This seems relevant:

https://youtu.be/Fu3laL5VYdM

Is it just me, or does that seem … abrupt?

Charging him with a crime sounds like a good start … though I doubt that will happen anytime soon.

So … the US Congress can just summon a citizen from a different country … and the citizen is compelled to … do what exactly?

ProTip: the Ubuntu version number includes the year and month of release. 26.04 will be released in April 2026. 26.10 in October 2026.

What they’ll do when they hit 2100 is left as a rollover issue for the next poor sod.

Given the massive layoffs happening under the Assumed Intelligence banner, the answer has always been: “cheaper labour”

Apparently people who actually know how to do their ICT job are too expensive, right until the shit hits the fan, at which point it’s “drop everything and help me, now!”

Organisations are no longer run by Founders, instead they’re run by accountants and lawyers who only care about shareholder value, not the societal or environmental impact.

When the bubble finally explodes we’re going to be looking at an altered economic and technology landscape, if we don’t self ignite before that.

Yes. Look up LOGO.

In other news, Aussie Influencer discovers that the UK has an even stricter social media ban…

WfW 3.1

This is excellent and important. It also serves to highlight that registrars are making an absolute fortune off the back of this effort.

It means your coffee pod machine just came online and the coffee is currently spewing from the spout … probably.

In Australia:

https://reebelo.com.au/

Does this mean that the reverse is also true?

I wonder what the criteria are to define what an artist is, or what requirements are needed to qualify for such assistance.

Wait until you get your head around awk 😇

The commands man and apropos are your friends to get you started.

Learning how to use specific tools like grep, sed and awk is a case of getting started by using them. Most of the subsequent learning process will focus around how to create regular expressions (regex), for which there’s also a manpage.

The “typical example” for a dd command is like saying, “here’s a great way to shoot yourself in the foot”. A better way is to understand that most of these tools follow the UNIX philosophy:

1. Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new “features”.
2. Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program. Don’t clutter output with extraneous information. Avoid stringently columnar or binary input formats. Don’t insist on interactive input.
3. Design and build software, even operating systems, to be tried early, ideally within weeks. Don’t hesitate to throw away the clumsy parts and rebuild them.
4. Use tools in preference to unskilled help to lighten a programming task, even if you have to detour to build the tools and expect to throw some of them out after you’ve finished using them.

Once you “grok” that, you’ll be in a much better place.

How would you suggest I respond in the future?

We have a person, claiming that CUPS doesn’t work and they now uninstall it on every installation.

There is no context, no data, no information that suggests what the issue is, what they tried, when this occurred, on which platform, under which conditions.

In other words, the user was essentially saying “CUPS sux”.

Having used Linux as my main system for over 25 years, that sentiment did not match my own experience, does not help anyone, not me, not the user and not the OP who was trying to solve a problem, let alone anyone else reading along.

I responded accordingly.

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.