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My dearest Lemmy, what is the appliance you have the most beef with? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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The appliance that elicits anger and frustrated at it's mere sight. The treacherous device that never worked right.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

I really cannot believe we fucked printers in so many unique ways.

No universal drivers and software support, requiring entire settings pages to be about printers
DRM everywhere, rendering third party cartridges useless
Routinely bad security, making Wi-Fi enabled printers one of the common attack vectors

Etc. etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

HpLJ4 was a wonderful beast.

Having said that, "print drivers" need to be "I'm gonna blow a PDF onto your port 9100 and you better make the things go on the goddamned paper or you fail and it's the wood chipper for you". I'm tired of everything else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

My favourite bad security thing about them is that it's possible to hack them with a fake fax.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

In grad school I picked up a an old free HP LaserJet, with an Ethernet NIC card (it was an upgradable printer, maybe from the mid 2000s?).

It was great! Only complaint was no duplexer, but the thing printed great from Linux and the generic toner was cheap.

Today though...the experience is a bit different.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Yeah I got an HP laser MFC with like 3 new carts 10 years ago. NIC and Duplex. Going to have it for at least 10 more years or brother when it dies.