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Harder than getting printers to print?
by Maken 2y ago
Harder than getting printers to print?
- mschuster91 2y agoAt least printers give you some sort of error message. EDID negotiation or signal integrity issues in HDMI, good luck diagnosing actual causes without highly specialized (and expensive...) equipment.
- npongratz 2y ago> At least printers give you some sort of error message. Inscrutable, and infamous, though they may be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_LOAD_LETTER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_LOAD_LETTER
- trustno2 2y agoHey that's what we get CUPS auto-discovery for.
- Propelloni 2y agoGood one!
- high_na_euv 2y agoIt is unreal how tech as mature as printers is so fucking unreliable
- makeitdouble 2y agoArguably it still hasn't matured yet. Or at least it's nowhere near to be a solved problem and we'll probably sidestep it before ever coming up with a real solution. I'd put it in the same bucket as TODO lists. After centuries we're still not set.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoDepends on the printer. I still remember the LaserJet 4000 series with great fondness. They were absolute tanks that almost never broke. You did have to replace wear items like rollers, but that was it.
- eka1 2y agoTypically, you aren't trying to print in front of a large audience