It means your coffee pod machine just came online and the coffee is currently spewing from the spout … probably.

In Australia:

https://reebelo.com.au/

Does this mean that the reverse is also true?

And all three users rejoiced!

Seriously, while self-hosting is an option for some, it’s not viable for the vast majority of humanity and unless something revolutionary happens, that’s unlikely to change. Ultimately, technology is complex and our dependence on it will continue to create friction.

As it turns out, not every problem has a simple solution.

Between the clickbait, YouTube “enhancements”, exploding AI slop videos and the atrocious search facility, the platform is rapidly becoming completely unusable for finding relevant information when you’re looking for answers.

As an entertainment platform it’s forcing creators to make long form content and making viewers sit through more and more low quality content.

It’s evolving, but I’m pretty sure it’s heading towards extinction, rather than greatness.

… and your point is?

I wonder what the criteria are to define what an artist is, or what requirements are needed to qualify for such assistance.

Unlikely.

You underestimate the size of the Universe. There’s 8 billion people on Earth, there’s about 200 billion stars in our galaxy, and between 100 billion to 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe.

Wait until you get your head around awk 😇

The commands man and apropos are your friends to get you started.

Learning how to use specific tools like grep, sed and awk is a case of getting started by using them. Most of the subsequent learning process will focus around how to create regular expressions (regex), for which there’s also a manpage.

The “typical example” for a dd command is like saying, “here’s a great way to shoot yourself in the foot”. A better way is to understand that most of these tools follow the UNIX philosophy:

1. Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new “features”.
2. Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program. Don’t clutter output with extraneous information. Avoid stringently columnar or binary input formats. Don’t insist on interactive input.
3. Design and build software, even operating systems, to be tried early, ideally within weeks. Don’t hesitate to throw away the clumsy parts and rebuild them.
4. Use tools in preference to unskilled help to lighten a programming task, even if you have to detour to build the tools and expect to throw some of them out after you’ve finished using them.

Once you “grok” that, you’ll be in a much better place.

How would you suggest I respond in the future?

We have a person, claiming that CUPS doesn’t work and they now uninstall it on every installation.

There is no context, no data, no information that suggests what the issue is, what they tried, when this occurred, on which platform, under which conditions.

In other words, the user was essentially saying “CUPS sux”.

Having used Linux as my main system for over 25 years, that sentiment did not match my own experience, does not help anyone, not me, not the user and not the OP who was trying to solve a problem, let alone anyone else reading along.

I responded accordingly.

This has not been my experience … at … all.

Perhaps it would be helpful to discover what exactly doesn’t work for you and fix that, rather than remove CUPS because one time it didn’t work for you seven years ago.

You could print to CUPS from the other devices and potentially bypass all those shenanigans.

Also, CUPS has a PDF printer which saves you from even heating up your printer at all … I haven’t had a printer in my life for over 25 years.

Oblivious or Complicit, neither is something you want to run your government.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (Exterminate)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

So the people in that office are either oblivious, or complicit.

In what universe is anyone going to wear that contraption?

I wonder if the USA will run out of essential items before or after the next election.

There’s 10 types of people, those who understood binary …

It uses a security feature of Linux called cgroups or control groups to limit access to resources at a kernel level.

It’s used all over the place, including as the basis of Docker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups