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Also Gen X. I deal with printers all the time. Still use my checkbook, too.
Printers never gave me as much trouble as other people report - but then, I stick to good brands, or at least brands I know; I spent several years writing printer drivers for a specific OEM, so I've been familiar enough with their inner workings that I've had little trouble dealing with them.
The good old xerox switcheroo.
Yeah, just like the rest of us. Lol.
I highly recommend it
I’m currently dipping my toes into writing gnome extensions, so I’m no stranger to tormenting myself needlessly, lol
But writing printer drivers? That’s just creating your own hell.
No way. My drivers just worked. Graceful error handling, full resume functionality, hand-crafted color profiles.
It helps when you have full control over the OS framework as well.
I have a brother laser printer. I normally love the thing, but yesterday it printed out two separate documents on the same sheet of paper (front/back). One was a document that refused to print a few days ago. I still have no idea how TF that happened
- former SWE
Most impressive.
It knew you were retired. Never let them have that advantage. Fear will keep them in line.