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The scanner that was never broken

pacman -Qq | grep -iE 'sane|scan' returned exactly one package: hyprwayland-scanner, which is a Hyprland build tool and nothing to do with scanners. That was the whole diagnosis. The scan half of my HP OfficeJet Pro 8710 had never worked from this machine, I’d assumed that meant a driver I hadn’t installed, and the truth was that nothing at all had ever been installed to talk to it. The printer’s side had been ready the entire time. Its IPP record advertises Scan=T and mopria-certified=1.3, and http://192.168.1.3/eSCL/ScannerCapabilities answers 200 with eSCL 2.5, offering the flatbed, the document feeder, and duplex. It had been offering for as long as it had been on the network. Nobody was listening.

Sunday, August 30, 2026 | 5 minutes Read
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The 144 Hz monitor that preferred 60

hyprctl monitors said [email protected]. hyprctl monitors all listed 143.86Hz, 119.88Hz and 69.92Hz as available on the same output. An HP 27xq on DisplayPort, a 144 Hz panel, running at 60 because that is what it had been asked for. This is the trap I owed a post to when I wrote about where the distro hopping stopped; it turned out to have two more acts. Here is the line that asked for it, as Omarchy shipped it in ~/.config/hypr/monitors.lua:

Friday, August 28, 2026 | 7 minutes Read
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Where the distro hopping stopped

I’ve been distro hopping for a while now. Ubuntu first, because that’s where everyone starts. Zorin when I wanted it to look nicer. CachyOS when I wanted it to go faster. And now Omarchy. Two days in - the fastfetch below still shows an OS age you can count on one finger - and I’m calling it early: this is where the hopping stops. Wallpaper: Solace by thaomaoh

Monday, August 24, 2026 | 4 minutes Read
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Installing Hugo on WSL

If you develop on Windows but want a Linux toolchain, Hugo runs happily under WSL. Here is the quick version, plus the one gotcha worth knowing. The quick way (often out of date) Update your package list and install from apt: sudo apt update sudo apt install hugo This works, but Ubuntu and Debian package a version of Hugo that usually lags well behind the current release. Themes move quickly, and plenty of them need a newer Hugo than apt will give you. If a theme’s build complains about your Hugo version, this is why.

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | 1 minute Read