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requiring a full blown VM (with a different OS) to implement a driver (normally that would work in ring-0 along with the original OS) is not pedantry.

for instance the 'windows' part is also entirely nonsensical as the printer works on a default mint installation w/o any issues. The "obscure" part is weird as you can just buy the printer online as well.

> A device driver is software that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer.[1] A driver provides a software interface to hardware devices, enabling other software to access hardware functions without needing to know precise details about the hardware.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_driver

Is using a VM running another operating system as part of a driver weird, yes. Is it still a driver? Also yes.

Since when is pointing out technical errors a sin on HN?

Since the influx of people who know basically nothing about anything made that part the majority and it became mostly business hype and pretense.

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