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@quinn printers are bad people.
@gmarcosanti you're.... not wrong.
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@quinn i love that one because it's true. whenever someone says, "do you have ring?" i just laugh.
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An acquaintance of mine had what he called the Sony adjustment tool.
It was a sledgehammer kept in the corner of his computer room
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@quinn This comes from a 2017 Tumblr post.
Edit: Or at least that is where I first saw it! It could be older.
https://www.tumblr.com/notcaycepollard/167952829352/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired
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@quinn I find it somewhat ironic that this guy tweeted this in 2019 and since then became one of the biggest elon bootlickers on the internet
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@quinn Out of all the pieces of hardware to keep, this person kept their printer???
Those things are constantly trying to call home and rewire themselves to keep you from using unapproved ink. That's the official story of what they're doing anyway--who even knows if that's true. They're like the last thing I'd keep around. You can go to the library and use a printer. You probably have to anyway because you're out of ink. You just bought ink yesterday but you're out.
WTF with the printer?
@crazyeddie @quinn that's beyond the point. How — I ask — can you use a printer when that's the only piece of tech you have in your house?
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@crazyeddie @quinn that's beyond the point. How — I ask — can you use a printer when that's the only piece of tech you have in your house?
@Homempovo @crazyeddie what the hell are y'all taking about? It's a funny joke about tech experts vs tech enthusiasts, let it be funny
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@Homempovo @crazyeddie what the hell are y'all taking about? It's a funny joke about tech experts vs tech enthusiasts, let it be funny
@quinn @crazyeddie I know, I was just messing with him cause he missed the point of the joke and then missed the point of the objection as well lol
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@quinn Who among us hasn't wanted to shoot their printer at least once?
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@quinn i work on the cutting edge of technology. I stream music from black plastic discs by dragging a rock over its surface.
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@michaelgemar @quinn @lauren ugh, Heinlein.
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite
Pardon the train geekery...
I look both ways too, despite rail safety systems being rated for a dangerous failure of ≥ 10−9 to < 10−8 per hour.
https://www.intertechrail.com/understanding-sil-in-railway-systems
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@quinn @ianbetteridge I ridicule people who talk about their “smart” devices or “smart homes.”
“Cool! What are you planning to do when the company goes bankrupt or discontinues support for them?”
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We should all just stop creating things we probably will need to kill, and not start doing any more of them.
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@quinn@social.circl.lu
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@quinn I’ve heard some say to keep the gun well out of reach of the printer.
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@quinn Out of all the pieces of hardware to keep, this person kept their printer???
Those things are constantly trying to call home and rewire themselves to keep you from using unapproved ink. That's the official story of what they're doing anyway--who even knows if that's true. They're like the last thing I'd keep around. You can go to the library and use a printer. You probably have to anyway because you're out of ink. You just bought ink yesterday but you're out.
WTF with the printer?
Mechanically and physically, printing on paper is a solved problem. It has been for years. If it goes wrong, 9/10 the device itself has a mechanical fault. Updates do not improve a printer's performance more than it attempts to fix mistakes made in manufacture.
Get a Brother HL model, small paper toaster for $120 at an office store and maybe one replacement toner cart. Don't install shit. Windows and Mac will use it the moment you plug it in. Print, then unplug it. Same as a webcam if you aren't an influencer or creator, don't leave something you use 15-30% of the time plugged in constantly because it's easier. Put it away.
If it makes you feel better, buy a wheelie cart to roll it to wherever you want to print from. Do not network it. If it breaks, its cheap enough to replace eventually. Take it offline. Use a USB Cable. Before they lock out that use case next. You don't need updates on something that isn't on a network.
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@crazyeddie @farrisswisher i have no idea, just chatting, but do what makes you feel comfortable
@quinn @crazyeddie @farrisswisher amusingly, this post was in my feed right before I came across this thread: https://mastodon.social/@paulrickards/116586198540063644
