morph3ous

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Lines through printed pages in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] morph3ous@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. I gave him this suggestion and the one from others about using the manufacturer’s proprietary drivers.

Lines through printed pages in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] morph3ous@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Thanks. I’ll let him know. I think he has either a Canon or Lexmark.

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Lines through printed pages (lemmy.world)
 

My elderly neighbor who is an accomplished engineer and has been using Linux for ages recently upgraded his distro. I think he is using Ubuntu or Fedora. Now whenever he prints pages every line of text has a line through it.

He has been able to verify that it is not his printer. He has tried a Live CD as well and is having the same issue. When he goes back to the old version things print fine.

He surmises it is some sort of diagnostic feature in CUPS or some other part of the printing subsystem that is improperly turned on by default.

Has anyone seen this before? I am not a Linux expert, but I would like to help him out.

Sounds like Haier is opening the door! in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] morph3ous@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The issue you are experiencing likely has nothing to do with the VPN. Network connectivity is not needed to unlock the car. I have been in places with no cell phone signal and it still works.

I do sometimes experience the same issue you are. If I wake up my phone, then it works. So it may be working for you not because you disabled the VPN, but because you woke up your phone and it then sent out the bluetooth signal to let the car know you were nearby.

Followup on the vehicle "kill switch" mandated by the Infrastructure Bill in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] morph3ous@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Thanks for summarizing this up for us. It will be interesting to see where this goes.