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Cake day: February 27th, 2024

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  • The thing I think you might be missing here is that: regardless of any external factors, the right is going to weaponize this. This is not a healthy society, and based on available data it is not heading in the right direction, and people coping with memes on the internet is not going to change any of that. With the level of rhetoric coming out of the right (and some, but a non-zero amount from the left/center), and with the escalation of violence in this year alone, getting to the point where people are going to be taking shots at public officials (or candidates, in this case) was an inevitability. The only outstanding question was who, when, where, and by whom. And of course, when the next one’s coming.

    There’s no amount of ‘high road’ that will change this. All we have is that the victims this time weren’t a bunch of innocent kids, they were fascists at a fascist rally, and, for tonight at least, I’m not going to pretend I’m upset about that.





  • A mesh system isn’t, strictly speaking, needed, but turning that extender into a first-class participant in the network is. Swapping the extender for anything that can broadcast an ssid (Access point or any home router) and extending the wired network to it (cat5/6 across the attic/crawlspace ftw) would also resolve the problem, albeit exchanging the cost savings of not buying a full mesh system for labor installing the new wire.











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    If you’re using 3rd party toner, yeah, you gotta swap the little chip, but you can run the toner well past when the printer thinks it’s empty by following the reset process: https://www.tonerparts.com/blogs/brother-1/how-to-reset-the-toner-cartridge-for-your-brother-mfc-l3710-3730-3750-and-3770 . It is very fiddly getting to that menu the first few times, but once you’ve got the hang of it it’s pretty straight forward and lets you just keep rerunning the same toner (or ‘toner’ if you’re swapping the chip) indefinitely. For what it’s worth, given the longevity of the drums, I’ve found it easiest to just buy the Brother toner (it’s only like 2-3 dollars more expensive than the 3rd party where I am, and is available in stores locally vs having to order from Amazon) and just run them until they’re dry by resetting them 2-3 times before replacement.

    Edit: Oh, I forgot to mention: print quality does start to degrade significantly after the reset about 1/3rd through the second ‘tank’ each drum provides. We use the printer primarily to print off sewing patterns, so this doesn’t matter until it’s illegible for us, but depending on what you’re using it for that may be worth keeping in mind when you’re resetting them instead of getting new ones.