Christian Schaller, a Red Hat engineering director and longtime GNOME and Fedora contributor, had a box of old family negatives to digitize and a scanner that wouldn’t talk to Linux. He’d bought the Plustek OpticFilm 8200i because it was listed as supported, then discovered that the manufacturer had swapped in a chipset no Linux driver recognized. He tried getting Claude Code to produce a working driver and got nowhere for a long time, so he eventually set the project aside for a few months. When he returned to the project, Schaller tried a different approach. Within hours, he had his first...

Source: The New Stack