• dmention7@midwest.social
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    6 days ago

    Meanwhile, an ancient Brother wifi laser printer that I haven’t used in 3 years and frankly forgot I had, moments after I clicked on it instead of “print to pdf”: whirrs to life 3 seconds later and prints a perfect smudge-free copy

    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      I just looked at a Brother laser. Every new customer says not to buy it, because even though it’s being sold, it’s not supported anymore and it’s impossible to download a functional driver.

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        because even though it’s being sold, it’s not supported anymore and it’s impossible to download a functional driver.

        LOL

        I would buy such a printer with zero worry and never even consider trying to download a driver. Instead, I’d just use the one my OS comes with (or select the one for the next most similar model from the driver list if, for some reason, it doesn’t have the exact one and it’ll probably still work just fine).

      • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
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        5 days ago

        I bought a Canon a year or two ago. Laserjet with the scanner. Don’t even have a desktop. Just use it through my phone. Works flawlessly, every time so far.

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    6 days ago

    Go back in time to the 90s to tell your kid self who’s waiting for boobs to load on dial up: “I’m you from 2026 and it will still take 10 to 15 minutes to load up your mom’s computer to print a single document! Why? Because Microsoft is shit. Also buy bitcoin and Google stock”

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      6 days ago

      You have to specify when to sell the bitcoin. I lost my hard drive containing a few of them but I’m sure I would have gotten a pizza or some stuff from compusa when they started accepting them

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    6 days ago

    I like the noises. At least you know it’s doing something and you don’t have to troubleshoot some print server.

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      5 days ago

      I never got why this was hard to understand to him. Load letter paper into the paper cassette.