God bless all those monks who decided to keep English writing clean.
If you ignore accents, some words can be mistaken for other words (with different accents), but if you check the context, the problem quickly go away.
Accents are just useful to help you pronounce correctly words ; they are also a hint about the word's origin (ex: ^ means the words is greek) ; I don't get why it stopped you from learning the language.
Gimp can't handle them?
As I understand it, aluminum cans require a plastic lining. How is that one solved?
It does not prevent people from throwing them, but since you get money from them, homeless people usually gather them to make some money.
I'm not going to link to a specific one implying I'm recommending it, but a web search will show multiple.
One important gimp note is if you don't have 3.0+ already, get it. It finally has non-destructive editing, which is the main reason I had to keep using ps for for a long time.
>It finally has non-destructive editing
not for the fonts unfortunately, if you resize a text with the scale tool, it gets rasterized
A while ago I bought a bw laser printer from a brand I've never heard of: "Pantum". Specifically the Pantum P2500W, for 49,95€ (~ 53$). I have never seen them in a store in (western/central) Europe either.
It does not have a display, in general it's the simplest, minimalist printer I've ever owned I'd argue.
CUPS configuration exist in the Arch AUR (for usage with USB), and driverless printing with AirPrint (which also works with CUPS) is supported. This new driverless stuff works really nice in general, glad to use this instead of unreliable driver printers (which sometimes are not even available in low quality for Linux).
It does not require an internet connection and appears to not have any DRM on the cartridges: I use a 20€ (~ 21$) no-name toner cartridge from Amazon, and it works perfectly fine. In fact it doesn't have a display to complain about this (like my 10+ year old HP, which even back then showed me ads for their own cartridges, and HP paper).
I have some questions: - what model did you buy for 50€ ? was it second hand? (i only see 150+€ pantum laser printers) - any links to buy the printer/cartridge ; i'm super interested!
and don't stop on the price ; this pen is amazing,
it's actually one of the recommended tool, used by the super talented and proefficient korean drawing artist Kim Jung Gi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmqFbgKWoao (not sure he uses it in this video) ; Kim is known to be able to draw anything from memory
you can see him drawing with the BIC pen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30_IDH1TzFs&t=1231s (video: Kim Jung Gi - What Kind of Pen Do You Use?)