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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
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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: WTF Bites
@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
20 Years in the Making, GnuCOBOL
Naive question, but why did that take so long?
I mean, it was a high level language half a century ago, but still primitive compared to modern languages. They already have an advanced compiler backend and infrastructure to handle much more complex languages, and lots of experience. How hard could it be to make a front-end for this ancient crap, considering it was doable back then? -
RE: The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread
@DogsB said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
you were wearing a silk scarf.
Don’t take mullet advice from someone who looks like that.
This was a canned response. Guess I didn’t anticipate a flattering reply.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@Carnage said in I, ChatGPT:
So the failure of object permanence is in the shim not gpt.
I wouldn’t say that, the gpt is still failing at it. But without reading the article (), this does sound more like playing doom by telephone than playing doom.
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RE: Right to repair sold to the highest bidder
@boomzilla this story misses the absolutely critical part of the third party repair that got crushed
(Amazing jorb, wired home page. Pop up some bullshit about subscription halfway across the screen, I dismiss. Scroll , get the same popup again. Dismiss, repeat 3 times: well, looks like you’ve already read 3 of our stories for free, it’s subscription time now. Pops up another thing full screen that can’t be dismissed.)
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RE: The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread
@DogsB what did I look like?
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
naked geese
I don't want to know why you think they're naked, but you're not wrong to be concerned.
something something recent events...