I subscribed to the RadioShack battery of the month program. Just call me John Hancock of Pennsylvania Ave.

Except that’s not what the data shows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index

Wait… So all of those rich and billionaires in socialist countries are just figments of imagination?

Also, have you looked at how terrible the US upward mobility rankings are now? Under Capitalism you aren’t likely to move anywhere unless you’re born into it.

Edit: I brought receipts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index

Ironically enough, I wish we had stockholm Democratic Socialism while also suffering Stockholm Syndrome.

I have a an automatic $2/mo donation to Wikipedia set up. Of all of the sites I’m more than willing to support with hard currency, it’s the one.

$2 isn’t much, but if we all do it, it’ll keep the best online resource for general information we have on the planet operating. Very worth it.

Some 25 years ago when the RIAA was going apeshit over online sharing of music they were happily suing people left and right.

At some point they argued that no computer should ever make a copy of music without a license. The opposition proceeded to demonstrate how computers work. They make many copies of data files while processing them in the CPU, RAM, cache, omin temp files, etc. The judge did temporarily order that only one canopy could be made, but after the education, said fine: if the RIAA wants to let it stand, then they can’t distribute via any computer systems anywhere by their own rules.

In the end, the case was dropped and computers got to keep processing data as per normal.

I try other options now and again. When something is better I use it. Until then, I have things to do with what works.

People continue to innvote, test, and develop new options. Someday one will eventually work out a superior approach that takes off among the general userbase.

The labor class finally going to fight in the class war they’re losing.

Socialism is the long term solution, but you don’t get that without first dethroning the wealthy one way or the other.

I can feel the web rings rising from the shea of history. Their time has come one again!

Awesome. That’s the Geek Way.

Shadowrun shouldn’t be a documentary, but here we go.

Also: << the nerds aren’t going to do any of this shit, so… let’s look like the good guys by exempting them so we don’t look terrible when the nerds show how obviously this is all security theater >>

Maybe he’s an LLM bot?

Exactly the problem: bandwidth and latency.

The radio frequencies these run at and the power they’re allowed to use limits them to very very low bandwidth for data transfer. They can’t even do a low bitrate audio stream.

What they can do is messaging without 3rd party oversight and with adhoc data links. They’re very very cool for offline networks, especially in places without extant infrastructure for transmissions.

So from this headline I can only deduce:

1. there might have been a meeting of some sort.
2. I’ll wait for an adult to report on what might have happened

We’ve been using those on Linux for a very long time. They just work.

It works fine for the job it’s designed to do. It does it in a significantly more monolithic manner than historic UNIX architectures and approaches (System V, BSD init, etc) did similar jobs.

It doesn’t suck from a “does it work perspective” in my eyes. Whether it’s a good long term approach given the monolithic nature binding more tools and services to a single framework should be a continued debate among the community.

If you don’t want to use it, then pick a distro that doesn’t use it. If you can’t find a distro that doesn’t use it, start one. If your distro gets popular than Systemd will be sidelined over time.

Historical References: X11/Xfree86/Wayland, telnet, MySQL/MariaDB, Linux/BSD kernels, etc.

Very fun. We should make a debian package to install the manpage via apt.

Not Romania and Chad?

Maybe Ireland and Ivory Coast?

… And then there’s Hawaii.

The question is really: How do I check if a specific printer is compatible with CUPS (Common Unix Printing System).

Mint (and most other distros) use CUPS to manage printers and printing. I’d check there.

That said, Brother printers are often supported. The company is proactive on Linux drivers and tools, but I don’t know about your specific device.

Once my HP LJ4 died many years ago, I moved to Brother laserjets and have never looked back. They’re great.

If it’s got a scanner also make sure to check out the GUI scanner tool in Mint/Cinnamon: Document Scanner It has been phenomenal for initiating network-based scanning using our printers, even handling multiplexing and simple page re-ordering issues.