this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
1661 points (98.9% liked)

AssholeDesign

7547 readers
2 users here now

This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
1661
A light of wholesomeness shining in a bleak dystopian hellscape (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
100 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Njudah on Instagram

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hot news, linux is incredibly compatible with printers. CUPS is very well designed. With relatively little technical knowledge you could probably plug a raspberry pi into virtually any old printer and get it running with the Pi as a print server sharing it with the network.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never thought I'd see the day when it's easier to get a printer working in Linux than Windows. How the turntables.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's actually been the case for 20 years now. Same with lots of other devices.

Around 2008-ish I saw a Tesco-branded webcam for something like 5€. I was just in need of one, so I looked up if it's not, by any chance Linux compatible. It was, right out of the box.

Same thing with Sony Ericsson phones of that era. Capable of lots of things, like Ethernet over USB or Mass Storage, but with Windows it all needed a massive and annoying driver package. Linux - plug and go.

Same with Bluetooth and lots of other things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

you could probably plug a raspberry pi into virtually any old printer and get it running with the Pi as a print server sharing it with the network.

Hey, that might be a good project to try. I've got a Pi that's unused :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

we’ve done this with our router at home. Plug the printer into the router’s USB (has to be direct tho, doesn’t like a hub) and then install the drivers on my mac and it works. Even though this printer is an ancient brother.