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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I’m able to see any news that would be relevant as quickly as any other social media,

    That’s not what I use Reddit for and that’s sadly the only Reddit (and other social media) thing today, that Lemmy mimics successfully.

    I’m using Reddit mostly for the niche and special interest communities. For specific tech advice and troubleshooting. For all the stuff that once used to be home on newsgroups and bulletin boards and can now only be found in subreddits and, even worse, Discord communities.

    And a lot of these smaller tech communities were super motivated to move to Lemmy, but Lemmy’s complete inability to surface anything but the most popular posts in the most popular communities (there’s still no equivalent for multireddits and there was no weighted popularity until 0.19) rapidly killed and suffocated virtually all of them.

    That’s the reason why you can type “obscure technical problem Reddit” into Google and almost always get a relevant answer, while that will likely never be the case for Lemmy.

    I can discuss things in communities that feel welcoming to me as a queer socialist that I could hardly find on Reddit.

    I’m not saying Lemmy doesn’t have good communities, it certainly does, but once you go beyond news, politics and memes there’s neither enough content nor enough users to keep anything else alive.









  • Yes, the hardware (a cheap sponge, essentially) that the counter “protects” is easily replaced for little money - but you still can’t just reset the counter.

    https://epson.com/support/epson-ink-pads-reset-utility-faqs

    For “North American users” Epson now offers a tool to reset the self destruct counter one, single, time.

    There are third parties now, that offer a reset of the software destruct counter, for a fee.

    The fact that a printer sold as “Eco” has a software self destruct that the user requires an unlock key to reset - an occurrence frequent enough to make it a profitable business for third parties to sell such keys - should tell you all you need to know about these printers.

    I couldn’t confirm, but there supposedly are more premium models with user serviceable waste ink tanks that don’t have a self destruct, but most consumer models very much have this limitation.





  • Inkjet is pretty much terrible for anyone printing very little (more ink wasted on cleaning cycles than actually printing, high chance that the ink dries up regardless) and very much (stupidly expensive and unreliable).

    If you don’t need color, get a cheap b/w laser printer. Brother used to be one of the last good ones until they, too, decided to block third party cartridges via firmware updates last year.

    If you can get an old, used, Brother laser printer for cheap, go for it - they were borderline indestructible and would print with any cheap toner.