Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

[Lee <ny6p01@gmail.com>]

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Who needs to go to the hassle maintaining a printer of their own, buying
cartridges, paper etc? I set up an online account at my neighborhood
Kinkos, and I just upload whatever docs I need and they print out in HD
whatever I need for pennies a page. Ymmv.

Lee 😎

On Thu, Sep 8, 2022, 11:05 AM tastytea <gentoo@tastytea.de> wrote:

> On 2022-09-08 12:52-0400 Alan Grimes <alonzotg@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > […]
> >
> > Right now linux is so broken that the CUPS web interface will deny
> > all attempts to administer the printer and reject any password. The
> > config file is written in moonspeak, I just need the motherfucking
> > thing to say yes when I tell it to do a thing. I expect it to take
> > 2-3 days just to get over this hurdle.
>
> I solved this problem by replacing the contents of every <Location>
> block with:
>
>   Order allow,deny
>   Allow localhost
>   Allow from fd69:0:0:0:*
>   Allow from 192.168.69.*
>
> > How can people actually go around installing linux on people's
> > computers as if they were doing them a favor when it really is this
> > bad?
>
> It's not bad at all if you use a distribution with a better default
> configuration, pre-installed drivers and a pre-installed GUI for setting
> up the automatically detected printer in less than 5 clicks.
> Unless you have a printer from a shitty company, of course.
>
>

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