4 months ago:
It looks like my Pinewood Derby car that I made in Cub Scouts!
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
PeerTube is also a Fediverse service, and does the longer form videos, like YouTube. It mostly works fine; it just lacks content.