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• Post #2831016

  Here is another testimonial of my work at OpenPrinting! Nick from @thelinuxexperiment has posted a video about the desktop software he uses for his day-to-day tasks on his Linux machine and at 19:24 min he tells how easy it was to use his HP multi-function printer on Linux with the KDE desktop and that, despite he considers printers "terrible", they always worked for him under Linux, while under Windows it was a nightmare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2RXI7yuIQI&...

• Post #2468999

  @sjvn Reminds me to back in the early 90s, when I had my first 80386 with MS DoS (MicroSoft Denial of Service, 4.0?) and I had to add these lines, too, so that all the RAM got used. Well different nowadays where you just boot from a Linux USB stick (Ubuntu, Fedora, ...) and everything gets set up to just work ... #MSDoS

• Post #1850927

  @lgm Will this printer be on display on the event? Does it support driverless IPP printing, so that one can print from Linux or from a phone to it? #OpenPrinting

• Post #1850926

  @Jill_linuxgirl And at 01:00:52 you see that they really do it 100% open source now, after my hint of that PhotoPea is NOT 100% Open Source, Ryan has switched to the GIMP!!! Congratulations!! It is always fun every Wed to stay up 2am-3am (CEST) for the live production, and help Ryan, Jill, and Zeb a bit ... #OpenPrinting

• Post #1850923

  @duke_of_germany Herzog von Deutschland, that is a bug. Especially these comment fields, description and location, should accept UTF-8 text, as many people want to fill them in their language, even worse for those who speak Greek, Hindi, ... (In German one can still work around with "Mein Buero", but this also only if one gets a clear error message so that one knows that the problem is the non-ASCII character in this field). So please report a bug on https://github.com/Open...

• Post #1850922

  @itisiboller @duke_of_germany Und wenn der Bug dann gefixed ist, dann kannst du natürlich auch "Scheiße" in das "Description"-Feld schreiben, aber dann solttest Du wirklich darüber nachdenken, ob Du dir besser einen anderen Drucker (z. B. mit weniger Cartridge-DRM) anschaffen solltest ... #OpenPrinting

• Post #1850918

  @dbat @duke_of_germany CUPS ist ja "Common Unix Printing System". Damit ist das Problem hier, dass die Amerikaner den Deutschen beim Betriebssystem-erstellen zuvor gekommen sind. Sonst hätte es Ünix geheissen und dann hätten wir auch CÜPS und es wäre von Anfang an auch an UTF-8 für Description und Location gedacht worden. Beim drucken von Textdateien wurde übrigens schon viele Jahre UTF-8 unterstützt. #OpenPrinting

• Post #1850915

  @duke_of_germany Thanks for the bug report. It is a bug in CUPS, as, with CUPS generally accepting and preferring UTF-8, it should also accept UTF-8 in the "Description" and "Location" fields. #OpenPrinting

• Post #1850913

  @ernmander @linuxflower @AKernelPanic I liked your little article a lot! Nice reminder of good old times ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P22DOu_ahBo And it is always great to meet you, @linuxflower on the conferences! Me, the long-time Ubuntu and Thunderbird user ... @thunderbird #OpenPrinting

• Post #1850911

  Nirav Patel: Now let's talk about something a little different. One of the things we look for, when we are deciding which product categories we will build next, is seeing what you are most frustrated with. We know there are a lot of categories in consumer electronics that don't work the way you want them to. Products that you have to use every day but you don't actually like using. There's one product we keep hearing about that stands out above all of the others....

• Post #1850909

  @tuxfanmatze Thank you very much! #OpenPrinting

• Post #1537035

  #OpenPrinting is present on #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025, Feb 1-2 in Brussels/Belgium! Not only I am there but Akarshan Kapoor is giving a lightning talk about scanner support in #PAPPL, on Sat, Feb 1, 12:10-12:25 (building H, room 2215, Ferrer): https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6435-scaniverse-universal-scanner-drivers-one-solution-for-every-distro/ You will find me and also Soumyadeep Ghosh at the #Ubuntu booth, building K, ground floor, booth K1-A-3.

• Post #902848

  Nuch worse than the foreign router ban: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhz6vao13bs Did free speech reach its end? #OpenPrinting

• Post #829536

  Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed! As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fellows of the Linux Foundation for this. Up to now I was working at Canonical, hired back in 2006 just to run OpenPrinting and also to maintain printing-related Ubuntu packages. ... 🧵 Please boost. #OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired

• Post #614476

  @oneloop@mastodon.xyz You have replaced the auto-creation of your print queue by cups-browsed by just creating a permanent CUPS queue for your printer in driverless IPP (IPP Everywhere) mode. This is more reliable. #OpenPrinting

• Post #576264

  @TheOneDoc@tech.lgbt @mntmn@mastodon.social @BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social And in no way I want to say that Brodie's videos are useless (sorry, Brodie, if some of the comments here made that impression). Many subject matters are important to be made aware of. And in case that one of the videos you did not like so much, in the end you always learn how to free up some storage space ...

• Post #574475

  @stack@mstdn.social @smallsco@oldbytes.space This covers the front panel of your smart fridge, so you do not see the ads it plays and also the camera does not see any fat on your face or on your body and therefore locks the door ... So you print from an old Mac to a Linux server? #OpenPrinting

• Post #416711

  I have found an interesting video about the xz backdoor, which got discovered on Easter 2024: https://youtu.be/aoag03mSuXQ The video starts with a jammed printer, but it is not my fault ... I had also blogged about it, with a lot of interesting links: https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-March-2024/

• Post #353113

  @popey@mastodon.social Is that an emulation of RISC-V on an x86 machine?How is the performance of the desktop? It is comparable to an actual RISC-V SoC? And could one also emulate S390x with QEMU? Or should one look into implementing RISC-V or S390x with an FPGA?

• Post #342301

  @jnsgruk@hachyderm.io @popey@mastodon.social No self-3D-printing required. There is a case from CoolerMaster which fits a @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org 13 motherboard so that you can use it like a PC. I got a (now older) RISC-V motherboard from @deepcomputingio@bird.makeup 's CEO Yuning Liang on FOSDEM 2025 for testing printing on RISC-V and I got it in such a case. The case has Wi-Fi antennas (with adapter to connect to the board), VESA (100 mm) mount, stand. No RISC(V), no fun! #Ope...

• Post #337763

  The Linux Foundation got accepted as GSoC mentoring organization this year, so we from OpenPrinting will also mentor again! We have amazing project opportunities on tap! - Printing integration in the COSMIC desktop (implemented in Rust). - OSS-Fuzz with AI-generate test harnesses - C++-free PDF renderer, permissive license - system-config-printer for CUPS 3.x - Cloud Native packaging of CUPS and printer drivers - Modern web site for OpenPrinting https://github.com/LinuxFoundationGSoC/ProjectI...

• Post #336379

  @LinuxMagazinPod@social.linux-magazin.de @marius@social.nerdzoom.media @csi@social.linux-magazin.de Carina, so, und nachdem du uns in Folge 1 (1:37:00h) so schön von deiner Erfahrung mit dem HP OfficeJet Schieß-Mich-Tot (der fehlt übrigens noch auf unserer Liste unterstützter Drucker) berichtet hast, blieb uns nichts anderes übrig, als diese Folge zu machen. Ich kann allerdings nichts gegen agressiv erzwungene Razors-and-Blades-Geschäftsmodelle tun. https://www.linux-magazin.de/podcast/lmp00...

• Post #334090

  @LinuxMagazinPod@social.linux-magazin.de @marius@social.nerdzoom.media Vielen Dank für die Einladung. Liebe Sys-Admins, wenn Ihr jetzt im Podcast gehört habt, dass ihr keinen Grund mehr habt, vor diesem Thema wegzurennen, und stets aktualisiert sein möchtet, folgt doch einfach diesem schönen Hashtag: #OpenPrinting Wegrennen könnt ihr vor vielen anderen Dingen ...

• Post #332425

  @MichaelChrist@gruene.social Erinnert mich an Rio de Janeiro ...

• Post #332307

  @mmu_man@m.g3l.org @bayartb@mastodon.xyz ... mirrored carbon copy on the front side of the "matrice". This "matrice" you put into the alcohol duplicator to make the actual copies onto special sheets for alcohol duplication. Note that to create the carbon copy on the "matrice" you NEED an impact printer (dot matrix "pin" printer, daisy wheel printer, line printer, typewriter, hand drawing/writing with pressure), as non-impact printers (inkjet, laser) wi...

• Post #330147

  @mmu_man@m.g3l.org @bayartb@mastodon.xyz This reminds me to my time at school in the late 70s and in the 80s. But we from @OpenPrinting are not able to make it work with Linux. Sorry.

• Post #329454

  @marius@social.nerdzoom.media hat mich interviewed für den Podcast des Linux Magazins. Wir haben über #OpenPrinting gesprochen, wie es vor einem Vierteljahrhundert los ging, was wir machen, unsere Entwicklergemeinde, die Rolle der #OpportunityOpenSource Konferenzen, die ich organisiere, meine Entlassung von Canonical, die Unterstützung durch die @sovtechfund@mastodon.social und wie es weiter gehen wird, insbesondere mit der @linuxfoundation@social.lfx.dev ... https://www.linux-magazin.de/podca...