I have a Canon Maxify 2750.

Up until now I've been using the standar linux drivers for it but they have a serious limitation I really need to solve which is I can only print one page at a time, on one sheet of paper. Printer is capable of full duplex printing.

If been able to install the drivers before but now I'me being confronted with an unexpected _"("_ error. Nothing more, nothing less.

I run the install script and it just fails.

Can someone lend a hand on this, please?

What tools and/or resources can I use to start such a project?

I've been putting some research into it but besides getting conflicting views, I always get the feeling the advices being offered feel exaggerated for what I have in mind.

My intention is to solely publish text.

I was thinking on getting a RPi, perhaps an older model, to use it as host. My idea is to have the public facing machine completely isolated from my daily use computer and network, so that in the event the site gets attacked I can simply re-upload everything and be done.

For the website creation itself I've been thinking about using Hugo to start but in the background learn some HTML and build a simple site by myself to replace the original.

What am I not considering or misjudging here?

Are there any other tools I should be looking into?

Any thoughts on this are welcome and apreciated.

It's a generic question and the first answer it merits is "It depends." but let me explain myself a bit more.

I'm looking at changing my phone in two or three months and the current phone I have was a bit of a let down. It's a BlackView and I bought it being rugged but the phone comes with a few quirks I can't get rid of.

On Lemmy, Nothing Phone is randomly mentioned. Some talk down on it, others praise it.

I've set a budget for how much I'm willing to spend on my next phone but the store I usually go to has added the brand to their catalogue and one of the models, although a bit more than what I want to spend is something I could consider.

The model in question is the Nothing CMF Phone 1, 8GB RAM, 128 GB storage, 5G network ready.

But how different and better from the average brand is Nothing Phone? What sets them apart?

My computer recently developed an error where the hardware clock displays the time as follows

System date [Mon 31/63/25755]
System time [63:28:25]

The clock runs.

I've tried all the usual tactics: remove CMOS battery, short the pins to force a reset, put fresh battery, reflash BIOS. Nothing.

On boot, I get an error on reading the hardware clock and the system defaults to 3 of September, 2025.

I think I'm looking at a mobo heading to the e-waste bin.

The board in question is a GygaByte AB350M-DASH. It still runs but it's a bit annoying having to set the system clock every single time I boot up the machine.

Any advice on the matter is welcome.

As I write this, I have my desktop with a BIOS error that has sent computer into the future, as the system time is 31/25/25455.

I don't think the future is that fun. The year has 25 months.

I'm looking at BIOS update. Nothing serious. Already changed the CMOS. Only need to fetch the BIOS from the manufacturer website and flash it.

But I didn't - and I still don't - feel like it and instead turned off the machine and walked way and went to join my family, pet the dogs and take care of dinner.

It felt... good.

And if I'm writing this now, here, is because I wanted to brag a bit.

I keep reading and listening to doomerism about people not being able to turn off from the screens. But it is this simple.

You just walk away.

Selling wintering tree.

Top portion fell due to cold weather but will regrow in Spring.

Pick up, only. No deliveries.

While trying to move my computer to Debian, after allowing the installer to do it's task, my machine will not boot.

Instead, I get a long string of text, as follows:

Could not retrieve perf counters (-19)
ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x00000000000000B00-0x0000000000000B08 conflicts withOpRegion 0x0000000000000B00-0x0000000000000B0F (\GSA1.SMBI) /20250404/utaddress-204)
usb: port power management may beunreliable
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
amdgpu 0000:08:00.0 amdgpu: [drm] Failed to setup vendor infoframe on connector HDMI-A-1: -22

And the system eventually collapses into a shell, that I do not know how to use. It returns:

Gave up waiting for root file system device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
 - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait lomg enough?)
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)

Alert! /dev/sdb2 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

The system has two disks mounted:

-- an SSD, with the EFI, root, var, tmp and swap partition, for speeding up the overall system -- an hdd, for /home

I had the system running on Mint until recently, so I know the system is sound, unless the SSD stopped working but then it is reasonable to expect it would no accept partitioning. Under Debian, it booted once and then stopped booting all together.

The installation I made was from a daily image, as I am/was aiming to put my machine on the testing branch, in order to have some sort of a rolling distro.

If anyone can offer some advice, it would be very much appreciated.

I apologize if this isn't the correct place to ask this. If not, just point me to the right place, please.

As per the title, I am looking into backing up files - pictures, movies, music, some documents - locally but with little to mo need of having the backup medium hot. I already have a few HDDs lying around but it reaches a point where is becomes bulky and takes up considerable space.

I've been thinking of memory cards because they are reasonably affordable and can be stored away easily. But how reliable are those?

I intend to make/save several backup copies.

Okay, I'll admit, the post title came out a little more on the clickbait side than I would like bu it was either that or a wall of text for a question.

Now, to the issue that brings me here.

I've recently bought a car and had a service/maintenance done on it, just to know what could be hiding in waiting to trouble me.

I usually buy all parts necessary and hand those to the shop and this time was no exception. The novelty was that for the first time ever, the mechanic told me I should be buying a specific brand of engine oil for the car in question.

The car I bought is an Opel Astra, with a GM diesel engine, turbo assisted. The engine takes 10W40 and I usually buy ELF oils for my cars. This mechanic told me ELF is best suited for Renault engines, while Opel (and all german made engines at large) uses Castrol.

On paper, both manufacturers make their engine oils to the same industry specs, so why this splitting of hairs?

A few days ago I tried to add a contact to Signal. The other person is already a user as none of us can find the other on the network.

On my side, I get a message that the number is still not on Signal, while on the other side the network returns an "unknown error" message when searching for my contact.

What may be causing issues, although it makes no sense for me:

• I'm an Android user, while the other phone is an iPhone
• we're from different countries, including different continents, with an ocean apart

Another person, on that same country, has already added my number to their Signal on an Android phone, as well as another number from my country.

This makes no sense whatsoever to me.

Any thoughts?

It was circa 1998 that I watched a Playboy tv show where it was listed a series of songs with more or less suggestive or provocative videoclips.

To this day I can still remember three tunes, which were:

• "Catholic School Girls Rule", by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers (videoclip currently deemed as restricted on YouTube)
• "Loosey's Rap", by Rick James
• "Girls, Girls, Girls", by Motley Crue

Another I risk was on the list but can not be sure is:

• "Addicted to Love", by Robert Palmer

But it was an one hour show, so it was bound to have more tunes on it, even with the very nice host taking a few minutes of screen time.

Any help adding to the list?

I'm betting the root of this problem is on how I originally installed the system but I would like another opinion. Or several.

Running Mint.

After analyzing the disk usage, the folder where Thunderbird is installed is completely full. I have four separate accounts in it but a single one is responsible for taking all the space available, through the imap/sent folder, which makes no sense for me, as I send relatively few messages compared with all the messages I receive.

I already considered just purging the program from my system and completely reinstall it but if I'm going to do that I'm better off doing a fresh system installation.

The system has two disks: a SSD running the system core and a HDD for the home partition. I opted to keep the system core on the SSD to speed up booting (and it worked) and used the HDD for storage because. I prefer HDDs for user files, for longevity reasons. The biggest mistake I made here was not using LVM on the disks.

Any thoughts and criticism on this is welcome.

Thank you in advance.