I'm helping a friend in configuring a new HP printer but after multiple hours of attempts we're still having serious issues: the print refuses to print anything colored and the app get stuck when I try to open printer settings or diagnostics, multiple reinstalls and different version failed to help.

In multiple online places I read how HP printers got worse with aggressive DRM, pushing of subscriptions and other BS. On top of that the setup of the printer seems pointlessly convoluted: instead of installing a driver and letting Windows printing dialog handle the rest this printer insists in installing a sort of HP "virtual printer" which redirects any printing request to their (fragile) app which is the piece of software that ultimately communicates with the printer.

I'm not sure whether this pile of pointless complexity has something to do with the problems I'm encountering but at this point I'm out of options (even because we live 300km apart so all I can do is help her by phone and RustDesk). I'm considering to convince her in returning the printer to the store (a big box electronic store which a permissive return policy) and to avoid another "lemon" get it replaced with a printer of a different brand.

Do you have any advice of a more customer friendly printer brand?

My adaption of uxn4 for the xteink x3 is now available at https://qrvhu.org/

Direct links:
Firmware: https://qrvhu.org/eink/uxn4-x3.bin
Source: https://qrvhu.org/eink/uxn4-xteink-x3.tar.gz
Notes: https://qrvhu.org/eink/uxn4-x3.png

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We are proud to announce that masto.nyc now has its own Android App! This is a fork from the mainline Mastodon that is a bit more tailored to the Masto NYC experience. Give it a try and we would love to hear any feedback!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nyc.masto.android

- This app is complementary to the greater Fediverse app ecosystem. Using it isn't, and never will be a requirement to use masto.nyc

- iOS is also in the works

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That I have a thousand questions not answered by their website and that are not helped by the fact that they are presently closed source.

They say that there's no "middleman" while they act as a middleman. I don't mind that they act as a middleman, but they are pretty clearly acting as a middleman here while claiming there isn't one.

The basic idea, however, is functionally sound. Run a centralized queue that can be consumed from by downstream devices. It's one way to do multitenant solutions, though it isn't my favorite.

It does make me curious about how that queue is set up, however. There are some fairly serious downsides to this approach that I'm curious how they are obviating, and it doesn't allow you to take advantage of how these systems scale in practice.

@warren great plan!

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A user "sender" needs the following permissions set to send a ZFS dataset:

# zfs allow -u sender send,snapshot txpool

On the receiving side, the user "receiver" requires these permissions:

# zfs allow -u receiver compression,mountpoint,mount,create,receive rxpool

-- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>

@kktk the documentation is good - but they need to read it first :-)

@catavz Well, I don't know. But it's good and already digested :-)

@bsdtv I agree. I mean: I'm a consultant, so I'm open to consulting. But if you're paying a lot of money to [BIGTECH] that messed up, find me because someone (or the Internet) told you I can fix it and you want to pay me just some spare change, you'd better continue with your useless and disruptive token-burning agent.

@onepict True. Years ago, "it's an easy task! The 12 years old son of my friend could do it".
My reply was: "Let him do that, but don't call me when everything will be gone".

At times, it happened. Sometimes, they just went out of business.

@stefano Remind of this now classic cartoon

@greg They mostly work off of pooling of hardware resources with more flexible virtual instances. Sometimes the database can be shared with schemas. That kind of thing.

@bladecoder totally!

@subnetspider that's what I'm suspecting, too. They said "it doesn't boot anymore". Or the agent used dd to write the boot code but mistakenly overwrote something more than the boot code.