a fairy story 😭
@nixCraft nah, it's a Brother. πŸ˜‰
@nixCraft tbh my Brother MFC from more than a decade ago continues to kill it

@nixCraft

This is a friendlier post than mine was.

https://mefi.social/@dirtyoldtown/109519541972075119

DirtyOldTown (@[email protected])

You know what they should make? A printer that prints when you tell it to print. One that doesn't arbitrarily lose connection. One that won't jam. One that won't decide it can't print a B&W page because it's out of magenta. One that doesn't swear it's out of paper when there are 25 sheets left. One that won't repay you for reloading by immediately fucking jamming. One that won't refuse to print a single page for a meeting by deciding today is a good day for a cleaning cycle. One that won't make you think, "Hey... I should find the home address of this fucking company's CEO. I should buy the first ticket out there, I should rent a car and leave directly from the airport and go straight to his house. I should run up to this fucking guy while he's playing with his kids in his yard and push him into the mud. And I'd yell, "That's what you fucking get!" And I'd look at his crying kids and say, "Did you know your father was a fucking failure?" They should make a printer like that.

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@nixCraft So the Printer That Always Works walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Damn, I gotta stop dropping acid at work."
@nixCraft Honestly, I don't think I've had a problem with printers in Linux for nearly two decades. I plug it in and it works every time. I really don't understand what all the fuss is about. Is this a Windows issue, perhaps?
@nixCraft Damn I thought it was just me who is struggling to get this thing to work.
@nixCraft Amazingly, after this morning's re-install of Linux Mint, my printer *did* simply work!
@nixCraft I’m afraid it’s aged like milk. I have a driverless MFD from … wait for it … HP that simply works on Linux, MacOS and even Windows (after some tinkering of course) :) But yeah, back in the days…
@nixCraft So glad I have only just made my coffee and wasn't drinking it πŸ™‚
@nixCraft My printer already has a 3D printed part it it to keep away trouble (at least one sort of trouble). My label printer stopped working after a windows update. Inkjet printers never print, when you need them, because the head is dried out. Yes, printers suck.
@nixCraft Hahahah! Yes. A reliable printer remains just out of reach. And yet by now we were supposed to have flying cars, hoverboards, & interplanetary travel with artificial gravity.

@nixCraft @Pr0mptCr1t1cal i had one of those.... A couple of times.... Image Writer II and a LaserJet 6.

They don't make them like that anymore.... ;)

@hazer @nixCraft @Pr0mptCr1t1cal yeah.

Once my old #DeskJet 6122 is EoL, my next one.will be a laser MFP from #Xerox...
https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/109559803242830706

Kevin Karhan :verified: (@[email protected])

@[email protected] well, #Laser-based #XeroxWorkcentre do just work... Only add paper and toner...

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@nixCraft well, #Laser-based #XeroxWorkcentre do just work...

Only add paper and toner...

@nixCraft I like to read it to fall asleep at night