Every time I see posts like this one and go into comments, everyone in the comments treat writing as a hobby which they would like to turn into work and earn money from, more or less. And I suppose the words "writing" and "blogging" associate with the community around themselves in their minds, not with the text information per se.

I'm writing technical articles (blog posts) my whole life most of the time as a result of me learning something new, to structure the information on some topic for myself and others.

If it's a research, I make a post with all the information and final result of it in public, primarily for myself and sometimes for others, because 95% of the time it's not secret and there's no point to store it privately.

If it's a helpful information (software: unofficial bugfix, hacky workaround, poorly documented feature somewhere, etc), I want it to be searchable/indexed, only that.

I don't care about attribution, about who reads my writing (be it me, my friends, people I don't know, or AI), I have no incentive to push (as in post here or on social networks) or promote these articles in any way. I don't want people to get back to my site, to subscribe to it, or to build a community around it.

If the user types "How do I solve issue X" and by a mere coincidence I solved and documented it, I don't care if the user gets the solution from my website, from the scrape & repost websites, or from AI agent which scraped the site. If this helps the user to fix the issue or to learn something new, every way is fine for me!

But if you're writing for yourself, articles with multimedia, or want to use advanced features, no platform provides anything close to what you can do on your website.

Take a look at https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/ for example.

You can unlock it with additional free option.

Here's my article about that from 2021. It's for the devices sold in Russia, but this issue is worldwide: https://habr.com/ru/articles/575626/

And here's more detailed research of two particular devices: https://notes.valdikss.org.ru/trojan-digma/

To learn more about halftones, I'd recommend PDF specification, pages 303-307.

https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/standards/p...

>But if you care about the method this is not dithering.

> I looked it up, the translation in this case is, in fact, simply "half tones" :^)

I'd recommend mailcow for regular usage, or mailinabox if you're low on RAM or configuring email for server (not for people).

4 different countries, different AS.

I'm always puzzled by all the issues described by others. I had about 4 issues during these 15 years, all 4 were solved by reading the bounce message and doing what was asked in the message (contacting support of the destination).

>Structure: Registrations are at third level beneath second-level labels

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.py

I've taped a LED strip on the back of the display and powered it from one of the USB ports.

By running `uhubctl --vendor 0451 --action toggle --port 4` from the desktop shortcut, I can toggle LED strip on and off, Philips Ambilight-style.

If you just need to convert USB printer to a Wi-Fi printer, the regular old print server will work for you, and you'll need to install the driver on the PC. You won't be able to print to such a printer from the smartphones, without third-party software or at all.

With my device, you can. It will act like a regular modern AirPrint-supported printer.

Contrary to older-generation print server hardware or home routers with printer-sharing functions, my device does not require to install any printer-specific drivers or applications on your devices but uses universal standard drivers available in any contemporary operating system.

The printer driver is running on the print server itself, freeing you from installing drivers on the PC.

In other words, with it you can use AirPrint and Mopria to print and scan over the network on your USB printer.

https://www.behance.net/whorma

https://dribbble.com/whorma

    * Convert your old USB printer (or MFP) into Wi-Fi printer/MFP
    * Print and scan without drivers from Windows/macOS/Linux, as well as iOS/Android
    * Use your old printer with any modern PC, Mac or smartphone, even if the driver is obsolete and doesn't work on current OS versions

In the EU, there are companies which specialize on buying old used printers from the golden era of manufacturing (2004-2012), professionally refurbish them, and sell with the warranty. These older printers are usually much sturdier and cheaper in maintenance than the current models. That's why there's a need for such a device even when the user buys 'new' printer, because many want to print over Wi-Fi.

Is it's the case for the US as well? I've seen different sellers on ebay for older printers, but the idea of buying a used printer doesn't seem to be common at all from what I could see.

This is more or less a preconfigured SBC with CUPS + SANE + AirSane + box86, with all the drivers installed and tested (incl. many proprietary, for x86, which are running under emulation), and many patches to ensure stable and fast operation.

The price would be around $45-60. Used to be cheaper, but due to current RAM prices can't go lower unfortunately.

Do you personally want such a device (or know someone who might want it) and would buy it for this price?

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https://github.com/parksb/parksb.github.io-comments/issues/2...

I guess that's why Soulseek could be present on the sites like Google Play and in general is seen as a "music library" unlike basically all other p2p music file sharing/piracy resources.

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