Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:46:54 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Stop scaring users with "treason uncloaked!" | From | (Lennart Sorensen) |
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 05:06:13PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > No one has printer ports any more so it hardly seems worth the trouble.
USB printers go through the same code.
> Most people won't actually think their printer is on fire. But most > people WILL think there is serious cause for concern when they see this > for the first time in dmesg. Many will search the net for explanations > and come away confused and not entirely reassured. And at least one > clueless guy will call the police because he still thinks he's under > attack.
I dealt with an epson inkjet (USB based) a few years ago that would reliably trigger that message when it was out of ink. I thought it was ammusing that they picked that signal to indicate out of ink.
Not sure if current models do it too.
> Now that certainly fits my definition of amusing and if my goal for > Linux was to amuse myself at the expense of users, I'd be all for > keeping it[1]. But perversely, I actually want users to enjoy their > Linux experience. > > [1] Hell, I'd probably even get them to use git.
-- Len Sorensen
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