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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
Also, when I got the cyan cartridge out I could literally hear that there was still ink in it. So I tried to just put the same one in at first, but the printer wasn't to be fooled and firmly stated it's empty.
Well, this is how much blue ink I got to dribble out of the empty cartridge:
Printer manufactures are literally scum, somewhere below Goldman Sachs bankers and maybe slightly above African dictators.
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I hate printers, with a passion
On a family support call. Mom needs to print a two page text document but the printer doesn't work correctly. She prints something like once a year, so the stupid cartridges are always dried out.
Knowing this, I try to print the document and see what I expected, white stripes everywhere. So I go to the tool thingy and select the option to clean the printing heads. Back to the document and print again. I get this lovely dialog:Oh yes, of course it can't fucking print a black and white document anymore because the fucking CYAN is empty. (It's always cyan, isn't it?!)
And to add instult to injury:
- There's a huge FUCKING TEXTBOX that tells you to click there for offers to buy ink.
- A yellow button to buy ink
- A
buttonhyperlink styled button that says "print this window".
Ignoring for a second that this dialog is shown in the first place because it refuses to print a b/w document for lack of cyan, I am sure as hell not goint to print this obscenely colorful, dumb as fuck window just so I know the serial number for the cyan cartridge is "T0892". Are you fucking kidding me!?
I don't even need cyan ink, it's only empty because of their fucking head cleaning utility, and now you want me to waste even more of it to print this asshole of a window.I put in a replacement cartridge of cyan ink and print the document. It's still got some stripes in it, even though fewer this time. Another round of printer head cleaning and I can finally print the document in acceptable condition. Of course now the cyan is (from what it seems like by this informative image) back to 80% and yellow is getting dangerously close to being empty. So I bet it'll pull the same stunt next time there's anything to print.
The real solution here would of course be a copy shop and pay 20 cents, but there's no such thing in this little village within any reasonable distance.
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RE: "Le mobile multifonction"
In German the situation is reversed.
We love using English words so much (because it sounds modern?) that we come up with stupid English phrases for everything. Or let's say the ad industry and a few other idiots do, to the point that most old people have no idea what these ads are trying to say, even if it's ads targeted at them.The "German" word for mobile phone is "Mobiltelefon", but instead we use the term "Handy", because we thinks that's the English word for it. Most English speakers are quite surprised if you want to give them a handy.
Latest posts made by topspin
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RE: (are (arguments for (using lisp)) (still valid?))
@Zecc said in (are (arguments for (using lisp)) (still valid?)):
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The face I made reading this code.
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RE: In other news today...
How Facebook Intercepts Your Web Traffic – 08:53
— Mental Outlaw$90 million fine
If I did that, I’d get 90 million years in prison.
Also, it’s always been my assumption that all VPNs do this. No idea why everybody is running ads for them and praising MITM-as-a-service as a security tool.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
Vultr Claims Rights to Sell Your Data & Programs? – [06:22..09:32] 09:32
— Louis RossmannThat’s actually a pretty good idea.
I still think that the status quo of having to agree to hundred page long EULAs, T&Cs, contracts that literally nobody reads and wouldn’t understand without a law degree anyway is fundamentally untenable. This must change, but I have no hope that it will change. So besides publicly shaming and boycotting companies for hiding user hostile shit in there (which is limited in effectiveness by everyone adopting the same disgusting practices), this might help create awareness.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@DogsB I’ve read the summary twice and I’m more confused than ever.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Getting my eyes lasered this Friday.
Aren’t you already getting a bit too old for that?
Just genuinely curious, cause at some point you’re getting presbyopia on top of nearsightedness. I’ve contemplated it, but that along with people telling me “it’s great, you just get a little bit dry eyes and light sensitive at night” had me skeptical.Also, you’re like 5 days older than me, so I’m allowed to say that.
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RE: (are (arguments for (using lisp)) (still valid?))
@Bulb said in (are (arguments for (using lisp)) (still valid?)):
Silly joking advertisement for Simula: Are you missing a blast furnace? In Simula you simply write
new BlastFurnace()
and you have blast furnace.How does that make sense or is funny?