How would you suggest I respond in the future?

We have a person, claiming that CUPS doesn’t work and they now uninstall it on every installation.

There is no context, no data, no information that suggests what the issue is, what they tried, when this occurred, on which platform, under which conditions.

In other words, the user was essentially saying “CUPS sux”.

Having used Linux as my main system for over 25 years, that sentiment did not match my own experience, does not help anyone, not me, not the user and not the OP who was trying to solve a problem, let alone anyone else reading along.

I responded accordingly.

This has not been my experience … at … all.

Perhaps it would be helpful to discover what exactly doesn’t work for you and fix that, rather than remove CUPS because one time it didn’t work for you seven years ago.

You could print to CUPS from the other devices and potentially bypass all those shenanigans.

Also, CUPS has a PDF printer which saves you from even heating up your printer at all … I haven’t had a printer in my life for over 25 years.

It uses a security feature of Linux called cgroups or control groups to limit access to resources at a kernel level.

It’s used all over the place, including as the basis of Docker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups

There’s a common but persistent misconception that Docker is like running a virtual machine. This is understandable but incorrect.

A better way to think of it is as a security wrapper around an untrusted process.

If you look at your running processes whilst a container is running, you’ll see the processes inside the container running on your “host” machine - remember, it’s not a host - guest situation.

There is no relationship between the user inside the container, unless you start mapping the UID and GID.

The only exception to this is the root user which shares the UID/GID with the actual root user.

See: https://www.howtogeek.com/devops/why-processes-in-docker-containers-shouldnt-run-as-root/

Edit: I suspect, but don’t know for sure, that the root user inside the container is actually the same user as the one running the Docker process, which is typically the root user on the “host”.

1. The Docker container should change the user to an internal one (created by the build stage) and the process should run as that user.
2. The uid and gid can be specified at runtime.

See: https://www.docker.com/blog/understanding-the-docker-user-instruction/

And we’re still stuck with its aftermath in that search engines require quotes rather than a + for requiring words, which they now ignore whenever the mood strikes.

Why?

Because some fuckwit at Google decided that the + was reserved for Google+ search results.

Stayin’ Alive - Bee Gees

Pointer Acceleration Profile and Sensitivity should be able to be adjusted to suit your requirements.

Very interesting. This appears to finally move online payment processing away from MasterCard and Visa.

Except that in civil discussion with experts, other ideas are what helps people arrive at a solution suitable for them and their situation.

I’ll also add that I’ve been a Linux user for 25 years and the toxicity you claim in relation to the Linux community is in my experience not evident as a “major reason”, instead I’ve found it to be innovative and flexible with a wide perspective and approach to problem solving.

Are there dickheads in the Linux community? Yes, just like there are everywhere in society.

I think all public funds that generate data and/or software needs to be public.

The notion that maintenance is an issue is a red herring. Proprietary software purchased by government requires ongoing support contracts right until the vendor discontinues the product and leaves the public funds to prop up another billionaire.

Open source would also stimulate the economy since businesses could benefit from the project and use or apply it to their use, something which currently requires more investment with the same vendor.

So … you are basing you hypothesis on an article about Pedophile hunters written in German (or Swiss if you want to get frisky) that you linked using an English headline and summary in a software development community?

I’m surprised that your post wasn’t removed.

I’m mentioning this because it hardly seems like a genuine attempt to learn anything and any assertions you make about voting behaviour has to be suspect at best, not to mention that it’s based on a single example, hardly ever the hallmark of solid statistical analysis.

Let’s move on to the attempted “fix”.

You’re attempting to achieve what exactly?

A relationship between votes and comments?

How do you know how the users decide what to read, vote or comment on? You see a relationship with ordering by votes, I read whatever comes past on my “All feed” and vote when I think the pod warrants it. The two are not the same.

In other words, your proposal seems based on a very poor foundation and I’m voting accordingly.

The open-source alternative to Mailchimp, Brevo, Mailjet, Listmonk, Mailerlite, and Klaviyo, Loop.so, etc.

That’s the first paragraph of the project page.

Not to rain on the parade, but in my experience, having had to email customers in bulk … sending tickets and logistics requirements for large events … I can tell you that self hosting this is a complete and utter waste of time.

You’ll get blocked before the first batch of emails leave your mailer.

Not even paid MailChimp or Campaign Monitor could guarantee delivery.

The problem is not the platform for sending email, it’s the centralised nature of email hosting, much of it is behind Google and Microsoft hosted services.

Excellent idea … one question … what are you going to do while these people are still alive in order to actually … be able to celebrate the dedication … with your sanity in tact … so you know that it’s actually worth celebrating?

I’ve run my business for over 25 years, and I haven’t had a printer in over two decades. I have needed to print something less than half a dozen times since making the decision to not replace it. Instead I print to PDF and if I need actual physical paper, I’ve put a PDF on a USB flash drive and taken it to my local office supplies store to print on demand.

I have a scanner, it’s been used perhaps a dozen times in the same period.

In other words, have you considered not buying a printer?

You don’t need the wildcard, and as others have pointed out, it doesn’t include "hidden " dot files by default.

tar -czf ~/package.tgz admin api mobile

Catch up on sleep.

You can even archive extended attributes with the ‘--xattrs flag.