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HP is the worst.
Why is “jup” in German/Dutch/Swedish/Danish spelling?
Are you an undercover German?
Hello, printer driver developer here. I hate you all
Man, I just love the way you guys ignore basic exception handling, insist on using undocumented APIs, exclusively hook into system resources, fail to address even the most fundamental of good memory management practises and then demand your software runs as an unprotected kernel-level driver.
It's fucking great.
Hey, you can blame my senior who did most of it and left this mess to me when he quit. I just pray everyday that nothing breaks since we don't even have internal documentation for this code and almost no comments whatsoever :)
I love my job :D
PC Load Letter
My Brother laser printer sends its regards.
We can tell.
Brother brand Laser Printer, gentleman. Only printer I'd ever touch
I couldn't convince my dad to get a Brother laser printer, so he got a Brother Inkjet. It still works so much better, and the ink lasts so much longer, than any other inkjet I've used.
This is the way.
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Why tf do printers even need drivers? Where do they have to go? Why can't they get there by themselves?
CUPS my beloved
They usually have casters but they're pretty flimsy.
printer is one odd bunch of computing output devices
when other types of output devices (such as monitor display, hdmi, usb, etc) evolves and improved over decades, printer is bring so much little into the mix
They evolved backwards. Back in the day you sent the raw text over the parallel port and it just printed it
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Back in my day. Printers printed in dots. And that's the way we liked it.
Put cabled in. And it worked.
And it was so satisfying ripping the side holes off.
Ripping the side holes off and putting them into a box so you have an entire box full of shredded paper sides
Also satisfying: folding two strips like this:
Quote me after dealing with print drivers acting up and spooler service crashes for the nth time that day (also worked in it support for several years):
"We can land men on the moon, but somehow getting a printer, a technology that has existed litteraly since before computers had screens, to work is still complete and utter black magic...!"
Printers are proof there's a God and that it thrives on our suffering.
Ink for the ink god, drivers for the driver throne.
I never noticed, but it looks like the guy who took the photo got sprayed too.
pc load letter?
WTF does that mean?
I literally go to the copy place now and tell everyone I "don't know how" to work on printers.
Life is too short.
#1 reason to go paperless at the office lol
Multifunction-Printers are even worse. If you got a decent one by chance, after 5 odd years the integrated server gets wonky and the usb controller starts randomizing MAC addresses, so you have to setup it anew each time. Those things are haunted!
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Printers are the worst!
We have central printing with color Kyoceras on each floor, with black and white as default preset (pushed via GPO) we managed to decrease our printing expenses by 80%
so we have an uncovered smiling cop pepper-spraying and a dude with a full protective mask and gas type filters turning head and closing eyes. :) Is it only me who find this pic weird.
It's what pigs do. Don't matter the country.
Also keep in mind, the person getting spray isn't just a regular protestor but the press.
I believe the OP was asking why the cop isn't worried about spraying themselves in the face. Pepper spray has a habit of getting everywhere.
Hey it's me zebra...🔥🔥🔥🔥 oopsie
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