Part 2 of: printer moved to new location= CUPS cannot find its drivers anymore

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 23:38:25 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 19:16, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> It's a dilemma, we reached the zenith of the very first era of
>> computer culture.  
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>No no. We're at about the 5th or 6th.
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>> There's the need of a collapse, followed by a realignment.  
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>Definitely agreed.
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>1st generation: mainframes.
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>[...]
>5th gen: 1990s and 32-bit micros.
>[...]
>The next gen grew out seamlessly from the one before, so I wouldn't
>call if a 6th gen.
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>5.5th gen: 21st century, fully 32-bit and then 64-bit computing
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>The 1990s OSes all finally die off[...]

Some were no operating systems at all, we call them "operating
system", even if it were just "disk operating systems" or even less than
that.

We had several generations of hardware that came with some new software
approaches and due to the price trend also an enormous increase of the
number of users happened, but all those changes occurred within the
first computer culture. The current culture is the first culture with
digital natives, while some of us non-digital natives are still alive.
Complete idiots of my generation clapped their hands to turn off or on
the lights, complete idiots nowadays ask Alexa to do it. No
housecleaner jobs get lost due to robotic vacuum cleaners. We are the
culture of computer pyramids, of computer stone graves, a high culture
bringing sacrifices to the gods. Rare earth elements dug in Africa,
technology made in China, nothing is done done by slaves, all those
people are paid. They are volunteers, as the people building the
Egyptian pyramids were, too. Actually I still learned in school that the
Egyptian pyramids were build by slaves, but archaeologist and historians
redefine the meaning of slavery, so the people became volunteers.
Comparable to our generations of computers, the Egyptians had different
generations of pyramids. In short, different generations aren't
different cultures. Keep in mind that you and I aren't digital natives,
but we are computer experts. Subscribers of this list were born
before the invention of the transistor. Technological progress happens
within one and the same culture.