@cas Is Anthony Towns currently working for Red Hat (if you know)?

@FaheemMitha, dunno.

@cas Ok

@FaheemMitha: You mean this guy linkedin.com/in/ajtowns

according to his linkedin page, he worked there from March 2011 – July 2014 (3 years 5 months)

@cuonglm @cas Yes, I see. Thanks. I wonder what he is doing now.

anyway, gotta go. it's that time of the night again.

Take care, @cas.

@cas Alan Kennington is from your part of the world. Melbourne, in fact. Nice guy. I've corresponded with him sporadically in the last 15 years.

And now on SE, as you can see.

It's really annoying how bad Linux support from major manufacturers still remains. I was considering buying the Canon DR-C125 scanner, but the Linux driver support, though mentioned everywhere, is a bad joke.

Somebody wrote something in 2011, but Canon makes very clear they don't support it in any way.

Is the question "Recommend a good scanner with good Linux support" on-topic anywhere in SE?

@FaheemMitha maybe hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com ?

@JeffSchaller Oh, did that start?

Thanks, the existence of that site escaped my attention.

wasn't expecting this. nexus 7 just got an update to android M

@casey Is that notable?

not entirely considering it is a nexus, but somewhat since it is a 2013 variant of a discontinued product and M has been released on the order of days

@casey I see.

it took longer for this device to get the lollipop update

I always wonder if these updates are safe. I don't think I'll try it on my phone.

Hello?

@Linuxoid Hello.

@FaheemMitha that tablet seems much more responsive after the update. That has more to do probably with the subpar 5.1 update it got last time... but I'm happy with it

@casey I'd be paranoid about breaking my phone. Possibly an unjustified fear.

Question for people who work with build systems. If you use autotools, do you just assume that you will never try to get the software to run on Windows?