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  • synthllama@lemmy.sdf.orgtoLinux@lemmy.mlBrother printer questions
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    1 year ago

    Brother laser printers are great. As long as you get one that supports Postscript (Brother calls this BR-Script), PCL5 or PCL6. You can see this under the “emulations” printing specs on a printer model page. PostScript and PCL both have fully open source implementations so you’ll usually be able to just use built-in CUPS gutenprint or foomatic drivers. I also recommend ethernet (wired or wireless) and not usb.

    Do not get one that only says “GDI” emulations which is Windows based and can be really painful to deal with.












  • I also think option B is a good idea. It could split up the load of a large topic.

    As for maintaining the distributed philosophy of Lemmy, I think it could possibly work by moderators of each community vote on/approve other members of a super community, like and alliance or union. They may want to agree on a standard set of rules. Then if you subscribe to one, it can pick up the others automatically. And if a community/moderators go rogue then the members of the super community moderators could vote to expel that community.

    This keeps it still mostly simple/automatic for most users while allowing for a decentralized way to group communities and handle bad actors.

    Not sure how feasible it is on the technical side or how it would fit into ActivityPub. But hopefully we find some solution to these fractured communities.



  • Took me a bit to decide which instance to join and get setup, but I think I’m getting the hang of it. The registration process needs some feedback instead of just spinning if you’re not yet approved though I saw this is being worked on.

    It has been clunky to reference other communities or search for them, I keep finding links that send me to another instance and then I’m not logged in there.

    Also, there seem to be a lot of duplicate communities. It would be nice to have some kind of system for groups of communities. So that they can link together as a super-community (if agreed by their mods) and if you subscribe to one you get them all. Or maybe over time the most popular ones will become apparent.

    Overall its been neat to get setup over here and see the beginning of something.