Fundamental Interconnectedness
Crowdfunding, especially Kickstarter, has been one of the great successes of the Internet age, enabling creators to ensure they have a market before committing to the expensive parts of producing the product. It works best when the crowdfunding is aiming satisfying the first buyers of the project, with the up front crowdfunding payments covering the fixed costs needed to produce the project for…
I have a Brother HL-2270DW laser printer , that I bought in 2014 , which is still going fine almost 10 years later. As the article says " buy the Brother laser printer, it's fine ". The Brother HL-2270DW supports (wired) network printing and WiFi printing, but unfortunately its design pre-dated Apple's creation of AirPrint and the printer industry creation of IPP Everywhere (both AirPrint and IPP…
Introduction The (original) Linux i386 architecture is pretty close to being removed, especially from Debian Linux (but also from the Linux kernel). The last few years have brought several announcements of "this is the last release with i386", only for there to be one more "last release" with i386 as a supported architecture. And various third party software has dropped support for i386, or is in…