Usually for these devices the application generates ZPL printer data directly. What application are you thinking of using?

Zebra indicates that there are CUPS drivers available for their printers on “some Linux distributions”

https://supportcommunity.zebra.com/s/article/Adding-a-Zebra-Printer-in-a-CUPS-Printing-System?language=en_US

There’s also this GitHub repo which promises a better PPD file for Zebra printers.

https://github.com/mvnural/zebra-cups-driver

I’ll add the PineTime to that. Doesn’t do anything too fancy but it works well enough.

Probably because they’re dead simple.

It’s not even about preference but about versatility and adaptability.

You don’t have to be prefer to use them, but being able to deal with the unexpected and figure out the unfamiliar is generally a sign of intelligence.

I understand it. Who wants to use two passwords to access their computer?

Light brown aka tan.

The logic is that the most useful app will be the most popular by virtue of its utility.

Not always true but I’m sure there’s some correlation.

Keeper, myself. Work gives me a free/subsidized family plan so sure I’ll take it.

Definitely better than Lastpass.

No I mean “locked”.

I don’t care about windows bitching about these files, I am offended that it shits them (and “desktop.ini”) all over everywhere.

It’s a total hack, and pathetic for a company the size of Microsoft.

Not sure what you’re talking about. “Locked”?

Yes well you’re not wrong.

Although I use ext4.

For Linux, the equivalent is Extended Attributes, although they come with significant limitations.

It works, and yes only on NTFS… but many applications may not be able to open these “files”.

It’s actually sort of a weird historical thing, goes back to the roots of Windows NT in VMS and also compatibility with Mac OS (classic) and its “resource forks”

Alternate data streams look like normal files but with an appended identifier.

For example test.txt:stream1 is an alternate data stream of test.txt. Move or copy the file and the ADS goes with it.

They can be created like other files (“echo > test.txt:stream1”)

You can see them with “dir /r” at the command line.

You can even have an alternate data stream with no corresponding file. In my opinion this is what thumbs.db should have been.

Seriously fuck thumbs.db anywhere it can be found.

THIS IS WHY NTFS HAS ALTERNATE DATA STREAMS, USE THEM YOU FUCKERS YOU CREATED IT.

Tenacity is the only one that is still actively being maintained.

I’m glad they stuck with it!

The video is great, and I’m excited for the new Audacity. But that logo/icon is an abomination.

It seems only natural…

• the “grandma”/casual users never try anything complicated or different so nothing goes wrong.
• the “pro” users either know what they are doing well enough to not make a mistake or to fix it when it goes wrong.
• the middle users will always have it harder, they are trying things beyond the margins of “easy” so of course things go wrong and they don’t know how to fix it.

Anecdotal example: just yesterday I found out that I broke my file picker function in five out of six web browsers, by loading an Xcompose file with some definitions that GTK apparently doesn’t like. It took me about 5 hours of poking at things to figure out that a change I did a week ago, broke a function I hardly ever use. So I did fix it eventually but I it took me a week to notice and then hours to track down what was going on.

Is there any chance at all that the casual users would be using a compose key, let alone loading a custom definition file for it? Hell no!

But here’s the secret: there is nobody out there who is the perfect expert who never makes a mistake and knows all things. We’re all out here pushing boundaries; the only difference is where those boundaries are.

This applies outside of IT just as much, maybe more. It’s the rare person who will admit it though.

Nah, lots of train nerds doing train nerd stuff.

Surprisingly little Thomas fan-mods tho.

Railroader. Lots of heavily-modded Railroader.

It’s clearly intended to be “git tea” given its little cute signin page, “git with a cup of tea”.

But yeah my boss calls it like “git taya” and I feel like an idiot trying to say “gitty”[-up!]