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.

“We didn’t start the fire” : 🎶

He’s now signed a peace deal to end the war he started with Iran 39 times! That’s how dedicated he is to ending wars.

What if their shirt’s sleeve got all rolled up when they put on a sweatshirt? Or is that a bridge too far?

You mean: the weakest one going forward.

What about girls elementary schools? Is that fair game to be in the defending yourself category?

I could, but when it’s my fault I’ll take the heat.

Writing and prose are invaluable tools of interlocutory efforts. I exemplify an extensive history of accusations of bot-generated conversation in online games, established far earlier than the modern wave of Clankers in our midst.

If I fail an edit, it’s my fault. Autocorrect’s execution during the word smithing process or not. My name is on the top, so I stand by the quality of the words as published.

Okay, this got out of hand. I usually screw up whenever I don’t put on my glasses before I hit post. Have a good one!

Derp, you’re so right. Proofread fail.

The US Men can’t win a World Cup fairly, so they’ll just kneecap the other teams with immigration shit instead.

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.

Nope. It’s the normal busses and trains. On a usual day they charge $12.50 for the airport to city train, but the city decided to just turn it up to $100 for this event.

Similarly the prices on the normal busses are going to be special event rates.

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.

If only there were some way to prevent this suffering… but it might cut into billionaires’ profits, so I guess it’s impossible.

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.

France showing the US up (again).

They showed up on China and no one bothered to meet them. Instead, many of the Chinese leaders were meeting with Iran and securing modern military tech.

Watch the video of the Orange Furher wobbling down the stairs from the airplane. The US needs leaders, not oligarchs, but the oligarchs have won the class war for the moment, so here we are.

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.

“The insider trading will continue until the Empire falls”.

Congress DGAF. Conservatives cheer for a monarch to empower their hate while establishment Democrats wring their center right hands over the fires of the workers’ lives they’re burning to get rich.

Until there’s a real left party and real economic justice it’s just a pantomime to keep people from taking inspiration from 1789 France.

I’m waiting on the last birth certificate we need for our application. Let’s go Saskatchewan administrators! Find that old birth record please, we know it’s in there somewhere.