I have done this when our drip coffee maker broke. I liked it, but my wife didn't. So we got a new coffee maker.

Barracuda by Heart

#SlideRules

Just because someone else wrote it, doesn't mean it's a good implementation, or worth bringing its pile or dependencies into your project.

I thought all the comments about “Bester” were about Bester from the Firefly episode “Out Of Gas”. Guess I need to check out Babylon 5.

I hope so!

Microblogging doesn’t seem to me to be a good model for community engagement. Like you say, it’s a big room with people yelling, so it’s hard to understand more than a snippet of what one person is saying.

Mastodon is better than Twitter/X, but I think that is mostly because more people on Mastodon are there with the intent to find more meaningful engagement. That advantage is decreasing as more of the Lowest Common Denominator signs on.

This. If the printer supports IPP Everywhere, you should be good to go.

You also might check Brother’s web site to see if they have Linux drivers for the printer you’re looking at. Installing the drivers is a bit of a hassle, but once installed, they work great. But IPP Everywhere is easy and also works well.

In general, Ubuntu is my go-to when I just want something that works and is reasonably stable. Just pick the spin with the Desktop Environment that you like. I'm using KDE Neon (I realize Neon isn't an Ubuntu flavor or spin) on my daily driver laptop, and Ubuntu MATE on my desktop. I also have an old netbook that usually gets Xubuntu, but currently has Fedora 37 XFCE as an experiment.

It sure is nice that we have to option to distro-hop, either on bare metal or in a VM.

When I was in high school, I would say, “If this is the best time of my life, I’m in real trouble later on.”

Despite responsibilities and back pain, I am enjoying my 50s more than my teen years. I was a lot more carefree back then, but I that’s just because I didn’t know what I didn’t know.

Star Trek: TOS