I realize you're being witty for comedic effect but aren't you genuinely curious whether this was something trivial or a complex systems interaction? The few times an LLM debugged something for me, it only took 10s to ask for a summary, and I learned something new and interesting every time, even useful at times.
I see the people around me care that little, when I see them at all as I'm effectively on remote teams most of the time (and soon to be fully on remote teams almost all of the time if I don't leave) and I don't want to be that nor do I want to be the only one, or one of the few, who gives a crap.
I know that if I continue to avoid it I'll have a fine future in the hospitality industry, with dicking around with tech as at best a hobby, but I'm hating tech work because of the everyone-is-remote business anyway so that is likely be better for my mental health. Better off skint but alive… Good luck to the rest of you.
Congratulations, you have turned CUPS into a long-term support contract with Anthropic at $20/month, except the other party doesn't have to actually fix your shit and can arbitrarily alter the agreement.
$20 for an everything tool is a steal. It’s a steal at 10x the price.
I’ll happily accept best effort in exchange for it being so cheap that I can throw it at any trivial annoyance.
It’s worth keeping in mind that the alternative is not really that I learn to fix the printer. It’s that I forgo printing and walk someone technologically illiterate through Docusign or something instead.
There’s no world where I spend 2 hours debugging my printer connection.
It’s not $20 unlimited though, you’ll get a printer fixed then you’ll have to wait 8 hours. Then you’ll ask it to fix something else and it will make a mess of it. Hopefully you’ll realise it at the time rather than a few weeks later and hopefully it will be able to dig you out of your hole.
At least on Windows and Mac (since about 2017), Chrome doesn’t stay in sync with the printers installed on the OS but retains previous (ghost) profiles. So after printer updates (reinstalls) users will report printing working from Firefox, Edge, and Safari but not Chrome. (From the Chrome print dialog the user is selecting a printer with the same name as the current OS printer but the option displayed in Chrome is cached and since deleted.)
Yes, but in my experience Claude is much better at diagnosing issues on Linux than any other OS because it's text-native and is the best documented OS.
I will never know.
I realize you're being witty for comedic effect but aren't you genuinely curious whether this was something trivial or a complex systems interaction? The few times an LLM debugged something for me, it only took 10s to ask for a summary, and I learned something new and interesting every time, even useful at times.
I don't understand not wanting to understand.
I have seriously dealt with this for 30 years, from before cups existed, and as I said I have forgotten more about lpd and cups than most people know.
You have no idea how much I don't want to understand.
I am not being witty for comedic effect.
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This is the AI we were promised
That is one of best answers
This is one of the reasons why I'm avoiding it.
I see the people around me care that little, when I see them at all as I'm effectively on remote teams most of the time (and soon to be fully on remote teams almost all of the time if I don't leave) and I don't want to be that nor do I want to be the only one, or one of the few, who gives a crap.
I know that if I continue to avoid it I'll have a fine future in the hospitality industry, with dicking around with tech as at best a hobby, but I'm hating tech work because of the everyone-is-remote business anyway so that is likely be better for my mental health. Better off skint but alive… Good luck to the rest of you.
"...and I do not care."
The virtue is never having to know for stupid printer crap.
Congratulations, you have turned CUPS into a long-term support contract with Anthropic at $20/month, except the other party doesn't have to actually fix your shit and can arbitrarily alter the agreement.
$20 for an everything tool is a steal. It’s a steal at 10x the price.
I’ll happily accept best effort in exchange for it being so cheap that I can throw it at any trivial annoyance.
It’s worth keeping in mind that the alternative is not really that I learn to fix the printer. It’s that I forgo printing and walk someone technologically illiterate through Docusign or something instead.
There’s no world where I spend 2 hours debugging my printer connection.
I have forgotten more ways to fix CUPS than most people know today.
I really don't care.
It’s not $20 unlimited though, you’ll get a printer fixed then you’ll have to wait 8 hours. Then you’ll ask it to fix something else and it will make a mess of it. Hopefully you’ll realise it at the time rather than a few weeks later and hopefully it will be able to dig you out of your hole.
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Then run a local model
At least on Windows and Mac (since about 2017), Chrome doesn’t stay in sync with the printers installed on the OS but retains previous (ghost) profiles. So after printer updates (reinstalls) users will report printing working from Firefox, Edge, and Safari but not Chrome. (From the Chrome print dialog the user is selecting a printer with the same name as the current OS printer but the option displayed in Chrome is cached and since deleted.)
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/81894848/mac-printi...
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/5843479/printer-sti...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255327049
> Don't leave us hanging, what was the issue?
A: Linux
Yes, but in my experience Claude is much better at diagnosing issues on Linux than any other OS because it's text-native and is the best documented OS.
I've had so few issues with Linux compared to Windows over the past 10y. This is a ridiculous and dated take.
Even stuff that was truly a no-go is fixed (nvidia/cuda, wine/proton for gaming).