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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: In other news today...
@Tsaukpaetra it is the “final destination”, as far as HDCP is concerned. It goes from your Blu-ray player or whatever to your TV. The path from the TV to your eyes doesn’t have HDCP.
Edit: maybe I’m misunderstanding. My assumption is that whatever Roku does happens in the TV, not some set-top-box outside of it.
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RE: Nope, you eat it
@Jaime said in Nope, you eat it:
@Arantor said in Nope, you eat it:
Just seen an influencer try to sell a bottle of hydrogenated water because water isn’t hydrated.
A simple way to hydrogenate water is to add hydrogen chloride to it.
For added health benefits, combine it with sodium hydroxide. That gives you twice the hydrogenation and makes the taste deliciously rocky.
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RE: In other news today...
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
possibly customized by sniffing the content of the video data.
If it means that they'll be allowed to break HDCP I might possibly consider allowing it for the side effects.
It’s not “breaking” HDCP. It’s the TV, it’s the receiving end which is doing the decrypting anyway.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@boomzilla I’m going to absolutely ruin several people’s days by forwarding this.
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RE: In other news today...
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
advertising is generally unethical.
See my post about Roku.
Yes, I’ve seen that. And it’s extremely shitty behavior that I’d definitely not accept.
But it’s still not at bad as your bank selling all your private information. -
RE: Scientific Science
@DogsB's article said in Scientific Science:
The Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli, one of the strongest of Einstein’s critics, had himself long been a fascinated adept of Jungian psychoanalysis. He acquired more grievances to analyse when “his wife, a former cabaret dancer, went off with a chemist, and not a very good one”.
Primarily complaining that the new guy isn't a good scientist. Things that remind you of WTDWTF members ...
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RE: Scientific Science
@DogsB fucking stupid website. You can read it if you click on reader mode immediately. Otherwise, if you try to read it normally, it'll show some dumb popup and then reader mode doesn't work anymore.
Websites really go out of their way to be shit now, but I guess you need that Google traffic somehow. -
RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Spying on you"telemetry"The best part is that, in this case apparently, you're paying through the nose for this spying in Azure bills.