# HG changeset patch # User Steve Losh # Date 1694017723 14400 # Node ID 70ca11d4910dd4da8629f125991fbdf854ed138e # Parent f5eb389b001021ea7e2b631f5358e9ab473c7812 Update diff -r f5eb389b0010 -r 70ca11d4910d README.markdown --- a/README.markdown Wed Sep 06 11:52:18 2023 -0400 +++ b/README.markdown Wed Sep 06 12:28:43 2023 -0400 @@ -1048,4 +1048,24 @@ Wanted to print something in the lab, realized I never installed any printing support on this laptop, lol. `apt install cups` will hopefully Just Work. CUPS -interface is at `http://localhost:631/`. +interface is at `http://localhost:631/`. It did not Just Work. Surely 2024 +will be The Year of Linux on the Desktop. Printer wouldn't configure itself, +driver didn't appear in the list when I tried to manually configure it through +CUPS. `apt install printer-driver-all` got me more drivers but not this one. +Tracked it down on the brother site and downloaded some `.deb` packages but +they're 32-bit instead of 64. Gave up at this point, what a janky shitshow of +an OS. If only everything else didn't suck in even worse ways. + +Tried getting the VPN running. Installed with the script into `/opt/cisco` +(good). Got mysterious errors when trying to connect. Tried the GUI connection +manager, which runs, but gave a more informative error message I could search +for. Looks like I need to install `libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37`. Installed that, now +I get the login screen, but I can't 2FA because I only have Yubikeys set up but +that requires a real browser, not this jank webkitgtk thing, so now I need to +set up *another* 2FA method just for this. Good god. Tried to add a new device +via Duo, but that requires 2FAing *again*, but this time it's through the Duo +site which doesn't actually fucking work on Linux, so I can't add it here, I'll +need to use the Windows shitbox at home. God, I hate two-factor authentication +so much. It's *always* miserable. + +