Isn’t bonjour the reason that devices like printers famously worked so much better on Mac than windows? I feel like I read an article about that like a decade or two ago.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Bonjour, i'm here to fuck shit up"

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Adieux!

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

TIL there's a plural of adieu

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My French grammar is perhaps not the best

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Lol all good. I took French in high school and was pretty sure their wasn't an x on the end, but I looked it up and it technically is correct in old French as far as I can tell. Perhaps someone who speaks proper French can chime in.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

no one? Ok

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Idk what all it does and doesn't do, but installing it in Windows lets you find your Raspberry Pi by its ".local" hostname. I know it was originally for printers or something.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago

It's for local service discovery. Those services may be printers on your network, or another computer sharing music on iTunes (which is why as a Windows user you'd usually get Bonjour when installing iTunes). Or maybe it's your Raspberry Pi.

It feels iffy because it comes bundled with other software without you being asked (IIRC) and it autoruns on startup. And I mean 20 years ago when iPods were a thing and people had to use iTunes on Windows, a couple dozen megabytes of RAM really mattered too. Hell I had 512 MB back when I had an iPod (and therefore iTunes)

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

All i figured out for certain is that it came bundled with itunes.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Would you have felt differently if it was called Rendezvous?

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Probably not. I know better then to trust the french /s

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

That was what caused duplicates on setting the printer as default on dad's PC. Just disable active scanning for new printers in the config. Was quite some detective work with examining the service file and recursively grepping /etc for variable names multiple times.