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Velskadi @kbin.social
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Brother printer questions

My partner and I are thinking about getting a Brother laser printer for home use in the near future. How difficult is it to get a newer model working in a Linux ecosystem? Are there any specific drivers we should look into installing, if a specific driver isn't available for the model we end up getting? Any advice for connecting it to our network?

EDIT: Thank you all for the feedback! It seems that generally you all have had decent experiences with Brother on Linux, depending on the distro, and that there are resources out there to help with any issues that might come up.

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Scientists find possible first room-temperature superconductor
  • The only other Superconductor news that I can think of recently involved Ringa Dias, who has had to retract a couple of his papers. I can't find anything about this team having retracted papers regarding Superconductors.

  • Best distro for Hyprland?
  • At risk of sounding like an Arch shill, I've had the best experience with Hyprland on Arch. I first tried to get it working on Garuda but couldn't get it to work without weird issues, then found it wasn't available on Linux Mint (might be available now? Not sure). Worked pretty much out of the box on Arch with Sddm, and havent run into issues since.

    That being said I tend to not install many packages, which reduces the chance of things breaking, so your miles may vary.

    I think Hyprland might be available on Pop!_OS, might be worth checking that out.

  • Best distro for Hyprland?
  • At risk of sounding like an Arch shill, I've had the best experience with Hyprland on Arch. I first tried to get it working on Garuda but couldn't get it to work without weird issues, then found it wasn't available on Linux Mint (might be available now? Not sure). Worked pretty much out of the box on Arch with Sddm, and havent run into issues since.

    That being said I tend to not install many packages, which reduces the chance of things breaking, so your miles may vary.

    I think Hyprland might be available on Pop!_OS, might be worth checking that out.

  • Improved Collapsible Comments - Script that lets you collapse replies by clicking a line to the side of each comment
  • Sorry for triple posting, but just wanted to test this out real quick. The script seems to basically work, but I've found a couple issues; After my second post it showed the line only on the first post. The second post didn't get a collapse line until I collapsed/uncollapsed the first post.
    Second, when I edited a comment it removed the collapse line from that post until I edited a second time. This doesn't seem to be consistent.
    Third, and this might just be on my end, at some point while editing the posts, the second post is now on the far right of the comments window, instead of just slightly to the right of its parent comment.

    I don't think these issues will be a huge deal, and I'm still looking forward to using this. Thanks for making it!

    EDIT: Should also mention I'm on Firefox as well, incase that matters.