That's not far enough. The Republican party should be disbanded for capitulating to Trump's authoritarianism. They've basically just abandoned their post to let a king in all but name run amok.
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To be fair, tanks seem to be a favored tool of these oppressive regimes. I'm personally not against communism, they have some good ideas like universal child care, guaranteed jobs, and housing (even though the latter may be considered sub-par by some). The problem comes when these fucking authoritarian cheerleaders come out and say communist governments were never oppressive.
Because I've tried some of the more "beginner friendly" distros that don't offer the things I'm looking for. Proper Nvidia drivers, access to VPNs, and a few other basics I need aren't easy to install in the other distros I've tried like Mint or Bazzite compared to what Arch has to offer. Considering there are a few other things I want to do with my PC it makes sense to jump into the deep end and figure it out as I go along.
You're not alone. My family went no gifts this year and we just went out to eat and stayed home with some decent whiskey and beer.
I'll try deb2arch soon. For now though what can I do with a tarball? I thought tar.gz just meant a compressed file by tar = tape archive and gz being the gzip program used to compress it. From my limited knowledge, this just looks like a compressed file with the files needed to run in either a fedora or debian environment.
No luck for this model from what I can tell.
I just need it to print and scan some multi page documents into a PDF. As a recent install, CachyOS recognizes the printer through USB but I have no means to communicate with it to fulfill those two basic requirements. The driver program I used when I was still on Windows provided a basic GUI with that functionality.
UPDATE: I followed the CUPS terminal manual that sent me to localhost: 631. From there it was pretty straightforward until I couldn't find the MF212w model. I suspect since it's so old it's no longer supported. I'd hate to toss out such a perfectly good laser printer just so I could have less hassle setting up a way to communicate with it.

Please don't forget to extend your services to jail breaking car-based telemetry when you do.
My original comment points out the social credit system is something that doesn't really exist but was used to scare western capitalists. I'm merely saying that non-existent Boogeyman is actually being used through a financial lens in the US instead.
I've had a consistent score of a little over 800 before and after purchasing my house by paying off my credit cards ahead of time. I had no major long term debt other than a mortgage either. That said, this is pretty much the equivalent to that Chinese social credit score crap but it's real in this case. It just means you're ranking high in some opaque game on your financial prospects that the banks are playing.
They were somewhat subsidized thanks to a special STEM program that gave a small stipend for textbooks so it helped a lot. Still, I wish everyone who wants a proper education shouldn't have to worry about the cost of their books or tuition. Life is bleak enough here in the US without needing to finance our future with ever lowering odds of success.

The rich would never go near a municipal dump, much less climb a literal mountain of garbage... Unless it's located in the highest point in the world, then they'd happily pay for the privilege.