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It's ironic but unsurprising, and my experience too, that some functionality works better with Nouveau than with the proprietary Nvidia drivers.
If you haven't already, check for Nouveau support. And if your card is supported, you may need a kernel parameter. I needed nouveau.config=NvClkMode=15 (but be warned some parameters like that have some risk, like possibility of overheating, and may or may not be applicable or safe for your GPU).
For me, it has worked to just set environment variable DRI_PRIME=1 to use the Nvidia GPU for that specific application. (Maybe this is what Bumblebee does; I don't know.)
In the future, though, I recommend avoiding Nvidia hardware.
As I mentioned in another comment, in my experience Nouveau does a much better job with multi-display and multi-GPU systems than Nvidia's proprietary drivers. Unfortunately Nouveau's actual hardware support is somewhat limited, so that is only relevant for a subset of Nvidia GPUs.
I, too, don't want any more Nvidia hardware.
In my experience they just work once you install proprietary drivers
That's not my experience with dual-GPU (Intel+Nvidia) hardware and multiple displays, where the standard xrandr functions are often used to modify the output configuration.
In my case, the Nvidia GPU is supported by Nouveau, so I can compare it with Nvidia's proprietary drivers "side-by-side". With Nouveau, display output configuration and per-application GPU selection both "just work" (I did add a nouveau.config kernel parameter to enable acceleration). I've never been able to make the proprietary drivers do those things reliably.
So I suggest that users with simple single-display, single-GPU systems are likely to have a better experience with the proprietary drivers.
As is the general consensus here, I do not plan to purchase any Nvidia GPU hardware in the future, especially considering that more recent Nvidia GPUs now require signed firmware, making Nouveau support impossible.
restic does do deduplication.
Look at non-multi-function "Enterprise" laser printers. They are completely different than the consumer grade garbage.
I recommend an HP LaserJet Enterprise Mxxx printer, color or not, that is listed on the HPLIP All Supported Printer Models page.
You can find lightly used, older model ones on Ebay, sometimes even with a full toner cartridge(s), for much less than new price.
HP is still releasing firmware updates even for many older models, and the firmware is loaded with features (for example, if it is connected to your network, network printing works from Android and Apple phones without requiring any special apps). The firmware does not depend on any remote service.
If you even need them, the Linux drivers are free and open source and packaged in Debian main (for example); your don't have to install some weird closed source garbage that won't work in a few years.
People here are recommending Brother, but I don't think they have free and open source drivers (think "nouveau vs. Nvidia"). Am I incorrect about that? In my experience, this can become a significant problem as software moves forward but the company does not continue to support their Linux binary driver.
Just FYI, Signal (Open Whisper Systems) is not FOSS-friendly. The server-side software is not open source, they refuse to federate with other Signal implementations, and they are unfriendly to forks. See: