Someone purposefully drove in a crowd at Pride today in my city. Aside from more rioting, what’s it going to take to get the TERFs and related scumbags to just leave people alone?

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Historical References: X11/Xfree86/Wayland, telnet, MySQL/MariaDB, Linux/BSD kernels, etc.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

The entire industry does. It’s a chronic shortage of UI/UX people who are backed by engineers actually taking the designs under advisement and executing on them.

I have not once done this. Many many times, yes. Not only once, though.

I use Debian BTW.

I don’t really run around yelling about it. I mostly use derivatives like Mint, Raspberry PI OS (such a dumb rebranding) and armbian , but stock Debian goes on some servers since it just works. I’m not tuning anything nor looking for special packages. Unless there’s a driver issue (old Debian problem), it’ll be boring and work.

Use what tools work for you.

Huge thank you to the Debian devs. You’ve done me good tools for decades now.

Started on vi, stayed in whatever has vi/vim bindings available.

The more I can stay on home row keys the better editing text is.

Been there. Multiple times.

Panicked at the wrong moment.

As the old joke goes: Emacs is great if you want to learn another OS.

I’m a barbarian vim user. Whenever I watch a real Emacs user operate a full dev environment inside of Emacs I’m always left stunned. It’s a whole universe of functionality, not just a refined line editor like vim.

That’s what I was taught at my first tech internship. It’s all they had on the UNIX system running the webserver in 1998.

I did write some web pages the pulled live data from the backend. I had the pleasure of writing them in C. I got the data binding to some kind of CORBA system using extern variables that were bound at compile time. All of the html (no js or css yet) was hand built and generated from the C code.

vi was the only editor on the system and there was no way to use arrow keys (the UNIX system didn’t have them on the keyboard at all).

I also had the displeasure of building a backup system on a floppy where I had to write a bat script that could manually load a token ring driver, bind a SMB share, load Ghost backup software and backup the local hard drive at under 2mb (yay coax thicknet). The tool used to query and write through the hostname for the backup? Copycon. Fucking copycon in DOS. That showed me how a terrible (but working) tool could be to work with.

Unless an editor can do reasonable vim emulation, I can’t take it seriously. You’re welcome to use it, but I won’t be able to get anything done in it quickly. The vi keys are too ground into my reflexes.

Use what works for you.

Develop what scratches your itch.

Don’t tell OSS devs who are volunteering unpaid labor what they should do for you.

If you want a solution that’s non-systemd go for it. If it doesn’t exist make it or pay someone to do so. Write from scratch or fork a project and get to work. That’s the way of the Bazaar.

I’ll be in my unenlightened “things work for me good enough” Linux world using what works. Systemd is fine and rarely gives me problems. Actually, I’m not even sure I can remember any.

Huge thank you’s to the devs who make this all possible. You rock!

I thought NASA has mostly removed Microslop from places like the ISS after they had the microslop windows laptop infect those systems on the ISS? Why go back to this garbage on important facilities?

It only happened in the last year, or even the last six months to truly be in effect. It was a huge position shift for the German government as part of their effort to increase skilled worker immigration and retention.

Even a toga is an option. It’s not “normal” most places, but if you wear reasonably covering clothing and get your work done anyone worth working for won’t really care.

No. Full stop NO.

It’s my computer and my family. Stop trying to justify yet more tracking us in our own homes and on our own devices. Get fucked.