A modern printer like that should support driverless printing (so mobiles can print to it) which modern Linuxes also support. For it to work your computer needs to be able to scan the network using dns or mdns, part of the avahi package, and to have CUPS installed and have the cups-browsed service (part of cups, which makes use of dns/mdns) running.

https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup/html/book-startup/cha-print.html#sec-print-net

From the above at section 7.7.1 you do need to make a hole in your local firewall for this unfortunately. It might be possible to turn off the firewall completely for testing purposes then, if CUPS detects the printer, you might be encocuraged to do the firewall fiddling?

I found setting up my recently purchased Canon printer very easy via the CUPS web interface, but I am not running opensuse, or anything like it (Gentoo wierdo here) so can’t help with details.

Barbarella. Which introduced us to Duran Duran.

“The problem with sorting out housing is it’s going to make a lot of people who’ve had all their eggs in one basket a lot less well off.”

Exactly. We have had decades of tory *and labour* policies which encourage wealth inequality. It needs unwinding, but to try to do so quickly would most likely backfire. The middle class are going to have to take some of the hit, but it is important that the super rich become less so as it is their spare £€$ which are distorting asset values. A dysfunctional housing market is a symptom. Try to treat it by all means, but the cause must be attacked as well.

Fwiw I support a Piketty style wealth tax.

“Anyone who can come up with a proper solution to the housing crisis (which probably also means some medium density housing between flats and ‘executive detached homes’) will be in power forever.”

Gotta fix wealth inequality first, and that is not going to happen overnight, or even over the course of one parliament.

But tropicana isn’t an original anything?

“He’s positive about the future, hoping to be discharged home early next week, and then a prosthetic within a few weeks. He’s told the medical staff to hop to it.”

I expect they are concerned that if they give him a foot he will take a mile.

If the copying is fair for the purposes of research or private study, or for the purposes of criticism or review, no permission is needed but an attribution is. Criticism or review is the most likely, but some parts of a thesis may just be for the purpose of exposition of stuff already known.

Easiest thing to do is gently put tho boot into the research underlying the thing they want to copy, alternatively praise it in some way. Or both. Criticism and review innit.

More seriously, take a self critical view of why the thing is being copied. Is it just to save the faff of diy or necessary to make a pount?

Yes **** it. Not literally, that might be painful. Love to Rob and his nearest and dearest.

Calling “garden leave” “gardening leave”. You can sit in it, you don’t have to dig it.

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And apostrophes”

Yup. All of the little ****. Burn them.

‘Even JHJ gets it. The Cop just has to say to him “I suspect that you have inflammatory intent, if you don’t follow my instruction, I’m going to arrest you”’

And what would the policeman’s grounds for believing there was inflammatory intent be?

Buy him a bike. Specialized have a suitable model.

He should take up cycling.

In the UK it is OK to take public interest aspects into account when sentencing, the guidelines have wriggle room for that.

It is not just about procedure, there comes a stage in any procedure when a judgment based on numerous factors has to be made.

To enlarge upon my mixed review above, having read the comments so far and had a bit of a think:

The film is clearly not a political intrigue drama, nor is it an action adventure where the shooty bits are what it is about. To the extend it it about anything, it appears to me to be about the moral/ethical issues facing journalists caught in the middle of a morally difficult conflict. By treading very lightly over the politics, it makes journalism appear a politics free zone, which it is clearly not. (But US journalists tend to have a rather pie in the sky high view of journalistic ethics that is at odds with reality – remember that guy Glenn Greenwald* who got caught up with the UK courts over disclosing sources in the Snowden affair and argued that journalists should not be subject to the rules that affect normal people, much to the bemusement of the judge.) This left a kind of vacuum at the centre of the film, and led to the main characters apparently not giving a fig about the politics of their own country. I am not sure journalists were intended to be portrayed as cynical in quite that way. I have seen other films that are about political upheavel that manage to create authentic characters and raise difficult general issues without detailing the politics, for example Transit.

As to the shooty fighty stuff (I don’t go to see shooty fighty films, though I see some on TV), this was dealt with as if it was a shooty fighty film and that treatment turned me off a bit. Other films have managed better, for example Apocalypse Now manages not to be a war film exacctly despite there being a lot of war in it.

So what you are left with is a rather shallow treatment of the issues of journalistic morals in a time of conflict, with an OK “road trip through a dystopian view of the future” middle and a well done shooty bit at the end.

*A very good journalist whose work I admire

ETA

“No explanation for the cause of the civil war. ”

There is a reference to the president’s third term…

The film doesn’t focus on the politics, but encourages you to paint that picture.

We saw it last week. Thought it was good, but somehow not entirely satisfying. I think I wasn’t really convinced by the depiction of life in a civil war, it all seemed too… nice. Despite all the shooting.

@HughStew – if you love footnotes you must read “The Third Policeman” by Flann O’Brien. Well, actually you should all read it. It involves bicycles.

“I used to spend quite a bit of time on MTB-Wales.co.uk (I guessed the URL as it was spammed to death a few years ago) and did a few events with teams that were put together informally, so maybe some of those guys are on STW forums.”

Well in that case we may well have met (I was Timothy on mtb-w, I think it was mtbwales.com) – there are quite a few others I think. Very sorry to hear of your health issues – there appear to be quite a few of us who share their’s on here, not that I go on about the effects of my prostate cancer drugs that much. But it is useful to be able to say what you want, rather than facing that question of “at what point (if ever) will it become appropriate to unload my issues on this nice person I am talking to”.

“The Scotch and Welsh usage of “country” to mean something different is highly (cough) aspirational,”

This is a circular argument no? If they are using it to mean something different, then no aspiration is needed. As with all meaning, it depends on context, you could pick another word, say “nation”, but I really don’t see how that would help. There are those in FIFA and UEFA who think the home nations should not compete separately, but for football purposes they are separate [insert label of choice here]. I think it all stems from the idea (a bit of a fiction really) that the UK is a union of nations, so just like the UK could leave the EU, so the nations can leave the UK. Cameron accepted this when he offered Scotland an independence referendum which did not require any consent from the rest of the UK. That is a constitutional fact, not an aspiration. By contrast, according to the Spanish government, Catalonia can only leave with the consent of the whole of Spain. Although on the ground, the Spanish regions, US states, the German Lande etc. have more autonomy in some respects than the UK devolved administrations.

“Greenland is not a country.”

Grenland is not a sovereign state would be a better way of looking at it – see Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Sorry to hesr things are a bit rough for you atm wookie. But I see some positives in what you say, there is still life out there for you to enjoy and you are doing so. Well done!

“Turns out the claims of high toxic it can be are some what exaggerated.”

Well not really, that link tells us about when rice becomes toxic not how toxic it becomes. If you do not follow that advice (and are unlucky and your rice had the spores in it) then it can make you very ill – hospital ill. But it won’t kill you.

“A Fish Called Rhonda”

Nice. There used to be on or two “Rhondda’s Plaice”, but I am not sure they still exist.

If you are called Rhonda and live in the Rhondda you have to open a chippy. What name would you choose?

“So after days of Sunak and Co defending Willy Wragg and insisting he’s done nothing wrong, because sending random strangers photos of your nads and the phone numbers of MPs is apparently perfectly normal, the inevitable…”

I missed the defending him part, got a link or reference?

Dogs are the new children. Discuss.

“Apparently there is a percentage of people who, when getting dressed of a morning, will put on one sock and one shoe then repeat for the other side.”

This is the way to go when dressing a baby or infant. Once you have got hold of a limb, dress it in everything, then move on to the next.

“Superstitions…got lots that I’ve inherited from parents/grandparents”

As Larkin said “…they leave you with the faults they had, and add some extra, just for you.”

Recently finished IQ84 by Haruku Murakami. Not my favourite Murakami, but worth reading (my favourite is Kafka on the Shore).

Now on Maiden Castle by John Cowper Powys. Very Victorian, but once you get over that, good stuff.

I would buy a bike branded “mild amateur”. But I am probably in a small minority.

Re currency, there is a local rate and an official rate. Local rates were 250 – 280 Pesos/dollar (or was it Euros – both are welcome), official rate about half that. Government hotels and the larger chain ones do not offer exchange at all, don’t accept foreign currency and some insist on payment by credit card (which will give you the government rate). If you stay at guest houses they normally offer to change money at the local rate, that is where we changed our money. Restaurants often accept both Pesos and dollars, but check the prices to see what rate they are applying. Probably best value is to change money at local rate and pay in Pesos.

ETA thay gave up on the two currency model, now there is just one Peso, but two rates as above.

I bet you all love ‘movement snacks’ don’t you?

Best not to think about movement snacks too hard

Road bikes? Hmmmmm.

We were there a few weeks ago, there was a surprising number of USAians. Not vast numbers, but noticeable, Germans appeared to ne well represented. The Canadians mainly go straight to the beach and stay thete (according to our guide, confirmed by ouy day at a beach hotel).

If you like diving/ snorkelling the Bay of Pigs area looked great, but we were only passing through to visit the museum there- which is great.

Endorse everything said above, beautiful place and lovely people. The food was OK really, but would have been v dull for a veggie. The trek to visit Fidel’s mountain guerilla hideout is fun, worth taking your walking poles for if you use them.

“Many moons ago I was in a sandwich shop when a bloke walked in and asked for “ham, jam, onion and mustard”. It was made up for him without even a slightly raised eyebrow. I have yet to try this delicacy.”

My mum used to have a stock response to “what’s for dinner”: ham, lamb, liver and jam and toura loura lay. No idea where it came from.

These at home charging tariff things. Do they need a functioning smart meter? Because our’s has never been smart due to poor signal.

And the ships crew unaccounted for, pretty gruesome to consider what might have happened to them also.

From the pics there are no man made islands around the piers to protect them. They must go straight in to deep water for the ship not to groumd first – this would be a risk factor folks would have been awsre of?

It is not clear how long after the collision it collapsed. Visibility looks fine at the time of the collapse.