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  • Conversely, I have a recent-ish (<5yrs old) Brother inkjet printer that’s waiting to be dumped to recycling because it arbitrarily decided that it didn’t ever need to be discoverable or respond to any print requests one day, and so even though there was nothing mechanically wrong with it, even hooking up a Raspberry Pi to run CUPS over USB didn’t fix the issue – because Brother explicitly refuses to publish drivers for the Raspberry Pi, and their inkjet drivers are proprietary.

    I’ve since replaced it with the best-reviewed Epson printer I could find that supports a generic PCL driver, so that if Epson ever loses their minds in the way Brother did, I can fall back on an open-source implementation of good ol’ PCL.

    That thing’s given us no issues so far.





  • Knee surgery that wasn’t on his radar, his team’s radar, or his agent’s radar until he was told that the rookie was gonna get a shot to start next game.

    Sure, fine, take your elective season-ending surgery, but don’t try to play it like you had to leave, or like the team and coach that covered for you all season long and gave you a wildly-improbably second chance at being a starter when the rest of the league already knew you were broken somehow owed you something. You got paid millions to live every backup’s dream – a shot at becoming the guy – and your coach stuck by you long after you blew that chance.

    Then you go and make yourself totally unavailable even to be on the bench for the new kid who got comp’d to you and looks up to you?

    I really don’t understand how Mariota got his “he’s a nice guy” reputation, except maybe by contrast to Jameis because they were in the same draft class.