Best posts made by topspin
-
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.
-
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.
-
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
-
RE: The Official Status Thread
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status I keep thinking some new fucker is stealing my schtick.
No idea who this guy is, but now all my posts using an alternate emoji look weird.
-
RE: Programming Memes Thread
we push on save
I’m sure this is real somewherethey lost trust in me after our fourth user data cleanup - this month
-
RE: The Official Status Thread
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
and tall poles for the athletic competitions
Friendship is Maciej
-
RE: The Official Status Thread
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
it seems to have decent hardware held back by absolute dogshit software.
Samsung has moved to China?
-
RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
Lighter fluid is dangerous, so that would be something for responsible adults only.
Bizarre travelling flame discovery – 14:34
— Steve MouldSounds like something for @Polygeekery’s offspring.
-
RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It parses the
0
prefix as octal, which is the only correct behaviourFrom a legacy perspective, yes.
Otherwise, ignoring "every language does it like that", the only correct behavior is: fuck octal, 010 == 10. Use the
0o
prefix if you have to, but don't fuck up human-readable numbers that clearly look decimal. Nobody needs octal except for the singular use case ofchmod
. -
RE: Pay peanuts or chicken feed
@BernieTheBernie said in Pay peanuts or chicken feed:
How many Indian "sofwtare specialists" would be willing to take software job abroad
The point isn't to pay foreigners a reasonable wage, no matter how the "Fachkräftemangel" talk makes you believe that. The point is to drive the price down with the alternatives of not paying well here or outsourcing because you "can't find anyone" here.