Genuine question, are there any "just hit print" open source printers on the market yet? I don't have the time for maintaining a printer on it's own, which is why I've enjoyed my A1 mini so much (it just works), but I'm of the same opinion as you and would love a viable open-source alternative.
I hate having to run my own backups. That's been a massively hidden cost behind self hosting that I did not originally account for. Anything sufficiently robust is expensive and anything cheap is unreliable (at least at the scales of data I have, 4k+ RAW videos and photos are massive).
I'm not saying I like this trend or design, but I feel we're all lacking a few hundred TBs of the apple analytics data that would be required to make an informed decision on this design choice for their user base.
You can run a service on the same port with less processing overhead than a reverse proxy. Additionally it provides you some benefit in domain separation. For $25 I'd pick up one or two, couldn't hurt to have in the pocket and there are only so many of them afterall.
The explanation is guys in marketing buying fancy lunches and rounds of golf for the guys in C-Suite (Source: A tired IT admin that has had to talk his management team off of this cliff due to fancy tech demo dinners from unsolicited cloud/software companies)
Let us not forget that there is not a single employer on the planet who would willingly hire and pay someone more for their time than that person's time is worth. Each employee of a company is making that company money. They deserve comfort because they are the company.
😂 fair enough. I've been /mostly/ enjoying the 1-connector for everything revolution myself. It is kind of annoying that I have to specifically search for cable brands that print what parts of the usb c standard they support on them though.
As someone who does understand the business negotiations and software implementations, you have some of the issue correctly diagnosed but you're placing the responsibility on the wrong person lol.
Amd makes the drivers for both Linux and Windows brotha.... So Microsoft wasn't able to fix something the open source community in collab with amd could?...
You literally, and I do not mean this in a non-literal sense, but you literally accepted and gave them the capability of doing this when you accepted the terms and conditions. If you did not like those terms and conditions, there are literally hundreds of completely open source options at the ready that would be amazing products to support with your funding/wallet.
Genuine question, are there any "just hit print" open source printers on the market yet? I don't have the time for maintaining a printer on it's own, which is why I've enjoyed my A1 mini so much (it just works), but I'm of the same opinion as you and would love a viable open-source alternative.