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From: Lee <ny6p01@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 20:25:27
Message-Id: CABpw4G8BROn4ZGTQ3mjHt4y0Pny48D8OR9d=PRq0oYSgxJgWyQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain. by tastytea
1 Who needs to go to the hassle maintaining a printer of their own, buying
2 cartridges, paper etc? I set up an online account at my neighborhood
3 Kinkos, and I just upload whatever docs I need and they print out in HD
4 whatever I need for pennies a page. Ymmv.
5
6 Lee 😎
7
8 On Thu, Sep 8, 2022, 11:05 AM tastytea <gentoo@××××××××.de> wrote:
9
10 > On 2022-09-08 12:52-0400 Alan Grimes <alonzotg@×××××××.net> wrote:
11 >
12 > > […]
13 > >
14 > > Right now linux is so broken that the CUPS web interface will deny
15 > > all attempts to administer the printer and reject any password. The
16 > > config file is written in moonspeak, I just need the motherfucking
17 > > thing to say yes when I tell it to do a thing. I expect it to take
18 > > 2-3 days just to get over this hurdle.
19 >
20 > I solved this problem by replacing the contents of every <Location>
21 > block with:
22 >
23 > Order allow,deny
24 > Allow localhost
25 > Allow from fd69:0:0:0:*
26 > Allow from 192.168.69.*
27 >
28 > > How can people actually go around installing linux on people's
29 > > computers as if they were doing them a favor when it really is this
30 > > bad?
31 >
32 > It's not bad at all if you use a distribution with a better default
33 > configuration, pre-installed drivers and a pre-installed GUI for setting
34 > up the automatically detected printer in less than 5 clicks.
35 > Unless you have a printer from a shitty company, of course.
36 >
37 >

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