The Lounge 0001 [From the Beginning]

When a printer that has mechanical parts, optical scanners, fancy software, etc costs more than black ink that has scam written all over it that the ISS can see it.

I have a printer from 2002(?) that ive had for SEVERAL years. Its been with me through 4 houses, my car, and now a global pandemic. I refuse to get rid of it because its so old that its beyond easy to use aftermarket ink in it. iirc it would have been about $50 USD for both B&W and color ink plus the supplies needed to refill it. Oh and that is for 8 entire refills.

Fuck printers. May they die a slow and painful death and we move towards the much more clear and economically sustainable option of e-documents

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Dito. I think we got it during Vista, or even XP.
HP Photosmart C3170.
It has it’s quirks and the expensive ink is infuriating. But even on Win8.1 it still works.
What’s annoying is, is that every single time you turn it on it wants to print a test page. No idea why. I always have to have my finger ready on the cancel button and hammer on it as soon as it pulls in the paper.
And it was a royal pain in the ass to set up on Win8.1. And then it suddenly worked. Like, what the hell did I even do to make it work now? I did the same thing as the other 5 times before.

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HPs software team are both incompetent and geniuses at the same time. We have an HP Envy 5535 and it has terrible support on Windows. Its a wireless printer and 99% of the time their Windows software can’t detect it at all you have to reboot the printer but using hplip drivers on Linux it works flawlessly all the time that I keep getting asked to print shit for people because I have the only computer that it reliably works with.

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That’s a weird one. Usually it’s linux where you have to fiddle with shit to get it to work or it doesn’t support all features.

An ink-less printer would be dope but thermopaper has too many downsides, like being sensitive to heat and you have to be careful with liquids like hand-sanitizer around it. Guess what the Red Cross used to replace the standard forms in the cars with, a place that gets really got during summer and where people use hand-sanitizer all the time.

HPs great printer support on Linux is mostly use to its heavy enterprise use. A lot of compnies have HP printers and use Linux as their printer server so they’ve put a lot of work into the open source Linux Driver because of that and we all benefit from it even on the desktop.

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Only cause you’re there with your weird esoteric desktop OS :stuck_out_tongue:

Speaking of weird esoteric OSs, Theonewhoisdrunk also got that PinePhone and he crashed it already :rofl:

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I’m not surprised lol. I’ve crashed mine more times than I can count especially using SailfishOS where it was every other minute, though its a pre-produnction unit meant for developers to test and build the software support for it so thats kinda the point lol.

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And you’re using something like that as your daily driver?
“Michael! Where in the bloody hell were ye? We’ve been worried sick!”
“Sorry, mum. Me phone crashed and I had to compile the kernel again.”

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Used to but not at the moment for that reason, I’ve missed calls and texts because of it crashing and me messing around with it. Don’t get me wrong though its great when it works and the software is almost their on some of the OSes just needs a little more work to be stable.

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What’s the app situation like? App store with the same stuff you find on Android/iOS or desktop software and the rest in the browser?

really depends on what OS your using. Ubports has its own appstore called at https://open-store.io/ where you can install and use either native or web apps for the device, other OSes like postmarketOS are pretty much native Linux with a phone UI so any standard aarch64 compiled Linux software should run on it with the issue being that a lot of apps weren’t designed to scale for a phone screen though I’m even using the native Firefox on postmarketOS as my browser and it works pretty well. You can also run Android Apps using anbox with a little bit of fiddling though their performance isn’t that great.

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Microsoft, in order to deal with the fact that XP and 7 are hard phased out now, added a ton of legacy drivers to win 8 and 10. Is super nice when you have random ass hardware that just works now.

Tell that to my printer. For some reason it was a pain in the ass to install the driver and software.

Some still aren’t added, it is Microsoft after all lol

Yeah. My grandma has some simple games installed and sometimes (usually after Windows updates) they suddenly don’t work anymore or not properly.
Not that the games are amazingly programed but it shows how easily Windows can break stuff.

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The only printers I actually don’t hate are the giant commercial grade ones. Can actually fix the things.
Then again they are usually multiple thousands of dollars and massive so most people only see them at work if ever :upside_down_face:

Otherwise fuck printers

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think printers is the opposite tho

since linux doesnt like to throw out drivers, so once the shit gets added it stays forever, where in windows the printer has to be atleast newer then x in alot of cases where many printers that worked with xp wont work with anything after 7

ye but then you gotta do ram upgrades and stuff to print faster

@TheDiddilyHorror @Dje4321 whoever else

Game Boy Advance - Pokemon FireRed LeafGreen - Overworld NPCs

thinking also remove 2 of the green outfit people, maybe the non camper(ones with hat)


since there being the battle sprites, theres no other green outfits besides that girl with the hat, so probably only used for random background npc that doesnt do anything useful, and they look basically the same besides hat, besides guy has brown pants and slightly lighter hair, and the lady has different hair with hat

but from memory camper isnt that popular in the game anyways, so dont think will be much of a change really

otherwise there is the extra tubers that dunno, like the on ground and on water sprite, and the other color one with different hair, but think those are on the same map, (trying to reduce mostly ones not used in the same map anyways where you cant see the difference/cant compare directly)

edit:

then you got the sprite for garys sister too thats very similar to the non hat green outfit


sup nibbas

edit:3 or something

@Cavemanthe0ne how mad do you mech bois get if someone calls a dome a mech? i mean as a fact of it lowering a contact to short out the pads, as is say most all controller buttons, or what about the bigger keys which also have specifically a metal spring? like the space bar and such that have the anti roll bar basically

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i bought a 256gb to attempt my gen3 ssd mod but partitioning it so the ipod can work 120ish gb the 3rd gen has issues loading the song list and crashes so i hope this will work

THOUGH i would like not to get sued Screen Shot 2020-08-01 at 4.49.22 PM dunno if the “apple computer inc” logo and copyright on the connector might get me fucked

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