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I'm not really sure what information and controls these features enable, and this is more motivated from a "They have the functionality, so I want to make use of it if I can" rather than a specific need. But things like "estimated time to finish" could be nice.

The use of smart outlets is a clever idea to get some of this information..

Yeah, that was as far as my own research took me as well. Thought I'd give it a shot to see if anyone had figured out how to or knew whether it was possible.

I did not buy these devices for these features at all, so no great loss, but would be nice to make use of it if I could.

That sounds awesome

tmux has been on my to-learn list forever now. Seems it should be bumped up in priority.

NetworkManager was not installed on my system, but I will look into this later and check out nmcli and nmtui (as suggested below) to get familiar with these tools.

I don't think it uses netplan.io - it is a very standard Debian server install - netplan.io being Canonical, I guess that would typically be found on Ubuntu installs?

nmtui sounds nice. I didn't end up installing NetworkManager now, but it is something I will look more into, so I've noted it down. Learning networks is a big goal for this year.

‘ip a’ to show your active addresses

Nice, now only my ethernet interface shows an IP after implementing the changes to etc/network/interfaces as described in an edit in the OP.

rfkill to hard disable wireless devices

rfkill was also not isntalled by default on my server, but I've installed it now and see that they (i.e. bluetooth and wifi) are unblocked, so I will now go learn how to block them. :)

nmtui if you want a simple way to change network configuration or disable something

Nice, I will check this out!

Tech Broligarchy*

Thanks! That worked right away :) I have also entered the correct environment variable in Flatseal now, and it opens as expected now from the desktop shortcut.

Just to explain why they’re stored there: you’re trying to change the config of the sandbox itself not the app. Flatpak manages the sandbox and it is flatpak that needs to know what permission an app should have. Any files in “~/.var/app/…” pertain to the app itself inside it’s sandbox.

Thanks for this explanation! I love Linux after having used it for two years now, but the sheer amount of things to know about is quite overwhelming when I don't always have too much time to spend on learning. It doesn't always feel like I'm getting any better (although I know that is not true), but comments such as yours is certainly helping people like me become better users :)

If you only consider the print performance, sure. But the point here is that you pay a hidden fee when going with more locked down solutions, and you should factor that into your assessment of the price as well. You might still end up with the same conclusion, but for me, avoiding enshitification traps is worth a lot more than a penny.

At least in the DMCA I believe

Cheers, it looks like I will have to open up this week end then and forget about these cleaning programs.

Time to print out your commit history and show Zuck how many lines of code you wrote last month!

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried this, and nothing happened. I think it might only work for the printers with an LCD-display? Mine does not have that (does yours?), and I remember reading somewhere that to do that hardcore cleaning (I can't recall what they called it), I would need to run it using either Windows or macOS.

Thanks for that! I'm not quite sure what the dummy cartridge is, however, and how I would access it. Would you be able to elaborate on that?

Well, after having run the print cleaner, now the problem is worse, and it also won't print yellow... wth?

Thanks, I'll try that if I can't get anywhere with this. After a long time, now it suddenly seems to detect it upon a random retry after dealing with some other stuff for several hours, although it reports some weird values (e.g. all tanks are empty, when they are about 3/4 full for black and 4/5 full for rest). I've managed to start the head cleaner now at least, so we'll see where that leads.

Forgejo for self-hosted source control?

That is configurable. Settings > Privacy > Query in the page's title

It is fairly recent, as the solo dev of DivestOS and its applications (including Mull and Mulch) stopped development. I moved to Fennec for now.

The best and brightest in an area for the pay the companies are willing to pay is not the same as the best and brightest (you are adding a lot of constraints). A lot of times those people will be quite average (or mediocre). By definition, most people are average or close to it. If a company is not willing to pay to attract and retain the actual best and brightest (as many will not), they are left with mediocrity. The companies will often still be able to make a lot of money, because companies in general do not need the best and brightest just to avoid failure and bankruptcy.

Will once innovative companies become worse companies and provide worse services/products? Absolutely. Will they be left behind by better companies who do attract the best and brightest? Sometimes, depending on the industry and the depths of the moats they have built and the number of aligators guarding their monopolies (e.g. regulatory capture and other monopolistic behavior). Will they go bankrupt? Sometimes, but in general it takes more than to just settle into a mediocrity.