At first, I thought it was just a temporary glitch or something, but a few days pass and I still can't comment from any if my accounts (I have 5, 2 are on this instance). And I think it's only exclusive to the Main community, not any other community... the weird thing is, I tried from 4 accounts, the 2 on this instance and another 2, none of them can comment. In particular, I wanted to reply after this comment.

https://readit.buzz/m/main@sh.itjust.works/t/15368/-/comment/113606

Every time it just returns a "language_not_allowed" error. This in Jerboa, I haven't tried commenting from the web UI.

EDIT: Now this is interesting. I'm in the web UI now and if I follow the link I shared in this post, it says it's a KBin instance and asks for my login credentials. I noticed there is something funky with the URL and I really have no idea how I'm following this community through KBin 🤨.

EDIT2: OK, I pinpointed the problem. The link to the reply leads to KBin because the reply is from a KBin user account. I can't seem to be able to reply to that particular comment (seems I can reply to anything that is from a Lemmy instance, but not KBin).

Here's the post.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/308065

Now scroll down and find a comment from a user named ScrumblesPAbernathy and try to reply to that comment, see if you get the same error as me (language_not_allowed in Jerboa, or just hangs in the web UI).

EDIT3: OK, the solution to the problem was to select English as the language in which you wanna write the reply. There is no such option in Jerboa (yet), but the web UI has it and if you just select English, the reply goes through.

Not really networking related (kinda... sorta...), but just had to share it. I think his granma did it 😂.

Thinking about calling her on my next networking gig, lol 😂.

This is a (quite long, LOL :D) tutorial I wrote on the subject and I believe it covers most user scenarios, so it uses safe methods (known to work in generic scenarios, when the printer's manufacturer and model are unknown). I also tried to write it as plain (simple) as I possibly could, so that even regular users (users that are not tech wizards, but can find their way around a computer and can probably install a distro like Ubuntu on a PC) can configure the Linux print server and add the shared printer on a Windows install.

You can download the tutorial in PDF and DOC from here or here. Also, here are the plain (unarchived) PDF and DOC files.

I hope this tutorial helps users that have given up using their old (but working) printers, just because they don't have x64 (64-bit) Windows drivers :).

Unfortunately, this printer doesn't have support for x64/64-bit Windows OSes (only x86/32-bit Windows drivers), but the Xerox Phaser 3117 does, so you can use the 3117's drivers on any x64 Windows OS :) (Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11). You can download the drivers from the following links: Download, Mirror.

I've also included a PDF/DOC that explains in detail how to install the drivers, so that the printer works. Follow them exactly as they are written and the printer should work ;).

I did this fix a few weeks ago and thought I'd share it :). There are sites from where you can download the appropriate files and dumps, but here is everything in one place.

This tutorial requires you to be handy with a screwdriver and a soldering iron (the patch is in hardware), so it's not for literally everyone. If you're somewhat tech savvy and know your way with a soldering iron, you can try this tutorial :).

The beauty of this hardware patch is that it works with any version of the firmware on the Xerox Phaser 3100MFP, regardless of the input/output ports as well. But, just in case, I've also included the patched versions of the firmwares in the archive (2.07t and 3.01). You can upgrade the firmware via FTP or with the Xerox Companion Suite. My version of the printer didn't have an Ethernet port, so I had to use the Xerox Companion Suite, which didn't work on Windows 10... maybe I should've tried on Windows Vista or 7 (the suite is intended to be used on Vista), but thought of this later on, when I already did the hardware patch, LOL :D.

I've also included videos in the archive that cover soldering/desoldering SMD components with a regular soldering iron, as well as a video on how to disassemble the Xerox Phaser 3100MFP.

The archive with everything included can be downloaded from here. Also, here are the plain (unarchived) PDF and DOC files (they included more mirrors for the archive at the end of the documents).

Exactly what the title says. I'm not a native English speaker, so almost everything regarding auto-correct and word suggestions is turned off, except for grammar and speeling checks, that is set to underline. Underlining works in every other app, except Jerboa. Why is that?