Since we are talking about printers, doesn’t CUPS require drivers to be installed? I have an EPSON L3150 & L395 at work and they are the only thing keeping me from installing linux in all the computers.

So basically I just need to set the print quality to high, and use the scanner. I’ve tried the official DEB drivers in Ubuntu, compiled the source code in Ubuntu & Arch, and nothing works. I can’t set the print quality (the option isn’t even listed when printing/in the printer settings)

Those epsons have their own scanner program, Epson Scanner or something. Installed from DEB and source, they work only sometimes. Tried skanlite, also sometimes work. Sometimes it detects the scanner, other times it doesn’t.

Tried using CUPS, it still required me to install the printer drivers.

Tried generic built-in drivers, don’t work.

Tried epson-inkjet-printer-escpr from AUR. Doesn’t work.

All done while having the printer directly connected to the PC. Nothing reliably works.

How does one even setup IPP? It’s easier to find documentation about the latest JS frontend framework than setting up IPP

Am i dumb?

Yeah, I once tried to switch to Kubuntu, wanted my macos style global menu. In arch I just

yay -S plasma5-applets-window-appmenu

In Kubuntu, I had to download source and spend 2h compiling, every 5 minutes CMake complained a dependency was missing, searching how the dependency package is called, installing, now another dependency…

You have to accept to being tracked by Google, having an advertising id, all the data Firebase collects. Their ToS is large.

Users were asking for it, that’s true. I guess users don’t really care about being tracked, allowing google into their phone and indirectly supporting them controlling the web, thus enabling them to do things like manifest v3 or the web integrity API.

Ads? understandable, the dev has bills to pay. Not open source? Purists may hate it, but not the end of the world. Tracking? Google? No thanks, the beautiful design is not worth it.

My isp gives me something a public ip like 200.191.57.xxx, but that ip changes and I can’t open any port. Then my isp’s router’s local network is 192.168.0.xxx, my TP link router connects there (to 192.168.0.3 i think). Then my TP link manages ips 192.168.1.xxx. My jelly server is at 192.168.1.10, my devices are at 192.168.1.5, 8, etc.

Everything is local, nothing goes outside

I will check qos, i think i saw it enabled or something, thanks

From my internal IP (192.168.1.xx), I don’t access it from the outside (can’t open ports on residential connection in my country :c )

All my devices are connected to my own router, then that router connects to my isp router, which then connects to the internet, so its very weird.

The only thing I configured was reserving an ip address for my server on my router, but I don’t think that should influence…

There’re many games I want to play,

But dota 2 says no, so…

TIL I have to manually enable hardware acceleration. Will try it. Still not a good default experience, hope it gets better soon.

I don’t think its a issue with wayland mode, I tried Xorg/Wayland/Nvidia/Amd/Intel/Arch/Ubuntu, always had that problem.

Firefox flaptak, can’t play a video and go back a few seconds, or the video freezes but audio continues. Such a basic feature and it’s broken…

Marketing version (23.04 or just 23) and semver (3.11.3)

Change my mind

If I have to be awake at a certain time, inside my dreams I’d be always reminding myself to be awake at that time. Not the best sleep, but at least im where and when I need to be

Ah, asprite, an example of the reason why people pay for binaries, and open source is economically viable. Took me so long time to install and setup all the dependencies, by the time it was installed i got bored.

Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?

How about “php enables me to code like a moron”, or even better, "php breaks common conventions and forces me to think about every little detail and special edge case, slowing me down if I don’t want to accidentally ‘code like a moron’ "

Nested ternary operators emerge because of the lack of if/switch expressions (which is C fault), so they are “useful” (they shouldn’t be). However, PHP is the only language that treats it as left associative. This has 2 problems:

• You are forced to use parenthesis. Some (insane) people might do: (cond1) ? “A” : (cond2) ? “B” : “C” And it makes sense. Its ugly af, but it makes sense. But PHP now forces you to use more parethesis. It’s making you work more.
• It breaks convention. If you come from any other language and use ternary operators, you will get unexpected results. After hours of banging your head against the wall, you realize the problem. And now you have to learn a new edge case in the language, and what to do to actually use the language.

“But you shouldn’t use ternary operators anyway! Use if/switch/polymorphic dispatch/goto/anything else”

True, but still, the feature is there, and its bad. The fact that there are other alternatives doesn’t make the PHP ternary operator worse than other languages’ ternary operator.

PHP works against you. That’s the problem. The ternary operator is not a good example, since there are alternatives. But look at something so simple, so mundane like strpos.

If strpos doesn’t find returns false. Every other language returns -1. And if you then use this value elsewhere, PHP will cast it to 0 for you. Boom, your program is broken, and you have to stare at the screen for hours, looking for the error.

“BuT yOU sHoUlD AlwAyS cHEcK tHe rETurN eRRor!”

And even if that’s true, if we all must check the return value, does PHP force you to do so? Like checked exceptions in Java? Or all the Option & Result in Rust? throws, throws, throws… unwrap, unwrap, unwrap… (Many) people hate those features

PHP works against you. And that’s why its bad.