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Never really got the hate for printers. Inkjets suck, sure, but especially B/W lasers are pretty drat solid and never gave me issues. I had KonicaMinolta and Samsung printers myself and mainly HP stuff at work.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Printers are such terrible pieces of poo poo. I have a color laser, a b&w laser, and an inkjet and there have been situations where all three have refused to print at the same time. It’s the one technology that hasn’t gotten more reliable over the years.
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Sep 1, 2017 17:30
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mobby_6kl posted:Never really got the hate for printers. Inkjets suck, sure, but especially B/W lasers are pretty drat solid and never gave me issues. I had KonicaMinolta and Samsung printers myself and mainly HP stuff at work. Same, read the theory of operation from any early HP LaserJet manual and be amazed that any of this poo poo works at all.
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Sep 1, 2017 17:31
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Kyocera FS-1020D supremacy. B/W laser, super inexpensive toner carts that last forever, drat good network support and drivers for just about every OS ever made. All of the 2000s enterprise protocols you could ask for. Also, I got it for free 
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Sep 1, 2017 17:50
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Jerry Cotton posted:So how the gently caress have you never come across a mid-90s Canon LASER printer When I was in college, the best labs to go work on papers were the small labs in the math and teacher's buildings that had Mac Classics and a Cannon printer because they were rock reliable. On the subject of TI-99/4A, my parents bought one of the original stainless versions in 81 or 82 with the speech synthesizer add on. My parents would buy magazines and type out pages and pages of code for games and record them to tape. I remember thinking it was awesome I could type out this program that made R2-D2 sounds. Best games though, were Parsec and Tunnels of Doom. Friends would stay over on Friday and we'd load Tunnels of Doom from cassette and go battle monsters. Then, one day I found out my parents took the whole thing to Goodwill. Someone got an excellent TI in a big plastic case filled with a bazillion cartridges for probably next to nothing.
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Sep 1, 2017 18:45
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It's kind of hard to believe the iPod is an obsolete piece of tech, but does anyone remember some really douchey article written shortly after the iPod started getting big, from the perspective of an upper middle class boomer that was appalled some attractive 20s jogger ran up to him, noticed the ipod buds, and then jacked him in to her workput mix (simultaneously jacking in to his ipod)? I remember it reading like some weird techy kids these days panic article and with a dash of stdh.txt
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Sep 1, 2017 20:05
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FilthyImp posted:It's kind of hard to believe the iPod is an obsolete piece of tech, but does anyone remember some really douchey article written shortly after the iPod started getting big, from the perspective of an upper middle class boomer that was appalled some attractive 20s jogger ran up to him, noticed the ipod buds, and then jacked him in to her workput mix (simultaneously jacking in to his ipod)? That was a thing very briefly because (I think) the first-gen iPod didn’t automatically shut off music playing when the headphones were disconnected.
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Sep 1, 2017 20:14
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FilthyImp posted:It's kind of hard to believe the iPod is an obsolete piece of tech, but does anyone remember some really douchey article written shortly after the iPod started getting big, from the perspective of an upper middle class boomer that was appalled some attractive 20s jogger ran up to him, noticed the ipod buds, and then jacked him in to her workput mix (simultaneously jacking in to his ipod)? The amount of action that takes to accomplish makes me wonder how he couldn't have stopped her.
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Sep 1, 2017 20:26
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[quote="“Wacky Delly”" post="“475976104”"] The amount of action that takes to accomplish makes me wonder how he couldn’t have stopped her. [/quote] He was frozen, jaw agape for minutes.
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Sep 1, 2017 20:33
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Wasabi the J posted:Hahaha gently caress. Reminds me of this one dude who accidentally emailed the entire US Army org box in the "to" field. I may have posted about this before but I was in Guantanamo when that happened in PAO and literally our entire sever got filled with GIGABYTES of those email responses, 100% HDD usage. We had a direct satellite link to DVIDS that was our only external communication line and it shut us down for days because people kept responding.
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Sep 1, 2017 21:40
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I would 100% absolutely not own a printer if they didn't come in really handy for the few times a year when you really do have to get something onto paper or copy some document. As it is I'm desperately trying to think of an out of the way place to put it to free up some shelf space, but in addition to being a massive pain in the rear end in every way, it's also bloody massive and can only go on the one specific shelf in my room that would be ideal for some audio stuff.
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Sep 1, 2017 21:49
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LaserJet 4+ is my favorite printer ever. all printers are evil and bad, this is just the least evil and bad Built like a tank. Replace the rollers every 250,000 pages or so and it'll probably outlast you.
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Sep 1, 2017 21:52
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nullfunction posted:LaserJet 4+ is my favorite printer ever. all printers are evil and bad, this is just the least evil and bad Seeing this immediately brought back memories of school computer labs and the aroma of freshly printed homework. 
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Sep 1, 2017 22:25
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nullfunction posted:LaserJet 4+ is my favorite printer ever. all printers are evil and bad, this is just the least evil and bad  Fun With C# and HP Laserjets
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Sep 1, 2017 22:30
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FilthyImp posted:It's kind of hard to believe the iPod is an obsolete piece of tech, but does anyone remember some really douchey article written shortly after the iPod started getting big, from the perspective of an upper middle class boomer that was appalled some attractive 20s jogger ran up to him, noticed the ipod buds, and then jacked him in to her workput mix (simultaneously jacking in to his ipod)? I only remember that when the iPod was new the white buds were unique and highly noticeable, and muggers were using them to target people both for their expensive music device and because they were more likely to have cash. Requests were made for the iPod to ship with different colours of bud to make them less noticeable. Arch-oval office Steve Jobs replied that iPod users would rather be mugged than not be seen to be wearing their shiny Apple toy.
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Sep 1, 2017 22:37
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Humphreys posted:On USB, I remember a time when USB was first being touted as the next best thing. An anecdote I read multiple times was 'no more driver discs, no configuring, the device tells the computer what it is and how it works' - such a simpler time haha. To be fair that's mostly true... except for printers.
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Sep 1, 2017 23:56
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My LaserJet 2100TN is still running strong since 1999. That printer is a beast.
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Sep 2, 2017 00:53
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Lowen SoDium posted:Brother B/W laser printers are pretty decent and reasonably cheap. A friend of mine's mother had problems with her inkjet causing her problems, not recognizing that we'd just bought new toner cartridges, etc. So I just told her to buy a Brother laser. It solved all her problems.
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Sep 2, 2017 00:57
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Jedit posted:I only remember that when the iPod was new the white buds were unique and highly noticeable, and muggers were using them to target people both for their expensive music device and because they were more likely to have cash. Requests were made for the iPod to ship with different colours of bud to make them less noticeable. Arch-oval office Steve Jobs replied that iPod users would rather be mugged than not be seen to be wearing their shiny Apple toy. And they deserved it. Those earbuds were terrible. I saw one of these yesterday:  It's a car stereo where you place your iPod on a little slide out tray and the radio ingests it.
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Sep 2, 2017 01:49
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My problem with printers is I print stuff so infrequently that whenever I need to print something I'm out of ink. Like clockwork.
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Sep 2, 2017 02:00
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TTTOOONNNEEERRRR PPPPRRRRIIINNNTTTEEERRRRRR
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Sep 2, 2017 02:24
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Horace posted:And they deserved it. Those earbuds were terrible. drat 2001-2012 Mango would have love love loved that. My current car can't play CDs and has a single USB port that works occasionally. And no replaceable head unit.
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Sep 2, 2017 02:31
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Horace posted:And they deserved it. Those earbuds were terrible. "Driver complained that the car's iPhone dock isn't working and was scratching his phone" https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemcneal/iphone-cassette-player?utm_term=.pjyJv4YEJ#.pr8wOV6ow
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Sep 2, 2017 02:57
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Horace posted:And they deserved it. Those earbuds were terrible. I wish I'd have known about that back in the day, would have been slick. I just wish aftermarket car stereos - or at least some of them - didn't look like Tokyo at night and had knobs and buttons which made sense, rather than endless blinking lights and minuscule buttons of uncertain function.
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Sep 2, 2017 03:41
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Ultimate Mango posted:drat 2001-2012 Mango would have love love loved that. My current car can't play CDs and has a single USB port that works occasionally. And no replaceable head unit. There are cheap Chinese products that retrofit audio/USB/iPod interfaces for almost any make of car and radio. Google "car audio link" or similar.
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Sep 2, 2017 09:20
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JnnyThndrs posted:I wish I'd have known about that back in the day, would have been slick. I just wish aftermarket car stereos - or at least some of them - didn't look like Tokyo at night and had knobs and buttons which made sense, rather than endless blinking lights and minuscule buttons of uncertain function. My grandma just bought a Jeep and instead of knobs and buttons it has this touchscreen that's difficult to operate while stationary and impossible to use safely while driving. Who the hell thought that was a good idea? I swear to god I'll be buying '90s-early 2000s cars until it's impossible to find one that works for less than a million.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:My grandma just bought a Jeep and instead of knobs and buttons it has this touchscreen that's difficult to operate while stationary and impossible to use safely while driving. Who the hell thought that was a good idea? I swear to god I'll be buying '90s-early 2000s cars until it's impossible to find one that works for less than a million. I had a 1999 Japanese market Nissan that had nav and air cond on a resistive touchscreen (funnily enough with a separate stereo) and it was even more awful than modern systems.
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Dick Trauma posted:The Laserjet
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Re: printerchat, I have a pretty new Samsung B/W laser printer/scanner/copier thing and it works perfectly fine.  Seriously, it's literally just plug in and print or scan, Windows seems to handle the drivers by itself and everything.
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Sep 2, 2017 14:43
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Ultimate Mango posted:drat 2001-2012 Mango would have love love loved that. My current car can't play CDs and has a single USB port that works occasionally. And no replaceable head unit. The problem with that stereo is that it’s extremely difficult to navigate through a decent size music library through the interface. I had an old pioneer years ago that had an iPod interface like that one (without the whole eating my iPod thing) and usually I would use the iPod itself to find what I wanted to listen to because the click wheel and iPod screen were much easier to deal with than the crappy stereo screen.
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Sep 2, 2017 14:56
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Android Auto and Apple Carplay are easily the best available options for car interfaces right now.
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Wasabi the J posted:Android Auto and Apple Carplay are easily the best available options for car interfaces right now. My new Accord has CarPlay and it's really good about being able to do whatever with only voice commands and using the familiar Apple apps. Plus it's nice not being locked into(and paying for) a proprietary nav system that will become obsolete and un-updateable in the near future.
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Sep 2, 2017 15:17
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I just put a Pioneer head unit with CarPlay in my truck, and it's fantastic. Plus, since Pioneer has its own version of CarPlay called AppRadio, I can use Waze instead of Apple Maps (AppRadio kinda blows outside of that, tho).
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Sep 2, 2017 16:17
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Grand Prize Winner posted:My grandma just bought a Jeep and instead of knobs and buttons it has this touchscreen that's difficult to operate while stationary and impossible to use safely while driving. Chevrolet realized this was dumb as gently caress and their post 2015 or so line of cars has a volume knob. Their worst offender was the Volt, where everything was a goddamn touch sensitive surface on molded plastic. I fear for the Model 3 and its giant ipad UI.
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Knobs are definitely superior, but the one on my last stereo wore out and stopped letting me turn the volume up, so for the past two years I've had to use the lovely little remote that came with the stereo to adjust the volume, which really sucked when I would drop the remote between the seats during a long car ride. Actually, now that I think about it, of all of the car stereos I've owned that had a volume knob (and I've had over 20 stereos since 1996) , only one (Pioneer) had a volume knob that didn't eventually wear out. It's one of the reasons I've decided to stick with Pioneer when it comes to car stereo decks. I've never had a single hardware issue with any of them.
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The Android Auto/capacitive touchscreen dashboard were part of the next package up on my car, and it was the only thing in that package I cared about, but not enough to drop $2,300 extra. The resistive touchscreen interface is a bit clunky, but it gets the job done. But now that Waze is coming to Android Auto, if I had it I wouldn't even need the annoying vent-mount phone holder 
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Ultimate Mango posted:drat 2001-2012 Mango would have love love loved that. My current car can't play CDs and has a single USB port that works occasionally. And no replaceable head unit. Do you have an AUX port? If you have a USB port, then you probably do, and can use that. If not, just buy one of the short-range MP3-to-radio broadcasters, since I guarantee you have a radio.
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Sep 2, 2017 17:45
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I got in poo poo at work once because I changed the 4050 on the sales floor to say "INSERT 25 CENTS" and one of the salesdroids put a quarter in the cooling vent then complained to management the printer stole his quarter.
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Sep 2, 2017 18:09
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I've been using the same head unit to play MP3 CDs for more than a decade. Sorta looking for one that has a SD slot or USB on the rear so I can just load everything on it. I do not put MP3s on my phone.
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Normal car gps units are pretty obsolete now it seems, my old unit is getting crash prone and laggy and i cant update the maps without paying a shitload so I looked for a replacement and the prices were insanely high compared with the function offered for essentially free on google maps. Guess I will use my phone, but i liked having something that i could plug in, stick to the windscreen and have a map with no fuss or distractions.
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