jumping through 10 hoops to install a printer reminds me of Ubuntu in like 2007

[cimorene]

There was a slight fuckup in returning the dishes to the funeral caterers Monday (I didn't spot the last thermos in the trunk), and we had to make another trip to their downtown café, Hallonblad [Swedish: Raspberry leaf... though the owners seem to be Finnish-speaking], to give it back and retrieve a tray that we gave them accidentally when it actually belongs to the diocese meeting house (this is a thing they do in Finland where the sanctuary bit of the church is in the historic building and the congregation owns a separate building which is typically also old but not AS old - definitely none of them are like, medieval, which most of the churches are - which is used for social gatherings and stuff like that) where the funeral reception was held. (MIL was not religious, but like many Finns, remained a registered member of the state church — which entitles one to church space for the sacraments in exchange for one's tax money, which is all that most Finns use it for.)

We've been to the café in the summertime, when they do lunch specials, which I conjecture are cooked at their large restaurant and driven in since the café doesn't have space for a kitchen; but in the summer it's kind of... warm everywhere, and the sunlight is so bright you can barely see, and it's crowded, and you are hastening back outside to sit at the outdoor tables... so I didn't even notice that they have an amazing selection of pastries and cakes, and their interior is incredibly charming and cozy. Now I really want to go back there, and I could walk there in probably... five minutes? And it's not like I'm afraid to go to cafés by myself or anything. I just have so much ennui and yuck that I can't really overcome the initial reluctance to get moving and go outside and go out in public around strangers and... stuff. And I can't go there with Wax until she has a weekday off (and then we'll be too busy trying to renovate the house probably).

Also, I found out last night that our old but completely functional HP printer-scanner won't work with the latest version of Ubuntu. I upgraded recently, and now my machine can't automatically find the drivers, and when I went through a whole rigamarole and finally installed what purported to be the correct ones, it couldn't detect the scanner. We have MIL's laser printer, which is newer, but even though it's HP (which is supposed to be the magic bullet of Linux printer compatibility!) I already failed to install it on my computer a couple of months ago (maybe because HP contracts the manufacture of their laser printers to Canon?). We hardly ever need to print things, which always makes printer stuff feel like a ridiculous expense, but if nothing else we definitely need the scanner.

But! I did rearrange the stuff in the bunny area yesterday and today and Chief Inspector Japp was extremely happy about it this morning:

Comments

[vass]

All printers are satanically possessed. It is a technical fact.

[tozka]

I've also been struggling to connect my printer and scanner to my laptop running Ubuntu, and basically the only thing that worked was CUPS (free) for the printer and VueScan (paid) for the scanner. But even then, my Brother printer likes to disconnect itself and disappear from the available printer list, so idk. ;_;