This has not been my experience … at … all.

Perhaps it would be helpful to discover what exactly doesn’t work for you and fix that, rather than remove CUPS because one time it didn’t work for you seven years ago.

You could print to CUPS from the other devices and potentially bypass all those shenanigans.

Also, CUPS has a PDF printer which saves you from even heating up your printer at all … I haven’t had a printer in my life for over 25 years.

Oblivious or Complicit, neither is something you want to run your government.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (Exterminate)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

So the people in that office are either oblivious, or complicit.

I wonder if the USA will run out of essential items before or after the next election.

It’s likely going to take down whole companies if not countries.

And we’re still stuck with its aftermath in that search engines require quotes rather than a + for requiring words, which they now ignore whenever the mood strikes.

Why?

Because some fuckwit at Google decided that the + was reserved for Google+ search results.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eswatini

Aka Swaziland.

Just Americans?

Given the level of financial inequality across the planet, I’d hazard a guess that this experience is significantly more widespread than just one country.

I’m in Australia and there’s a significant proportion of the population that wants to emulate the USA.

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WTF?

The comments here seem to be missing a salient point.

In order to determine if a user is under 16, you need to determine that for every single user … including you!

This means that your personal data will be harvested in order to determine if you are over 16 or not.

From memory they use Cisco.

In 2023, apparently Optus attempted to blame them for the default values on the hardware (IIRC the size of the routing table), which several people pointed out was blatantly absurd. Apparently Optus also didn’t follow up with a welfare check of each of the failed calls in their network. Apparently they had to physically visit each affected router across the entire network. They were fined. I’m not aware of any other penalties.

Now, in 2025, it appears that Optus didn’t follow their own processes, ignored several early customer reports about emergency calls not working, didn’t inform the communications minister, under reported the impact, didn’t inform customers and didn’t make any announcements until it was fixed.

In 2023 I couldn’t help but wonder if the staff at Optus had ever heard of testing. Today it seems obvious … to me … that they don’t.

Disclaimer: Note that whilst I’m an ICT professional, I don’t have any direct knowledge of the internals of these incidents and I’m relying on memory of reports and commentary and Wikipedia, I have also never played with Cisco routers, so YMMV. I also note that I haven’t been an Optus customer for about a decade, and my own experience with their ICT systems as a customer over fifteen years or so has been … let’s call it “suboptimal”.

Just so we’re clear … we’re angry because it’s the second time it’s happened and if anything their response was worse this time around.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Optus_outage

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Optus_emergency_calling_outage

Except that in civil discussion with experts, other ideas are what helps people arrive at a solution suitable for them and their situation.

I’ll also add that I’ve been a Linux user for 25 years and the toxicity you claim in relation to the Linux community is in my experience not evident as a “major reason”, instead I’ve found it to be innovative and flexible with a wide perspective and approach to problem solving.

Are there dickheads in the Linux community? Yes, just like there are everywhere in society.

So … you are basing you hypothesis on an article about Pedophile hunters written in German (or Swiss if you want to get frisky) that you linked using an English headline and summary in a software development community?

I’m surprised that your post wasn’t removed.

I’m mentioning this because it hardly seems like a genuine attempt to learn anything and any assertions you make about voting behaviour has to be suspect at best, not to mention that it’s based on a single example, hardly ever the hallmark of solid statistical analysis.

Let’s move on to the attempted “fix”.

You’re attempting to achieve what exactly?

A relationship between votes and comments?

How do you know how the users decide what to read, vote or comment on? You see a relationship with ordering by votes, I read whatever comes past on my “All feed” and vote when I think the pod warrants it. The two are not the same.

In other words, your proposal seems based on a very poor foundation and I’m voting accordingly.

The open-source alternative to Mailchimp, Brevo, Mailjet, Listmonk, Mailerlite, and Klaviyo, Loop.so, etc.

That’s the first paragraph of the project page.

How does this improve on “Print to PDF” built into every browser and/or OS?

Not to rain on the parade, but in my experience, having had to email customers in bulk … sending tickets and logistics requirements for large events … I can tell you that self hosting this is a complete and utter waste of time.

You’ll get blocked before the first batch of emails leave your mailer.

Not even paid MailChimp or Campaign Monitor could guarantee delivery.

The problem is not the platform for sending email, it’s the centralised nature of email hosting, much of it is behind Google and Microsoft hosted services.