I have been fine with both Canon and Lexmark and also a Brother unit that someone in my family owns that their new Win11 machine refused to talk to; I opened up my ASUS t-pad with Ubuntu and printed in five seconds.

But yeah CUPS has actually caused many a headache to the point that I’ve disabled it on some units.

This has been a real issue yeah.

Yeeeeah! I haven’t played these in forever but Hero’s Quest was my first Sierra adventure and holy shit was it magic. And Krondor - Raymond freakin Feist writing games!!

Both absolutely epic! Although in my case we’d be playing fast and loose with the term “youth” this was stuff I played after college but still.

More like being molested.

Bot. Less than 24 hours old account.

Op is a brand new account it’s just a bot to shitpost. I imagine some people would like to begin filling Lemmy with vitriol to bring it down into the sewers like all the rest. Mods should ban these users no question no delay.

Seriously! It needs physical buttons. I don’t know why anyone bothers with this stuff.

Food for thought. Thanks.

That’s very interesting. It was my understanding that, especially now with global informati9n at least ostensibly available online, that obituaries would br obviously available.

Is that still the case nowadays?

Ever heard of obituaries? Daily listings of people who have died.

Filters. I use Voyager and I have filters blocking pilotical crap. It works quite nicely.

Your personal experience does not define the platform. Yes, the fediverse got an influx of new users right after the Reddit API change. So you observed the similarities and concluded that this was designed as a replacement. That is just not the case. It got your attention because of that incident, but it had been its own thing for a quite a while already. The design is merely a sensible approach to the framework. You will find the same on many other social platforms because it’s a good design. Also, all these things are just front-ends to databases and often the designer will tailor that based on what they know is already popular.

But for Lemmy there are numerous front-end apps already that are not all the same. They’re designed slightly different from one-another, but mostly follow the same basic structure because - once again - it works well for the platform.

I’m not disagreeing with you that there’s a lot of similarity, I’m just saying there’s nothing about Lemmy that is intended as a reddit replacement. It merely serves that purpose fairly well. But there’s a lot of difference too, because it is not a replacement by intent.

Yes an alternative. One of a few but arguably the one with the most potential. It’s just you seemed to imply it was an intended replacement, that’s all. No sweat.

No it’s not a replacement fabricated for that purpose. It looks similar because the structure is a sensible one that makes sense for its design. It has no relationship to Reddit other than the fact that it’s a good alternative.

Yeah I know. Was just pointing it out. No big deal.

In my experience with new hardware, it’s always been Ubuntu that works it perfectly where everyone else is like “what’s that? I don’t know that hardware”

A while back I got a new laptop and the audio hardware would only work with Ubuntu which is fine because that’s what I was already using on the previous hardware. Ubuntu with KDE is a very solid setup.

Yeah, methinks this will be one of those alerts pretty much everyone will be like “yeah, yeah, I know” and click to silence those notifications.

Don’t know if you’re joking but this is not supposed to be a clone of reddit. I’m not bothered really I was just being nitpicky. I mean, of it’s all the same, may as well use the right word.

They’re called communities on Lemmy, not subs. And if there isn’t one yet, feel free to make one! This platform is young still, and needs people to start filling the void.

This stuff is truly fascinating as well as mystifying.