• @RamblingPanda
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    416 hours ago

    The PSU is the only thing you can change easily. I love that everything is USB-C and that I can plug in everything, everywhere.

    But I’m kind of happy everyone uses handhelds, I got really tired fixing everything for my entire family and friends.

    “My printer seems to be defectiv…”

    Entschuldige, ich kann kein Englisch. Muss weg, keine Zeit. Bye!

    • Sam, The Man
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      256 hours ago

      I work in Tech and this is my mantra: printers are Of the Devil.

      • @[email protected]
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        145 hours ago

        My buddy worked tech support for a fairly large facility. They got tired of getting calls for a busted printer, only to walk all the way across the facility to discover it was out of paper. It got to the point that if someone called about a printer, they would wait an hour before responding. If nobody else called within that hour, they assumed the issue was resolved on its own.

      • RobotsLeftHand
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        35 hours ago

        In healthcare IT there’s often a person who specializes in just printers. My friend makes a lot of money doing that.

      • @RamblingPanda
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        76 hours ago

        I’m sure they got to us because they were too evil for hell and the devil itself got tired of them.

        • @[email protected]
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          The part that royally pisses me off is that a roommate used to work for Lexmark. One day he brings home an “all in one” printer, fax, scanner, and something else I am forgetting. Best scanner I have ever seen. No light bar. The thing worked by taking four pictures and digitally meshing them together. When you scanned a document, there was a series of 4 rapid flashes. One Magenta, one Cyan, one Yellow, one White.

          The damn thing was absolutely perfect at digitizing anything you put onto the unit’s scanning glass, but it did have a design issue where the scanning glass wasn’t parallel to the floor, and was instead tilted like a desktop picture frame.

          According to my roommate, that particular design flaw is why they decided to kill the printer, never releasing it to the public. AFAIK they never even tried that scanning tech in any other printer.

    • @[email protected]
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      65 hours ago

      It’s like all the old geezers who cum into carbeurators but like, shouldn’t they be happy that fuel-injection is a million times better and more reliable? I work on my own car and I can handle that shit in my driveway easy but these people seem to want more work to do. Yes, Fred, carbs make more sense for dirtbikes but oh my god otherwise shut up.

      As for printers yea what the fuck. They all work differently even within the same company when all they need to do is take the exact same control module, maybe two versions of it, and slap it onto different bodies. But, instead, it’s just a giant fucking mess.