Synaptic is the graphical package manager. Is there another?

This behaviour has been reported for some years across all distros and seems to be a bug in cups-browsed. I found that every few print jobs it would would come up with the "No destination host name .." message. cups-browsed is a daemon that automatically finds printers on a network and seems to need to do this each time you print (instead of remembering anything). It fails to do so if it (or Cups itself) considers that the printer is "Paused", even though there is no reason for it to be. I found that unpausing the printer in the Cups control panel does not solve it - it goes back to "Paused" when I try again to print.

Maybe you can uninstall cups-browsed if your printer is directly attached to your PC, which is perhaps why some people have solved it by simply uninstalling it, but that didn't work for me on a network. Some have said you can uninstall cups-browsed as long as you arrange Cups to use the printer's fixed network address, by editing the Cups config files, but I've never tried that.

What works for me is restarting cups-browsed  :

systemctl restart cups-browsed

Common knowledge.  It is not easy to find hard data or criteria, but security is its main focus. I have a connection with a well-known IT security consultancy (not going to name it), and they use it for their servers for that reason. Not recommended for general usage however, FreeBSD is preferable for that if you are going for Unix.

@rolfie : forums.debian.net takes me to the same anti-bot screen and nothing more happens. Maybe because I'm using an ancient Windows 7 laptop FTTB.

I always assumed that not being able to use a GUI as root was to discourage beginners from using it as normal way of working, and that if you could not do what you needed to do as root on the command line, you should not be doing it anyway. I log in as root when I need to (I rarely use sudo) and it is only ever for things like editing fstab with nano.

I have a different colour scheme in my root CLI session from my normal user session, in addition to the change of prompt character, so I am clearly reminded of where I am.

Thanks for the responses.  So it may or may not require IMEI (which I had not heard of) that only a phone can give (without some serious hacking) depending on what the server is set up to require.  I shall give it a try, but I had not expected that hurdle when I put the question. My first concern though is to choose an Android emulator (to run in VirtualBox) . It seems like Android x86 could be a good choice, Distrowatch counts it as a distro.

I had this same problem when I went from Chimera to Daedalus, but with Suspend rather than Hibernate. I don't know what the latter kernel version was but it would have been recent. For reasons, I then installed PeppermintOS (2023 version - the latest) which is (optionally) a Devuan derivative, with xfce,  and Suspend works fine on it from the desktop icon. I have never tried Hibernate.

Your post prompted me to check my kernel version and it is also 6.1.0-37-amd64, so it is a mystery.

I have used a Logitech Trackman Wheel for years. They stopped making them long ago and I hate to think of not being able to use one any more, so I have snapped up some used ones from Ebay and have about 8 of them (but I do have 4 PCs). Even used ones are not cheap to buy.  I have had microswitches fail so I cannibalise others for spare ones - I can solder. On the later version you can push the ball out from a hole below with the blunt end of a pencil to clean behind it.

I prefer the wired ones because of less to go wrong, and I can't see the point of a wireless trackball unless you are using it from the other side of the room, because unlike a mouse where the wire drags, you don't move a trackball around in use.  I can use a trackball in the narrow space between my keyboard and the edge of my desk, and you can spin the ball indefinitely, while a mouse would have run out of space without lifting and replacing. I have used a trackball for so long that I can send the cursor to anywhere on the screen with a flick of my thumb with an accuracy of about 1/4", obviously followed by the final adjustment.

The Logitech Trackman Wheel is right-handed though, I've never seen a left-hand version.

Peppermint OS
Devuan based option.
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distr … peppermint

As I was unable to get system suspend to work with Daedalus (either with kde or xfce) despite several re-installations and it having worked under Chimaera I looked around and found that Peppermint is a distro which is based on either Debian or Devuan - your choice at installation. This seems a relatively recent development of Peppermint which was originally based on Ubuntu. This is called the 2023-07-01 version, which is obvioulsy its date.

It was a fairly smooth installation with a minimal set of packages, not even a browser, which suits me so I can choose things myself, but not beginner friendly.  On the first try it stuffed everything except swap into a single partition despite my defining separate root and home, but I wiped and re-installed and realised I'd missed a step the first time, one that was easy to miss. 

It was also a bit annoying that it does not allow you to set up a root account during installation, expecting you to do the "sudo says" nonsense. I set it up post installation.  I have never understood the point of the sudo method as it has little security and is a real nuisance if you need a long admin session, like I have been setting up my 15 disk partitions and other stuff. I suppose it is to remind you that you are doing something at admin level, but my root has a red bash prompt for that.