This is the answer.

Alternatively, use supports.

I bet you didn’t even notice the lion.

I wasn’t aware of RustDesk. I’ve looked for usable solutions in the past and was never saw it or anything else like TeamViewer.

The nature of the problem seems to require a hosted service. So TeamViewer fit the bill and was free for this use case. But I’ll have a look at RustDesk now that I’m aware of it.

All that being said, I don’t mind closed-source. I’m an open-source zealot, but I’m not Richard Stallman. I use Linux at work so I’ll use whatever software gets the job done at the end of the day. I’m just glad to see more software work on Linux.

TeamViewer, or similar.

My mom has been running Linux Mint for 10+ years now. She is not tech savvy, but also not helpless. She has needed help a handful of times, usually with a printer.

Trying to talk anybody through support remotely is a PITA, Linux or Windows. So NAT-triendly remote desktop is very helpful.

Brother QL-1110NWB

Works flawlessly on Ubuntu. Even the cut feature. I recall looking at their Linux driver page, but can’t recall if it was even necessary to install it.

Because this is a network-enabled model, it was auto-detected on the network. That makes printing from Android a breeze as well.

I imagine the other Brother models work just as well like the QL-1100.

I would seriously reconsider Hertz

While I do believe that you may have received some decent service, that is a bit of a surprise to me. But that’s not my reason for recommending against them.

No, I would dissuade you from them just to keep you from getting unnecessarily arrested. Hertz has a bad habit of claiming their customers have stolen their vehicles. I presume this is due to very poor tracking on their part.

I personally witnessed this, although I did not get arrested fortunately. They called me two weeks after returning the car to ask if I planned to return it. They called me two more weeks after that again.

I’ve seen reports for years since then of people in the same situation getting arrested after Hertz reported the car stolen.

Is this the same third that didn’t vote in the last election?

gnome-network-displays let’s you cast your screen to a wireless display (Miracast) or to a Chromecast device.

It works with KDE no problem and even under Wayland.

It creates a virtual display that can be organized like any other display: unify with another screen or extend the desktop using your DE’s default method/UI. And then it uses standard screen sharing conventions to send content to that virtual display.

I don’t know what kind of dark arts the developer(s) employed to make this possible, but the end result is simple wireless display in Linux that just works! A MUST for using Linux in a business setting.

Nope. That’s Johnson & Johnson. Different company.

I’m not sure if it’s still true, but I seem to recall SC Johnson having profits as the lowest of their corporate objectives with higher ones being things like improving people’s lives and bringing value to the world.

Granted, it’s all just text, and times change, but I’d be curious to know if there’s any truth to it, especially today.

The printer’s name is Marvin, from HHGTTG.

It never wants to work and always complains.

I just checked again and you’re right! The app seems to now be available for older versions of WebOS whereas it wasn’t a year ago or so.

Thanks for the heads up!

Jellyfin didn’t have an app for my then 3-year old LG WebOS TV so, unfortunately, I couldn’t use it.

I know people are going to say I should just use a smart box connected to my TV instead of my TV’s smart features, but there’s a difference in usability that they’re not acknowledging.

I know this reference

I’ve heard that exact sound used on some computers (lottery maybe?) in gas stations in the US. I’m not sure why they picked that exact sound, but it’s definitely distinct and recognizable.

Uh oh

Completely true. And I would dictate my driving characteristics based on that fact.

I would drive at a speed and in a manner that would allow me to not almost crash into things. But especially trains.

In what way is it not ready to use?

To me it seems you just spent three paragraphs answering your own question.

can’t even see 50 meters ahead

didn’t understand what it was and how to react to it

FSD is not a finished product. It’s under development

doesn’t mean it’s obvious to the AI

If I couldn’t trust a system not to drive into a train, I don’t feel like I would trust it to do even the most common tasks. I would drive the car like a fully attentive human and not delude myself into thinking the car is driving me with “FSD.”

I’ve never hit a train. And I’ve also never almost hit a train. I think I could go my entire life never almost hitting trains and I would still consider that the bare minimum for a mammal with two eyes and a brain.