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hacktheegg

The ONE printer that I have, and arch doesn’t have a driver for it, WHY?!?

14 August at 22:23 | Wall-to-wall | Open on programming.dev
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primrosepathspeedrun

because printers are the most proprietary fedjacked snitchware that has ever existed.

open source DIY paper printers need to be a thing.

14 August at 22:29 | Open on lemmy.world
Artificial Stupidity

@primrosepathspeedrun I tried to convince Pine64 people to do printer next, they politely turned my down since this is almost impossible due all licensing

ps: but probably DIY crowd could ignore this

@lemmy.world @hacktheegg

15 August at 0:09 | Open on lor.sh
Григорий Клюшников

Artificial, licensing? What kind of licensing could one possibly need to build a machine that deposits ink onto paper? Printers have existed for way more than 20 years so surely all the important patents must have expired.

15 August at 4:14
Eugene :emacs: :freebsd:

@grishka @ABasilPlant @AncientGood I made a very little (re)search and found what all main components: #postscript , Printer Command Language ( #PCL ) and a bunch of ISO standards not a subject of licensing. I dunno, maybe this anti #privacy shit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_ — should be licensed 🤷‍♂️

18 August at 8:20 | Open on mas.to
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