Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 3, 2024
I wonder how hard it is to make a fake USB printer.
Like, a printer that takes any printout and goes "yep, that printed just fine" but nothing ever comes out anywhere
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@foone hope you like implementing an entire virtual TCP/IP/HTTP stack, because CUPS now requires IPP-over-USB!!
Jun 3, 2024 at 8:30pmWeb
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@foone we spent 30 years dealing with shit USB printer driver incompatibility and instead of just fucking agreeing on how to do it properly over USB, we somehow ended up in the bizarre timeline where the oldest display operation in computing history now involves eight million layers of protocols and software