bishop

Saved me a paragraph there.

Something must be done!

This is something, therefore it must be done.

• c suite morons the world over

You’re a good man, Charlie Brown. A good solution to a situation I was considering.

R.I.P. maemo Linux forums, I knew thee well.

In case you weren’t joking, there’s an excellent project called valetudo that allows you to neuter the phone-home capabilities of supported models of these dodgy chinese spyware machines that happen to also clean your house, with very decent home assistant compatibility.

If you’re buying a 1k+ $£€ robot, make sure you really own it properly and hack it.

Bames Jonds havink a stronk. Call a bondulance.

Owned by an Israeli billionaire, with all the implications that come with that.

Of course they have, it’s just the people asking for it are also the people who own, one way or another, the creatures we are presented with as political candidates. I.E. the billionaire and ownership class. What the plebs want doesn’t matter, and the squeaky wheel gets the grease every time.

First and best info would be, what does your budget for the printer look like?

Does he have much space to keep it and it’s peripherals?

Are you thinking an FDM printer that lays down many layers of hot material, or a resin printer that exposes liquid resin to a light source to set it in layers?

There are many good options at different price points, and I’m sure other people will know more than me but I hope this helps a little. Happy to provide more in-depth info.

If for any reason there’s push-back on it, I’m also willing to throw a second voice behind the request as I too am de-googling and would appreciate a better solution than using APK mirror sites or aurora “anonymously”, for all the good it does.

Could always email the developer. hello@octoapp.eu And ask that they fix their gitlab releases. Then use Obtanium to create a custom updater for it once it’s done.

https://programming.dev/c/linuxupskillchallenge

He’s not even going to lose his job

You’re going to have a few issues with the above, whilst it is possible to install an rpm package to Debian, like so: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-rpm-package-on-ubuntu-linux

It’s a bit of a niche use case and may cause other issues, I’ve never done it.

The other issue is that the broadcom drivers for that wireless card are closed source, which is antithetical to debians mission to provide an entirely open system.

There are open source reverse engineered drivers (b43) and open official drivers, (brcmsmac/brcmfmac) for some older broadcom chips but only supporting up to wireless N functionality, if I remember correctly.

After a brief scout about I have located the following: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/175810/how-to-install-broadcom-bcm4360-on-debian-on-macbook-pro

it appears the closed source driver package, wl, is able to provide support for one of two chipsets on the 4360 wireless card, but there is no support for the other.

If you have a phone that can provide usb tethering, you are most likely able to provide internet to your laptop that way and continue from there to install the broadcom wl driver, if it supports your chipset. The above stack exchange link and this arch wiki link should help with that. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Broadcom_wireless

Direct Rendering Manager

I believe you are looking for the command-not-found package