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  • 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.

  • Reddit’s only free iOS app icons are ugly now
  • 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.

  • So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
  • I like the user interface of kbin, and I just hate the name lemmy. Only one thing in this world should be called lemmy.

  • New to 3d printing, my ender 3 is having problems with thermal runaway and doesn't seem to be able to keep a consistent temperature when I begin printing.
  • Have you isolated the 5v line on the USB between printer and octopi? How does it go when printing direct of the printer?

  • Looking for light keyboards that don't sacrifice on feel
  • Can you not get the same keyboard and have one at work and in the office?

  • Brisbane Olympic drone show axed after Matildas malfunction
  • Oh ok. I'd read the article of it weren't paywalled. 😅

  • Brisbane Olympic drone show axed after Matildas malfunction
  • So they're axing a drone show that is 9 years away. Knee jerk reaction much?

  • Did Anyone Ever Really Need a Smart Display?
  • 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

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  • Meh we already have /m/kbinmeta and redditMigration.

  • How to make social media less for instant gratification and more for long term value?
  • 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.

  • Beginner Hiking/Walking Spots
  • mt ngungun in the glass house mountains is a great beginner walk. It's short but rewarding.

  • Pre-register to get notified when Boost for Lemmy is available to install
  • another +1 for kbin. I dislike lemmy from a desktop persepective.

  • Anyone up to anything interesting this weekend?
  • flying down to Melbourne tomorrow. not looking forward to the weather!

  • Went and invited people on 2 subreddits to kbin/lemmy/beehaw.. I got flamed BIG time..
  • 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.

  • Brisbane was 'definitely holding dates' at huge stadium for Taylor Swift, but she's not coming. Here's why
  • thankfully none of our kids like taylor swift. might take them to Foo Fighters.

  • What will you do if reddit undoes API changes?

    Interested in getting a feel for what people may be likely to do IF reddit reverses their decision regarding API access, or reduces access fees to a reasonable level and 3rd party apps remain sustainable.

    While I know the chances of this are extreeeemely slim, until 1st July there is an ever so slight chance this could still happen.

    From my perspective, the community harm is done, and those who have left prior to July 1 have left due to principles, not because their app stopped working. As such, I'd be inclined to think most of those migrators would stay here in the fediverse.

    But would we see a mass exodus back to reddit if the changes were undone? It's easy to say no, but if it went back to operations as relatively normal, it may be easy to justify going back for some users.

    I'd like to think I wouldn't go back. I've deleted content and account from reddit. I'll be happy here so long as there is enough userbase for some discussion.

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    "Bing, what's my IP address?" - give back the IP address of THEIR BOT...
  • What happens if you spell address correctly?

  • Why does clicking on a link bring me to the comment page instead of the link?
  • because this isn't old reddit?

    On kbin it's actually a cross between old and new reddit. new reddit a link appears below the title when reading the thread. kbin the title is the link, but only when reading the thread.

    I actually liked new reddit in compact mode, so used it that way since it was available, so not really much of a change. I've been using old.reddit a bit since this whole event, and it was so weird having to click on the comments to go to the comments, rather than the title of the post!

    Either way, people are going to find it different.

  • Built a Litl the other day
  • what does the pube key do? :D

  • How do we call kbin users?
  • Federers. But only if your first name is Roger.

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