tl;dr: Gradual exposure over time.

I got used to it through work, as I had to ssh into a server to run simulations. That mainly involved navigating the file system and text editing (which I used vim for) to make some basic Python and bash scripts, including sed and awk. The latter two I never got comfortable using, and haven’t really touched since.

I was using macOS at the time, and after using that for work, the terminal in macOS got at first less scary and then a preferred way of accomplishing certain tasks. On my work Windows computer I started missing having a proper terminal around, and I eventually found Cygwin and later Git Bash to give me that terminal fix in Windows as well. Especially with the latter I noticed few differences and could use it to a large extent as I would have on my then Macbook.

2-3 years ago I was in need of a new computer, and at that point a laptop with Linux on it was not a very scary prospect. That is by no way saying I went into Linux as an expert, far from it, and I am still very much a newbie - but opening the terminal to work with things is not at all a barrier, which helps a lot if you use Linux and want to be able to do some changes from the defaults. If you don’t want that, I think you can go far these days without opening the terminal, but it is certainly a good skill to have.

You also don’t have access to your fire box in that Hanoi alley.

hunter2 can both be stored in a password mananger and be remembered!

That’s simple and smart. I had played around with the thought of storing encrypted versions of my password manager vault freely available, and making the password a Ceasar cipher of the first letters of each chapter of some book I am sure to find freely online. Not so simple and smart, but at least some fun. Except maybe when you actually need to use it.

At least it was a good night.

I’m thankfully currently not in that situation, but while the situation is meant as a joke, the question is serious.

If I stored everything I needed on a Google account that’s not 2FA-enabled and with a password you remember in your head, things are not that bleak in this particular situation, although it is hardly a convenience that makes it worth it to have that kind of setup in my opinion (and I would assume to most people frequenting this community).

On what computer, and where did you get the ISO from?

Hey! It works now :) After opening it up, I ended up cleaning the nozzles by pumping isopropanol through them (filled a syringe with it, removed the dummy cartridges and connected the syringe and nozzles with a PVC-tube). After that I ran the nozzle cleaning program through the epson-printer-utility tool a couple of times (not the power cleaning), and then printed some full color pages of CMYK.

The program, which initially this post was about (hence the Linix community) worked once I realized it didn’t pick it up while I was connected with VPN. Then scanning tool does, not sure how this tool atrempts to find the printer that it is not caught by the default split tunneling set up by Proton VPN.

Finamp you mean?

Cheers, it looks like I will have to open up this week end then and forget about these cleaning programs.

Thanks for that! I’m not quite sure what the dummy cartridge is, however, and how I would access it. Would you be able to elaborate on that?

It’s insane that this bullshit can be pushed again and again and again. It gives me some comfort that they have still not succeeded, but they only need to succeed once, and if they are not blocked from putting this forward again, we would have to succeed again and again and again.