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If it ain't broke don't fix it. Updates are the devil and break everything. Learned my lesson a few times over on that. Fuck!

If it ain't broke don't fix it. Updates are the devil and break everything. Learned my lesson a few times over on that. Fuck!

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[–] • 1 pt

Many variations of Linux are like that, update the kernel and printing and wifi breaks. Usually printing. Mint Linux is better than others that I have tested over the past 25 years, but printing breaks after every update of the kernel. Usually takes several hours to get printing going again with lots of tweeks. HP printers are the absolute worst and I am sure their "driverless" printers are what screw up CUPS.

[–] • 1 pt

Not sure what equipment you are printing with but I have had basically zero problems with consumer printers (Brother) for at least a decade on a half dozen different distro's and bases.

Now, the large format printers and specialty stuff... That breaks on any platform that is updated so it gets a non-networked PC with the software needed to run the printer.

[–] • 2 pts

Brother makes good quality products.. HP on the other hand puts out nothing but garbage. I'll never buy another HP device.

[–] • 0 pt

I have been saying that for over a decade and yet people still buy the shitty HP that they have to replace every 2 years or whatever. Spend a little extra, buy the Brother and stop worrying about it.

[–] • 0 pt

Why and how could a kennel update effect printing? A kennel update shouldn't effect CUPS either.

Please explain.

[–] • 1 pt

Poor design, bad stack, proprietary shit..etc. That and people that refuse to update critical infrastructure for 5+ years only to break everything the first time they update rather than going through a tested incremental process.

I have had to deal with it far, far too much in business. Don't buy an "appliance" and never update it.. The first time you do. The entire world will break and they will charge you a shit load of money to fix it for you.

[–] • 3 pts

Who the fuck wants smart TVs, smart fridges, smart cars, smart anything else? That could lock you out of your purchase just like that?

[–] • 3 pts

Exactly. However, its damn hard to buy a "not smart" tv these days. They make the "smart" ones a lot cheaper than the "dumb" ones because they want that data to sell and the control.

However, you always have the option of buying the "smart" one, not connecting it to the internet, then just attaching devices to it that you trust or build yourself for your media.

Also. Who the FUCK needs Twitter on their fucking refrigerator? What kind of stupid bullshit is that?

[–] • 0 pt

Sound quite dumb.. are the refrigerator doors giant displays? It could be useful for showing news/current events. I wouldn't mind being able to display recipes on the refrigerator doors. The refrigerator takes up a large amount of kitchen space, so I'm not opposed to the idea of maximizing its usefulness. Twitter isn't exactly useful though.

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I'm like that. I have a ten year old PC still running windows 8. I treat it like an appliance. I use it only for running Visual Studio. Anything else is a bonus. I haven't touched the hardware, haven't upgraded it, nothing. Now the problem is I'm getting notifications that pretty much everything is now out of support. I will continue using it until I can no longer perform my job using it.

Then what. Well, I'll probably change to a new Asus and load Linux and use Visual Studio Code. C# works just fine on Linux. And my new PC will decay because I will never touch it or upgrade it.

I never imagined getting over ten years of use out of a PC, yet here I am.

Oh, I forgot, I have an older PC running windows 7 on it. I use it only for printing on an old ink jet epson and the last version of Adobe Suite CS 6 that doesn't need to be connected to the cloud.