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@Rasp okay. historical fantasy.
Home Printers of the last 20 years just seem to complain and break and not print, I don't think that's dependent on OS unless you screw with the printer itself
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 Like its also not an inkjet printer is a laser printer and most of the parts that are likely to wear out quickly are built into the massive toner cartridges by design specifically to avoid the kind of problems you get with an inkjet printer.  @wigglytuffitout @lapis Not all parts prone to failures are "planned obsolescence" delicate mechanisms prone to wear are sometimes necessary. I'd rather have user replaceable parts than a black box I need to buy a whole new one when any one component fails on me. @Rasp @lapis Yes dear, as I mentioned, sewing machines are following much the same trend and this is correlated strongly to additional features. It's why I wrote about how your jammy luck may be connected strongly to the relatively low technical demands the printers had to meet. If you want to actually read any of what I wrote instead of just deciding that you are the main character and everyone else needs to be proven wrong. Or wank off into the sunset. Your choice. @wigglytuffitout @lapis oh I know and it sucks. but thats why if I was going into the market for one that's one thing I'd look for. ...I'm not trying to do any of that? I'm not even disagreeing with the joke I'm just talking about some different experiences I've also had that were less negative? I never refuted the problem or the joke? I'm not sure where you got that. All I've done is talk about my laser printer that I really like and some better experiences of the old days before things went to hell. (okay they still sucked but not quite this bad) I'm not sure where you're getting the rest of this stuff from? It happened to me plenty back when I worked in IT and I never denied it happening to anyone else? I never said the joke was wrong the joke is dead on. I thought it was funny why I boosted it in the first place? |
@lapis @Rasp yeah the new modern printers often have no or minimal Linux support, along with intentionally anti-customer features like locking down if they detect you're using a cartridge not from the manufacturer directly (whether it be ink or toner) or if they need a driver update. The blessing of older printers working may be mostly because brother has simply stopped caring to support those models at all lol, and that the onboard basic drivers are enough to do all you need. For more complex operations that's not just one-sided black-and-white in-single-size, the type of support that drivers can give Linux machines especially often take a very steep nose dive (much less if it's a combination machine of printer, fax, document scanner etc). Individual models may sometimes end up okay, but yeah... It sounds like you got lucky there, and the luck is far from universal lol
@lapis @Rasp yeah the new modern printers often have no or minimal Linux support, along with intentionally anti-customer features like locking down if they detect you're using a cartridge not from the manufacturer directly (whether it be ink or toner) or if they need a driver update. The blessing of older printers working may be mostly because brother has simply stopped caring to support those models at all lol, and that the onboard basic drivers are enough to do all you need. For more complex operations...