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John Siracusa | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 This might as well be my printer’s screensaver. With every firmware update, I hope that “this will be the one that fixes it!” Still hoping…

(It's an Epson ET-4850. At least it still prints…)

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91a0ea80 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @a6ff0b2b PC LOAD LETTER
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Dan White | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @a6ff0b2b I got tired of my printer constantly erroring out or being unresponsive so I plugged it into a smart plug and set up a routine to bounce it every morning at 4am.
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d431961c | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @a6ff0b2b 
My HP printer lets me know it has started printing by telling me the ink levels are low. (Where low means I can still print 200 more pages.)
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Ryan Steele :toque: | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @a6ff0b2b Do you tap “OK” or “Close”?
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c3f3d05f | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @a6ff0b2b I gave up on printers and feel at peace. 😉
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d431961c | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @a6ff0b2b 
All this madness culminates with them duping naive customers into installing objectively bad software.