Who needs to go to the hassle maintaining a printer of their own, buying cartridges, paper etc? I set up an online account at my neighborhood Kinkos, and I just upload whatever docs I need and they print out in HD whatever I need for pennies a page. Ymmv.
Lee 😎 On Thu, Sep 8, 2022, 11:05 AM tastytea <gen...@tastytea.de> wrote: > On 2022-09-08 12:52-0400 Alan Grimes <alonz...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > […] > > > > Right now linux is so broken that the CUPS web interface will deny > > all attempts to administer the printer and reject any password. The > > config file is written in moonspeak, I just need the motherfucking > > thing to say yes when I tell it to do a thing. I expect it to take > > 2-3 days just to get over this hurdle. > > I solved this problem by replacing the contents of every <Location> > block with: > > Order allow,deny > Allow localhost > Allow from fd69:0:0:0:* > Allow from 192.168.69.* > > > How can people actually go around installing linux on people's > > computers as if they were doing them a favor when it really is this > > bad? > > It's not bad at all if you use a distribution with a better default > configuration, pre-installed drivers and a pre-installed GUI for setting > up the automatically detected printer in less than 5 clicks. > Unless you have a printer from a shitty company, of course. > >
