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1. EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 04:23:46 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

   man, i had forgotten the absolute bullshit that is configuring printers in windows, specially on modern windows machines, i’m even more sure now that the way to go is just get an rasp pi, set that up as a printing server and never have to deal with winblows drivers bullshit ever again.

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 04:23:46 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @EdBoatConnoisseur The thing that surprises me trying windows is how inundated you are with shitty media. They have intrusions in every menu and window about “CURRENT EVENTS” blaring in your face

   • EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 08:19:04 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     @Whitewall_Blasphemy @WashedOutGundamPilot Thinking of getting a pi zero but the prices are stupid where i live, $80 usd.

     For $100 i could probably grab a second hand laptop with better specs than the pi and use that as my printing server.

     Also fun enough you can add email printing, if u don’t care just setup a google email account for printing only, configure a local email agent on the server, add a cronjob to pull email every 5 or so minutes and add a filter so that only emails with the title “print” get printed.

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   • Whitewall_Blasphemy (whitewall_blasphemy@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 08:19:05 JST Whitewall_Blasphemy

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @EdBoatConnoisseur I had to resort to [open shell] to block that shit when using win 10. I'll prolly eventually find a way to neuter windows of that behavior totally... hopefully.
   • EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 08:19:05 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     @Whitewall_Blasphemy @WashedOutGundamPilot a nice way to work around that crap is to deploy a pi-hole to redirect all trafic to and from the microshaft menu crap into localhost

   • Whitewall_Blasphemy (whitewall_blasphemy@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 11:37:45 JST Whitewall_Blasphemy

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     @EdBoatConnoisseur @halberd @WashedOutGundamPilot I guess I'd just use a dedicated PC or a Pie4 I never use anymore [still have one from a arcade cabinet] I later upgraded with a Lenovo edge2 1580 LCD/touchscreen and motherboard that had a "hinge and bezel malfunction". That's a whole can of beans I ain't getting into, suffice to say I had to use gentle massaging to get a glued on touch screen from a clam bezel. The walking away from windows thing might be easier to do if M$ wasn't literally patching out all the ways to live without them. Heck at the bios level they got all sorts of shit laying in wait, might even be easier to just patch PC in use's bios and THEN use a directly Ethernet tethered thin client with some decent power to do heavy traffic and perhaps file system stuff for home server applications, etc. Either way it still looks like having some sort of external Mook to run as a firewall is better than windows calling home EVER.
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   • Whitewall_Blasphemy (whitewall_blasphemy@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 11:37:46 JST Whitewall_Blasphemy

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     @halberd @EdBoatConnoisseur @WashedOutGundamPilot I understand as much, I'd just root a router you can find in a boot sale or a Goodwill and use it as a redirect either way. A Raspi to me is over powered in general, even the little picos or whatever they are called
   • EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 11:37:46 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     @Whitewall_Blasphemy @halberd @WashedOutGundamPilot Welp, i kinda want the extra processor muscle of the pi to run more than just the printer server, i’m thinking of a pi hole and a NAS, then i will cobble something that can transcode 1080p video and set that as a jellyfin server mounting the NAS as storage, or perhaps move the NAS over the other machine, i have not decided yet but more or less that is what i wanna do

   • halberd (halberd@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 11:37:48 JST halberd

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     @EdBoatConnoisseur @Whitewall_Blasphemy @WashedOutGundamPilot Pis are far over-priced based on brand recognition. It used to be that you could get an early-age IoT *plug thingy for $30 or so, root it into a full computer, and get all the advantages of an rPi without having to deal with their fanbase.
     
     All those companies have probably stopped making hardware and shifted to SaaS, though, if they haven't gone out of business entirely.