do people use usb for printers? my hp works fine on ethernet or wireless, no cloud required. SmartTank 7605. It’s a great little printer.

Always ask for an upgrade, especially if you’re above base level on their rewards scheme. I got heaps of Emirates upgrades to BC doing this. Also, I once had my seat double booked on an a380, was a great economy with good leg room. If this happens, and the plane is at full capacity, don’t fight for your seat. Arrived at seat, taken, check boarding passes, double booked. I told the lady to keep the seat, called a flight attendant over to sort it out, BC upgrade right in front of her!

people forced onto the streets, drug dealing, won the lottery… lotsa reasons!

Apple don’t let you change app icons outside of the app? I’m not sure what’s stupider, apple or Reddit. On Android I can set my icon to whatever I like in my launcher.

I like the user interface of kbin, and I just hate the name lemmy. Only one thing in this world should be called lemmy.

Have you isolated the 5v line on the USB between printer and octopi? How does it go when printing direct of the printer?

Can you not get the same keyboard and have one at work and in the office?

Oh ok. I’d read the article of it weren’t paywalled. 😅

So they’re axing a drone show that is 9 years away. Knee jerk reaction much?

I have a Lenovo smart display (the small one) on my bedside table, and it’s brilliant. I don’t really use the smart features much but it’s nice to just be able to tell it to set an alarm. It means my phone is free for watching YouTube or whatever in bed. Love that it is internet connected and always accurate.

What I really want is a smart ‘analog’ clock for the living room that isn’t the Amazon one. Have a large Lenovo smart display in the living room but I want something wall mountable that is visible from more directions.

I have no desire for a phone stand

Meh we already have /m/kbinmeta and redditMigration.

facebook groups really killed off long term availability of information. If you want true niche communities, and easy to find information, you have to go looking for true old school forums (xenforo, phpbb, vbulletin etc). so many forums I used to use had a mass exodus to facebook.

Reddit doesn’t really help either, it’s still centred around instant gratification and doomscrolling.

Just look at say one of the largest woodworking forums (www.woodworkforums.com), vs /r/woodworking. The forums are full of subforums so filtering information is easy. Default sort is by newest response, so if you bump a week/month/year old post, it will get noticed. The combination of easy to find information, and the display mode reduces duplication of information.

Whereas /r/woodworking is mostly just a showcase of work, minimal conversation, and minimal advice. It might as well be instagram. If you respond to a 2 day old post with a question, good luck having anyone even read it, let alone respond.

A lot of forms ceased to exist after facebook came along, or at least exist to the same extent. Facebook groups are horrible. Searching for information/help is so hard, no one does it, so you get the same questions over and over. it’s easier to post your question, wait for a response, than it is to actually search for the same question that was asked just the other day! My other issue with facebook groups is there are so many of them (I am in three or four for once hobby). You see a post in your feed, accidentally cause a feed refresh, and do you think you can find that post again? nigh on impossible.

I’d love to see kbin/lemmy introduce a solid tagging system, or sub communities somehow so information can be stored and accessed in a meaningul way.

eg
/m/woodworking/furniture
/m/woodworking/tools

etc etc.

mt ngungun in the glass house mountains is a great beginner walk. It’s short but rewarding.

flying down to Melbourne tomorrow. not looking forward to the weather!

just create your communities here in the fediverse. If they get populated, then you will be able to assign mods from your userbase. You’re preaching to the un-convertible over there now.

thankfully none of our kids like taylor swift. might take them to Foo Fighters.

What happens if you spell address correctly?