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Mechanical parts likely still work, does not need an ink subscription.


> Mechanical parts likely still work

Towards the end of this article, Ken says that the mechanical parts did not work:

"The printer had many mechanical problems, mainly because the rubber rollers had turned to liquid and gummed up the mechanism."


Now imagine a printer made of mostly plastic and a bunch of elastomers. Your subscription based Inkjet is not going to last even half as long.


I block .top and several other of the newer TLDs in SMTP. We get tons of spam from these TLDs, and we don't otherwise interact with those TLDs in our business.


I got my CNA in about '92. Really helped land my first full time job.


WordPerfect 5.x, running on DOS, is/was the best work processor ever. WordPerfect indeed.


that's my experience as well


https://imgur.com/6wbgy2L

"The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise."


And this is another lame "insightful" meme. I work with plenty of cybersecurity people and they have plenty of smart devices. They're the ones with Home Assistant setups and ESPHome flashable hardware on they're own internet isolated wifi.

Which is in fact a standard feature on many consumer routers now.

What we're missing is a "local only" directive from the EU to get manufacturers to play ball for the common man.


No way a printer in proximity to a shotgun (or window) last more than a few months.


Judges are appointed, not elected. Federal Judges receive lifetime appointments.

This decision takes power away from elected officials and hands the power to appointed officials, officials appointed for life.

Conservatives have played the long after to Roe to attempt to stack the courts with conservative judges. This is how we got to the Supreme Court that we have now.



If you like shrapnel.


Go ahead, delete what I cannot see and will not pay for.


Anyone run this through VirusTotal?


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