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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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[–] Toes@ani.social 34 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 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.

[–] Toes@ani.social 3 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 14 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.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 points 11 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.