Android’s stock backup misses a lot of things, apps can opt-out and many do, it also doesn’t backup files or documents or photos. Photos are “backed up” if you enable Google Photos cloud sync, but that’s separate. It basically just backs up your phone calls/SMS, system settings and what apps you have installed (but not their data unless they tie into the backup APIs).

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.

Looks great! Is this compatible with Lemmy’s dark theme?

I’d like to know too. And also if it’s important we set it, is there a way to make it default to English?

Maybe during signup it should nudge users to set their language preferences.

When they put it up on streaming it changed. They had different songs in different regions when it originally aired and the streaming version uses one of the other songs. Seems like a licensing thing?

The Sopranos, it really sets the mood. Game of Thrones too. And The Wire!

I liked the Dexter intro too. Breaking Bad, though its pretty short. And House MD when it was Massive Attack.

If it’s a network printer and it lists Postscript and/or PCL6 support on its specs it should be good for at least basic printing. I still use my Brother laser though, haven’t needed to replace it yet.

I wondered this a bit too and share your concerns. On one hand I like the idea of populating Lemmy with more content, particularly for niche communities, but there’s also a good amount of unique posts here that might get drowned out.

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.