Heroes Orchestra - Grass theme from HoMM II

They may eventually get to the terminal and the WMs as well, should they decide it gives people too much freedom to operate outside of their paradigm.

I don't think that even Windows and MacOS are end-user-oriented anymore. The days when they tried to please the average Joe or Jane are now gone. Gone are the eyecandies like the bubbly Aqua, the Aero transparency, the Bliss wallpapers and the like. Nowadays it's the wonderful choice between concentrated Bleach or Charcoal for your eyes, coupled with the most depressing and confusing GUIs ever possible on the market that no one could have imagined in their worst nightmares just a couple decades ago. Or the endless updates that cause your devices to malfunction or lock you out of your computer. Or outright destroy your data. Windows is no longer trying to hide the fact that it's been designed as a data collection and advertizing platform all along. MacOS maybe less so, due to the somewhat more niche audience, but the story is pretty much the same either way...

I don't believe it's all just about money. Of course the lack of material compensation and appreciation of another's work plays a role, but I feel that something much more important was forgotten. The whole idea of sharing and mutual support seems to have practically evaporated from the spirit of Linux community (and many other communities as well). Back in the day people seemed to have a much clearer grasp that corporatocracy etc. was a rotten game all along, and were willing to put their efforts and resources in a completely different direction, were willing to help and share with each other unconditionally, finding more and more kindred souls along the way and knowing their work will not be in vain, which allowed things to prosper. And in the golden age (the 2000s?) things were going along quite nicely. And it was not about any political ideology either, as we see quite well nowadays that all of them turn out to be one and the same, none of the -isms were meant for anything good. (Even Open Source was not fully about it, as today we see it everywhere but it doesn't really solve anything.) Perhaps back then people simply knew how to avoid that, and how to work best in each other's interests rather than trying to adjust themselves to something that's only going to bring more ruin and suffering. Today it's easy to acknowledge that we are on the wrong path, but we have lost the sight of the right path altogether...

There's Haiku, which seems to be heading in the right direction so far and one day may become usable (as a light multimedia type of OS, at least). Unless it also falls prey to the omnipresent corruption, which seems to be the trend lately in pretty much everything. Greed, powermongering and malevolence have poisoned many souls...

Ink Spots - The Java Jive

Psilocybin version

Everything went well with the upgrade. Thank you for your hard work, Devuan Team!

The Essence - Mirage

I have a 64G TeamGroup drive that I use regularly, when I looked at it in Gparted I also saw a chunk of unallocated space at the beginning. It was quite small, but still noticeable, maybe about 20MB. I reformatted it to use all the space available, did not suffer any data loss so far but of course with such oddities going on it's best to keep backups everywhere you can... It's also supposed to be USB 3.0 but is very slow on writes. Flash memory is getting very sketchy, a lot of people complain, especially when it comes to bigger capacity drives/cards.

Got another 64G drive by Kingston (bought together with the first one), that one came preformatted as FAT32 instead of ExFAT for some reason... Strange.

Here is another good page on the subject of fake flash drives: https://rmprepusb.com/tutorials/007-all … sh-drives/ .

I was using KeePassX and KeePass2 before, did not care for XC at all but now I found a very nice alternative called QtPass.

It uses GPG for encryption and doesn't have bells & whistles like autotype, attachments etc. - just a password generator, hierarchical storage and customizable extra fields. May be worth checking out if you're looking for this kind of simplicity.

I've just tried the solution proposed in post #6, installed the missing 32-bit packages and configured the printer via CAPT Printer option. Same story with the empty print jobs being sent, only this time it returns Idle - ccp send_data error, exit. According to various related threads, mostly on Linux Mint forums, for whatever reason the ccpd daemon has trouble starting up and working correctly without additional configuration via special scripts. Making it start together with the system seemed to help some people, as did querying the status via lpstat command (this didn't work for me).

I will be on the lookout for those HP and Brother printers from now on, looks like for compatibility with Linux these brands are the best choice after all.

Thank you for the swift replies and recommendations.

So far I have tried removing the factory drivers, reinstalling cups and installing the libcupsimage2 package that was suggested in one of the links. Unfortunately in my case this resulted in no change whatsoever, the print jobs still go into nothingness (I tried both with and without the official driver). Interestingly, the print queue window and the CUPS error log both say that 0 bytes were sent to the printer (for any job). Could this be the clue as to what's going on?

I've also installed openprinting-ppds, that gave me more options for the drivers, there are several LBP models listed but not the 6020 - the Printer Settings tool suggested LBP6670... still the same result. Installing foomatic-db expanded the list even further, but my printer's model isn't there either. Configuring it as a generic text-only printer also doesn't work.