Hello, On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 10:59:45AM -0400, Lee wrote: > I taking a class at the local library; my laptop has avahi and cups > ports open .. which I'm not thrilled about but I like the zero-conf > printing ability.
If you sudo systemctl disable cups # and maybe others then, you can do sudo systemctl start cups whenever you require cups (and stop it afterwards). I rarely print documents nowadays. You could also install a local firewall, but the goal with CUPS is presumably to let it talk to other systems.
