Why? Just Why?

Good work. I tried to do similarly with a HP CP1025nw (roughly 10 years old), which has become unreliable with Windows 11. But although I connected the printer to the Pi (I used a model 3B) with a USB cable, CUPS does not appear to see the “usb://…” connection string. CUPS does allow me to connect to the printer wirelessly, with a connection string that begins “dnssd://…”.

So I have it working wirelessly but I was hoping to get it using USB since I suspect that would be more reliable.

I’m wondering why your Pi allows the “usb://…” method, but mine does not.

Top work

This may be a ploy for Trump to avoid the debates, since he knows he’s likely to lose as in 2020. Biden refuses the drug test, Trump then refuses to debate…

Reading today that the indictment/summons has now been served on him.

The Arizona prosecutor’s office has been trying and failing to serve indictment paperwork on him for the election interference case in that state. Lying low it would seem.

nice work

This Slashdot post about ghost jobs won’t help you find a job but it may shed some light on a current problem. I’m in the US now but my son is looking and running into this phenomenon. I imagine it happens with the job posting sites in Ireland too.

International phone calls. Actually long distance domestic phone calls too.

I think we have to acknowledge that even though there have been some close games, the quality of rugby in this year’s 6 Nations is poor compared to recent years. The Scotland-England game today seemed mostly made up of hoisting high kicks in hopes of creating an error rather than anything creative. This is taking nothing away from van der Merwe’s individual contribution. Even Ireland who were obviously better than Wales struggled for nearly 30 minutes after half time. We need better rugby!

That was France’s worst home loss of the 6 Nations era in terms of points difference (21 vs previous 10 to Wales in 2013). I’ve watched Ireland play France dozens of times and never seen Ireland dominate physically like that.

Splendid

YouTube has been blocking me for a couple of months now, with one or two short breaks. I have Firefox and uBlock Origin. Even after I whitelisted YouTube, the blocking continues.

Texas called, and wants their book back

So I think this will make it 31 changes of manager/coach at Forest in 20 years. Probably won’t work any better than the previous ones.

Stupid bit of code but to call it RACISM is a bit much

…aaaand it didn’t work. Not to say that they lost the game because of this, but they didn’t seem to get any of the advantages expected from it. A couple of big scrums was about the height of it. It turns out that you can’t win a top level test match without a goal kicker, no matter what tricks you pull.

“30 million rugby fans” in the US? I don’t believe it.

The rest of the tournament all seems a bit flat compared to that. Completely absorbing for 80 minutes. Pure mental strength was the winning of it for Ireland.

Good to see those corners gone, they contributed nothing to the racing. In 2013 I had a ticket for the grandstand there and only used it for 20 minutes of FP1: you got to see each car for about 6 seconds, absolutely useless. I happily gave up the seat and just watched the rest of the weekend from various standpoints around other parts of the track.