Wiz
@Wiz@midwest.social
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 1 week ago:
Or even better, don’t worry about your hair line. It’s not worth it.
- Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 3 weeks ago:
“JV Dunce”
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 5 weeks ago:
You can do the things all GenX people learned on typing class, the double hyphen.
Also, we double space after periods. That’s a hard but of muscle memory to get out of my head.
Source: Me. A in typing. 1984.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 5 weeks ago:
Do CEOs.
- Comment on xkcd #3135: Sea Level 1 month ago:
Me, too, TIL!
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 1 month ago:
Thank you for articulating that so well.
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 1 month ago:
This notion that working from an office is always better than working at work is self-centered drivel. You can use your free time to go out and see people!
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 2 months ago:
want/need to do X as fast and painlessly as possible.
Yes, but money is a pain point. Free software eliminated that pain.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 2 months ago:
This past week I found DoubleDouble.top which has superior quality that YouTube converters IMHO.
- Comment on Reitti (v1.1.0) Update: Family mode, faster processing, colors! 3 months ago:
Something that might be helpful in posts like this: Please tell us what this app does! Why would I want it? Instead we get a list of things that changed in an app that I’m not familiar with.
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 3 months ago:
Well that’s gotta be an interesting story! Don’t leave us hanging!
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 4 months 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’ 5 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago:
Wait - writing communities on Lemmy?
- Comment on Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025. 5 months ago:
That anonymizes Google results. It’s Google, all the way down.
- Comment on Bread is probably the oldest human invention 5 months ago:
And then some genius cooked it AGAIN and invented toast!
- Comment on 5 months 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 5 months 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? 5 months 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 6 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 6 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 6 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* 6 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? 6 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? 6 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? 6 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? 6 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 6 months ago: