Why this has no dismiss button?

i dunno. it should. there’s another one a little deeper in the menus that does have a dismiss ‘X’ and it doesn’t come back after.

I still have to make Antidote talk to Libre Office

Antidote Connector for LibreOffice – Integrate Antidote writing assistance software with LibreOffice.
https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/99349

things like ventoy are extremely convenient. been using it or a predecessor for years… but i’ve run into more images lately that won’t boot (or an install fails) from one, so i end up using a different flash and writing the image to it directly (usually with rufus if on win, gnome disks if not). i now have two flash drives dedicated to such reuse.

stonking releases next week.

they got hit six months ago, too, for resolute’s last test and release.

they ain’t doing it for us, they’re doing it for themselves.

this one was one of the bullshit ones. iirc, underneath it just made your swap bigger

this isn’t a revolutionary concept or anything, it’s basically just tor, without the middle hop, and with entry nodes that knows who you are

the redlib instance i was looking at has more ‘‘stuff’’ in the way that isn’t allowing it to work on it. but using the source reddit url in yt-dlp… that still works fine here.

either one is nothing but 1s and 0s without the hardware and operating systems they run on.

i’ve had to deal with two bricked dell all-in-one systems due to failed automatic bios updates. to their credit, they did repair those (shipping both ways, motherboard replacements) at no cost despite being out of warranty. but it did take some time for them to reach that resolution–both users had already replaced the systems with something else by the time they got word of the repairs being covered. that was years ago (7-8? maybe). the culprit then was dell’s own update software, not windows update.

i still cringe whenever i see a bios update screen that i didn’t initiate myself. at least my own systems are mostly way too old to have bios updates pushed out for them by microsoft or lvfs.

“peee-ewwww”.

why is it that open source folks have such a difficult time naming things?

debian doesn’t do that ‘out-of-the-box’, but you can do luks and btrfs at install (default partitioning even, just go back and change partition type of root before continuing with install), then ‘adjust’ things to be ‘timeshift compatible’ after install. for some inspiration: https://mutschler.dev/linux/debian-btrfs-trixie/

i’ve used this numerous times, on debian and a couple other distributions.

it also takes normal sheet paper. but it has an integrated cutter so the rolls enable A4 or A3 (us letter or 11x17), or any other length, or continuous from the same source.

permanent printheads are not really any better from a longevity standpoint. they still do degrade and need replacement. more often than not, that replacement either doesn’t exist, hasn’t been manufactured since the printer was a new model, or is prohibitively expensive and/or only available from random third-parties.

the last ink tank + separate printhead setup that you could very easily get tanks and printheads for was some old canon printers from 25+ years ago. the printheads were in a removable caddy, and that caddy was sold in stores with and alongside ink tanks.

printheads also need to be used, regularly. once you go a few weeks without printing, every day that you don’t increases your chance those printheads will never print again. when the printhead is in the consumable, it gets replaced far easier and automatically on a cartridge swap. yes, that is at the expense of higher cost new consumables.

we’ve had to bin three brothers, two hp, an epson, and a canon over the twenty years because of bad and unreplaceable printheads. coincidentally we’re currently using two salvaged hp printers that use the same cartridges as this ‘open’ printer, use refilled consumables, and the printers are old enough they don’t scream and refuse to print if the color is empty–we can use and print black only.

the problem here with this project is they don’t have their own printheads and cartridges, which means some of their code was either lifted from hp printers or reverse engineered; and they rely on hp as the only source for new consumables and printheads. hp would be very hostile to this project, so i hope they fully documented their entire process of development and are ready for the inevitable lawsuit.

i do enjoy the fact they’re repurposing hp cartridges. but if this printer thing actually grabs some traction, i can totally see hp EOLing every printer that uses them and ending new production of those cartridges.

creative commons doesn’t even recommend their licenses be used for software (it’s in their faq). i’m guessing the same would apply to hardware designs as well.

and they can be grafted back together to produce both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomato

every bypass to age-gating at youtube that i’ve used, tried, or looked at no longer works, and hasn’t for awhile.

… just this week, and it’s only monday!

if you don’t wanna watch a vid… eff has posted several articles over the years on the ‘tracking dots’ of printers: https://www.eff.org/issues/printers

dos ain’t done 'til lotus won’t run.