All good things come to an end, I guess.

I have an Epson printer (AcuLaser C1100) and an Epson scanner (Perfection V10), both of which I bought about 20 years ago. The hardware still works perfectly fine.

Until recently, Epson still provided Linux drivers for them. That is pretty cool! I noticed today that they have relaunched their driver website – and now I can’t find any Linux drivers for that hardware anymore. Just doesn’t list it (it does list some drivers for Windows 7, for example).

I mean, okay, we’re talking about 20 years here. That is a very long time, much more than I expected. But if it still works, why not keep using it?

Some years ago, I started archiving these drivers locally, because I anticipated that they might vanish at some point. So I can still use my hardware for now (even if I had to reinstall my PC for some reason). It might get hacky at some point in the future, though.

This once more underlines the importance of FOSS drivers for your hardware. I sadly didn’t pay attention to that 20 years ago.

deployed #appwrite in production to build backend for a product i have in mind for a while. 😄

feel free to ask me for an acount if you’re building an application, i can host your little project at the early stage.

i support #foss & fellow developers.

On Black Mirror S07E01: never thought I would feel the importance of FOSS. What a punch in the stomach.

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E se o satoshi que ninguem conhece fosse o golpe perfeito de um plano maior do governo pra roubar as pessoas?

@al4xs@vaporhole.xyz, Não pense como se o ocidente fosse uma coisa só, pois não é, a China não enfraquecxe ninguém, apenas está ascendendo como potência, termos mais potências é melhor do que ter só uma hegemônica. O mundo tá horrível, mas sempre esteve assim. Vamos lutar pra ter uma onda de melhoras novamente!

[FastLyrics] una app FOSS que me ha sorprendid por su desempeño, las letras ok.

[FastLyrics] una app FOSS que me ha sorprendid por su desempeño, las letras ok.

Maglit, excelente acortador de enlaces FOSS, dejo una mala noticia como ejemplo 👇.

Maglit, excelente acortador de enlaces FOSS, dejo una mala noticia como ejemplo 👇.

Writing free software is like painting. You should do it if you feel like it, or if you, yourself, get something out of it. The moment you start to feel that you are owed something is the moment that you should stop doing it, because what you do from then on is probably not going to be any good. Is it even worth working on FOSS anymore? | Hacker News