As near as I can tell the HP PSC 1315 was released in 2004, over two decades ago. I can see how it’s aggravating for you but there can’t a double handful of those clunkers still working anywhere in the world. There’s no way it could be worth it to HP to rewrite drivers for the 10 or so people still using them.

Switch to Linux. :)

the US doesn’t have the amount of engineers it needs to move production to the US

Tim Cook can eat a bag of rancid donkey dicks. The reason we ‘don’t have enough engineers’, a point which I would emphatically argue, is because CEOs like Tim and companies like Apple vehemently refused to invest in domestic capabilities as they rushed to save money via Chinese outsourcing.

If we want “Tooling” Engineers, or any other specialty such as “Process Control”, the answer is as always to pay them what they are worth and that’s the rub; Timmie and his buddies don’t want to pay the high salaries for these skills.

…it’s simply impossible.

It’s no more impossible than having enough world class software engineers. The United States in general, and Silicon Valley in particular, used to be the world leader in developing and attracting Engineering talent and the only reason we aren’t anymore is because companies don’t want to pay for it.

Perhaps but the next Windows 11 update is NOT going to “break your printer”. If you already have a printer setup it will keep working even if its driver is an old V3 / V4.

Most of the old drivers are not distributed by vendors since we are talking about the era when CDs were included in the box.

I dunno about that. I just looked up an HP LaserJet P1015. It was a very inexpensive laser printer released back in 2003, over two decades ago, and it has drivers available for download from HP both Windows and Linux. The P2035 was released in '08 and it has available drivers to download.

Granted that is only two printer models from a singly company but I think you may be overstating the impact of this.

A lot of older printers may also support “Universal” PCL 5 or 6 Drivers from HP / Cannon / Epson etc.

The posted article is NOT accurate, here’s a clarification - https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/scared-your-printer-will-stop-working-with-windows-11-dont-be-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-microsofts-support-plans

I am doubtful that starlink had any measurable impact.

You can doubt all you like but there’s a lot of documented cases of Russia using SL on their drones and in their command bunkers, too many to be easily denied.

Are they telling us that superpower Russia…

Russia isn’t a superpower. In all ways but their nuclear arsenal they are at best a regional power.

As if Russia didn’t have it’s won satelites, cell towers they could build, which are line of sight, and other methods like sending signals over power lines.

Russia has very few satellites and perhaps only a handful of modern ones. They could build cell towers…and then Ukraine will blow them the fuck up, jam them, or listen to their comms. Signals over power lines? What power lines?

I don’t believe that Russia is dependent on Elon Musk’s shitty satelite internet, which by all accounts is worlds worse than fiber optics.

Again, what you believe may not match reality.

I have no experience with their devices specifically, but is turning equipment back on a common feature for a UPS?

It’s common with the APC / Eaton / CyberPower UPS units that I’m familiar with. Typically you’re able to configure how a UPS behaves when utility power is lost and when it’s restored, something like:

1. Line Power Lost - Notify Controller or controlled nodes
2. Battery power is at x% - You can configure the value for x and when it’s reached it notifies the controller or controlled nodes to begin shutdown.
3. Battery power is at x% - You can configure the value for x and when it’s reached it notifies the controller or controlled nodes to hurry their shutdown.
4. Battery power exhausted and unit shuts down.
5. Line / Utility power restored - You configure whether the UPS powers back up immediately or waits until the batteries reach a configure state of charge.
6. Configured behavior happens, the UPS powers back up and applies power to the outlets.

It’s 5/6 that I’m really trying to pin down as I’m unclear how it could work any other way. Presumably once the UPS exhausts its batteries the outlets lose power then when power is restored the UniFi devices connected to it should naturally power back on. However it’s possible that the UPS doesn’t automatically power back on, meaning you have to physically poke the power button, which really limits where and how they can be used.

We really don’t need to drag American politics into every single post.

It’s theater, he’s not serious.

This has been predicted and worked towards since the 90s.

Lithuanian torte.

Interesting given that they recently mandated that new equipment utilize post quantum resistant encryption.

You can also install ad guard home as an add on INSIDE Home Assistant. Works great!

Am also in Wyoming and can confirm.

Combo of ADHD and living through the 2000s with Internet Explorer where ads often installed malware and viruses. If you DIDN’T use an Ad Blocker you were playing a game of Russian Roulette every time you opened a web page.

Popups, pop unders, blaring audio, malware, slow page loads…ads are a scourge.

Yeah my comment is 4 months late but I just found this community.

The screenshot shows you have your U7 Pro setup as an “extender” which means that it’s using wireless meshing to connect to your other AP. For reference it’s normal to set Min RSSI and / or “Roaming Assistant” to between -70 and -75 which will trigger wireless supplicants to move to a different AP if they can.

So with your 2nd U7 Pro meshing at relatively low strength of -76 what the message “AP Deployment Density Might Need Improvement” means is “Hey, my mesh link to the downstairs AP is pretty weak. You should add another AP in between so I have better signal or wire me up with an Ethernet cable.”

Fix that and the “100 Mbps transfer” you are seeing will likely jump to 500+.

Funny, I’ve been calling Flock the same thing.

Good!

I dunno if it’s exciting but I do have and use an Entra joined and InTune managed Linux Mint laptop with a full security stack loaded as described above. It works.

Yep but…

Here’s Microsoft - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/devices/sso-linux?tabs=debian-install%2Cdebian-update%2Cdebian-uninstall

Google has a variety of IDM methods including Ubuntu Authd and Secure Cloud LDAP. There’s also 3rd party tools like JumpCloud, ScaleOrange, etc.

Okta appears to have ASA and OPA although I’m not familiar with either of them. Ping has PingID and Ping Federate, although again I haven’t used either of them.

So depending on your cloud and needs the IdM / IAM is either available NOW or it will be very soon. 😀

The corporate crowd will stay on Windows because they benefit from propping up other corporations.

I wouldn’t be so sure. An interesting indicator of the shift that many of you wouldn’t see is how many vendors of management and security software have put out Linux versions in the past 12 months. I’m talking about stuff like RMM (Remote Monitoring & Management), EDR / MDR (Endpoint Detection & Response / Managed Detection & Response) client side DNS filtering software, and other things.

This tooling is for managing and securing endpoints used by companies, either by internal IT or by MSPs. These vendors wouldn’t be making and releasing these tools unless they were being asked for them AND there was going to be stead long term demand.

Turns out that once a companies stuff is in the cloud its users really don’t need MS Windows anymore so as long as you can centrally manage and secure it Linux makes a perfectly fine endpoint OS.