my point is, we have already examples with years long headstart that shoulda replaced the unrepairable solutions - framework and fairphone. this thing is only relevant if it can replace existing solutions, like the current crop of use-once-then-throw-away printers.

them two demonstrated they didn’t even make a dent in the market, they just made the famous xkcd comic afresh relevant.

we don’t need a $1000 repairable framework; it’s repairable only with expensive framework shit that isn’t globally available, and - save for RAM, SSD, Wifi - is proprietary. so that whole “repairable” thing is just academic, and more of a sales slogan.

what is globally available are hundreds of thousands of discarded thinkpads, infinitely repairable machines of superior build quality, with cross-generational parts compatibility available worldwide that can be had for cheap. only thing is, you can’t make tonsa money from that.

we don’t need a $700 repairable fairphone with the same premise - only fairphone parts that with shipping cost stupendously - when there are millions of competent discarded devices that can be had for less than 10% of its price and whose parts are globally available for pocket change.

so, to apply this analogy, we don’t need another printer when there are oceans of discarded tanks in the form of old deskjet and laserjet printers, made in the olden times when planned obsolescence was just bad business; wanna opensource something, do it with the most common breakable parts.

as I’m writing this, I’m looking at a HP Deskjet 1280, a 20-year old fucking tank made outta steel and hard plastic that’ll outlive us both. its cartridges are forever refillable and the only thing that breaks here are some rubber bands that cost pennies.

finally, printer demand is in sharp decline, and thankfully so. reams of paper being daily wasted on nothing by businesses around the planet should soon be a thing of the past.

I am illustrating how two decades old stuff is still usable and you’re being obtuse.

molly (a signal fork) allows linking phones and tablets as secondary devices

ai;dr

there’s this community !mediatheque@feddit.org where movies and shows get posted, on arte, zdf, etc. the urls are usually geoblocked, but yt-dlp works without issues for the majority of them,

I really don’t know how to make this simple concept any clearer - there is NO need to make ANY more printers, of ANY kind, be they bio-compostable or not, running on angel tears and rainbows or whatever.

I dumpster dive and over the past six months I got five ancient printers (10-20 year old) that got thrown out, laser, inkjet and multifunction ones. all of them perfectly usable, work fine, easily serviceable (never done that prior to getting them), refillable with the cheapest options available. I struggle to see any application for which those things aren’t good for.

having ANOTHER printer getting manufactured and sold when all the printers we’re ever gonna need are already produced and out there in the world is a thing that’s sorely not needed.

there is so. much. shit. already about, we don’t need another one, like this thing and fairphone and framework and whatever. we’re drowning in already produced things, nerfed by their manufacturers into bricks that can and should be repurposed by opensource solutions.

but that’s not where you can make money, so they’re instead latching onto trends, like “open” and “repairable”, both of which are nothingburgers.

a infinitely small percentile of users actually need the newest & best, the rest of us are fine with decade+ old hardware that can serve us a decade more.

valid and no love for those fucks, but you’ll find that practically every media outlet is owned or controlled by the forces of evil. on the other hand, politico didn’t start as an AS wing, it got acquired. plus, there’s not a lot of places real journos can work at.

we’re in deep into the enshittocene, there is no other solution than to treat every source with the same healthy scepticism and distance you’d apply in the school yard - “oh yeah?”, “how come?”, “says who?”, etc.

compartmentalize. if your group chat can’t meet IRL at a physical table, it’s too large, divide it into smaller operative units.

just gave it a cursory look, will look further, thank you. couldn’t find the details on client load/traffic; we can’t burden these people with excessive network traffic just because it might be needed one day.

thanks. this looks good, I can swear I searched the wiki and missed it somehow

supporting 400+ laptops from previously tech-illiterate users in the field. we tried everything for remote patching and fixing things and nothing worked universally. that includes stuff shipped with them (ssh, Gnome and Plasma RDP, VNC, etc) and 3rd party FOSS things. wireguard-ing all them laptops for remote access introduces buncha complications at this scale.

only thing that works: bring it to the “shop”, ansible script to exfil home subvolume, install fresh ubuntu (working on replacing that with debian), patch snap and bunch of other annoyances, restore /home.

seeing as how you only got grams and co. to take care of, wireguard + ssh is the only low-overhead, works-most-of-the-time solution.

once we have a reliable way of “hey what should we do about this?” and people instantly giving direct feedback, the intermediaries - congress, senat, whateverthefuck - aren’t needed no more

honestly with their whole military! fuck yeah!1!! spiel, they can get fucked. along with all other corpos with their gaping assholes to cram evermore cash into them, and that includes element the corp; they got the other fetish - cops.

honestly, you should give less info. what’s your hardware? what PSU? drivers? X11, wayland? what’s that “running again” business, what was the issue before?

old joke, might be related… the space agency sends three pigs and a bro to space. they travel along their route and after a while control radios in:

control: pig 1, enable telemetry

pig 1: oink

control: pig 2, check perimeter

pig 2: oink

control: pig 3, reverse thrusters 10%

pig 3: oink

control: bro!

bro: sup

control: feed the pigs, don’t touch nothin’

took one look, said needs an external video/voice provider (e.g. zoom, jitsi,…), said bye.

leave it dormant, don’t cost you nothing; check it every month or so.

dual booting is an advanced scenario especially with a hostile OS like Windows and it doesn’t soundlike you got the expertise to fix shit. if your livelihood/education/etc depends on it, you should steer clear of such an adventure, unless you’re in abject poverty.

get a $50 decade-old laptop and use it to run either of the OS, exclusively. it will give you a fallback solution if something breaks and you can figure out how to run that cancer on linux without endangering the primary rig.