nixCraft 🐧You are officially classified as a dinosaur 🦕 if you ever encounter the "lp0 on fire" 🔥 error on Unix.
Thomas Thyberg@nixCraft That one I haven't got but I have got "You don't exist! Go away!"
John Maxwell@nixCraft Nah, in those days I couldn't afford a printer.
signs&calculus@nixCraft 'was aggravated by the fact that if the printer continued to operate, it would feed a fire with fresh paper at high speed' (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire)
That's a bad day...
synlogic@nixCraft 1st line printer!
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.@nixCraft False. Dinosauria is defined as the MRCA (most recent common ancestor) of Triceratops, Megalosaurus, and Iguanodon and all its descendants. Most never encountered the "lp0 on fire" error.
/Scrute
Verbo(e)se@BoydStephenSmithJr @nixCraft This is true as much as boring 😉
Dragon-sided D@nixCraft Ahhh... the modern era, in which devices are beautifully handled via file abstraction via /dev
Much more convenient than sending bit streams to specific registers to activate each pixel in the dot-matrix printer that didn't have "descenders" so letters like "y" looked wonky AF
Like we did with the TRS-80 Model I
lp0 on fire 
@nixCraft, no printers connected to parallel ports here, so next to no chance of seeing that. (I did have, years ago, and…)
locnar@nixCraft | /dev/null
ProffX@nixCraft I am a unixsaurus.