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by Zopieux9 hours ago |
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upvoteby jackdoe9 hours ago|
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I will never know.
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upvoteby Zopieux1 hours ago|
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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.

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upvoteby jackdoe1 hours ago|
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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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upvoteby futhey6 hours ago|
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This is the AI we were promised
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upvoteby netdur9 hours ago|
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That is one of best answers
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upvoteby bluerooibos4 hours ago|
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"...and I do not care."
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upvoteby keane3 hours ago|
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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

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upvoteby MattGaiser9 hours ago|
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The virtue is never having to know for stupid printer crap.
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upvoteby pona-a9 hours ago|
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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.
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upvoteby jackdoe8 hours ago|
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I have forgotten more ways to fix CUPS than most people know today.

I really don't care.

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upvoteby fzzzy1 hours ago|
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Then run a local model
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upvoteby MattGaiser8 hours ago|
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$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.

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upvoteby rusk7 hours ago|
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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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upvoteby mistersquid7 hours ago|
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> Don't leave us hanging, what was the issue?

A: Linux

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upvoteby nsvd26 hours ago|
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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.
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upvoteby Zopieux1 hours ago|
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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).

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