Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On 2026-07-31 07:11, c186282 wrote:
> On 7/31/26 00:53, rbowman wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:47:00 +0000, vallor wrote:
>>
>>> BTW: Whenever someone posts their reminiscences of all the trouble they
>>> had with printing on Linux, I point out that nowadays,
>>> Linux printing is as easy as on MacOS -- thanks to CUPS.
>>
>> I'll admit I was amazed when I plugged an old Samsung CLP-375 in and it
>> just worked. I have a fraught relationship with printers that goes 
>> back to
>> the '80s.
> 
>    Linix printing HAS improved, considerably, over
>    the past five years or so. NOW it usually "Just
>    Works". Yay !
> 
>    Still couldn't get LibreOffice Writer to properly
>    print a damned envelope though ... "good enough
>    for the USPS" by abusing margins, but not ideal.
> 
>> I'm amused by my dentist. She has two printers and trying to get either
>> one to print a receipt is an adventure. I've told her the receipt
>> ultimately goes in the trash and I don't need it for anything but she
>> insists. She has mastered the technique of 'if it doesn't work, hit it
>> harder'.
> 
>    Heh ... I made the "mistake" of mentioning to
>    someone in my dental office about how it was
>    going with their Great New Biz System. The
>    response was something like SHOCK.
> 
>    Some glib salesman had sold them on their Great
>    New Better System - but NOBODY could get it to
>    work worth a damn. Disaster !
> 
>    However their IT guy IS happy ... he got paid
>    to xfer their files over to the new system, and
>    now AGAIN going back to the OLD system that
>    actually worked  :-)
> 
>    Oh, the Great New System is called "Dolphin".
>    Now they have a dart-board with a dolphin
>    pic on it. Really.  :-)
> 

I don't know what my dentist uses. I know they changed software, and 
they have some computer with the old system in order to see the old 
data. But on their new terminal they have a 3D representation of my 
mouth, they can see in isolation a single molar, in 3D.

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.
        ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;