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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: In other news today...
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
What did all the dumb fucks involved - on both sides! - thought was going to happen?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
No thanks, today I think I'll just do everything slowly.
That actually was what the button did. Slowed it down to like half the clock speed.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@Zerosquare things that remind you of hardware.
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RE: Facebook Messenger × EU = Stupidity²
E: goddamnit, I basically posted this before.
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RE: In other news today...
Xitter post @cvi linked to said in In other news today...:
We’re still learning what is best for PC players
I can't even express how fucking ridiculous that is. Amazing Newspeak.
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RE: Hacking News
I didn’t really read / understand that article too well . What’s going on, something about outsiders getting access by triggering password reset emails? How does that work?
And why is everybody now arguing against hosting your shit on premises instead of
somebody-else’s-computerThe Cloud all of a sudden, as if on-prem wasn’t the much more reasonable option? -
RE: In other news today...
@ixvedeusi ah yes, I didn’t even think of that. Even assuming you’d understand them, it’d take an hour to read.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@Benjamin-Hall there’s fun evil and there’s bad evil. You’re comparing The Joker to HP, and you don’t want to be the latter.
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RE: In other news today...
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
(You just have to go through your long-ass list of throw-away mail providers to find one that’s not blacklisted.)
Or, hear me out here, just have one hotmail account that you use for all the throwaway stuff.
No, I have a mail account for pseudonymous stuff besides my real-name account. But if I use that for too much throwaway stuff, it allows them to aggregate too much garbage. The point is both to not care about mails and not allow any sort of connection between different throwaway things.
You literally cannot distrust the tech industry enough.