A light of wholesomeness shining in a bleak dystopian hellscape

I switched to a Lazer printer last year and damn so so so so much better than that fucking hp inkjet printer I had.

a later printer

Elder printers are well worth the sacrifices one must make to acquire one.

I think the earlier ones were great, too. Jokes aside: people have been saying how much better Brother printers are (used to be?). I only heard positive comments about them, but even my HP laser printer is just a reliable workhorse. Or at least it has been in the last 2 years. I've been trying to convert people ever since (to laser printers, not HP).

Tried to fire up an older HP monochrome laser printer that is still working perfectly.

The problem? Windows 11 has no drivers, and it literally cannot be used at all. Not through Wi-Fi (old drivers, too), not through the USB port, or my shared through my router.

I mean, seriously, this stuff should work on a generic print driver until the end of time, but nope.

The downside of laser printers is that toner is very bad for your lungs.

Holy shit, I had no idea. That is crazy.

Did you know some professional photocopiers have 0,5 or 1 tb cache drives?

Okay, thank you for ruining my optimism a bit more. Seriously, can't even trust a printer.

Peak are the assholes of printer design

"Smart" = dumb

I wonder how feasible an open source printer would be, like the open source 3d printers.

The demonic summoning ritual involved in bringing a printer to life is awfully hard to replicate using non-proprietary methods.

It's nice that the are going directly opposite that HP.

Yep! It's pretty surprising how many people replace their broken device with the same brand that burned them IMO

Be like OP! Speak with your wallets 🤨

I have to second this one: we had HP printers at work which just sucked, so we threw them out. After changing to brother printers everything is so easy now. They just work!

I second the Brother recommendation! We've had our printer for almost a decade, and it's still going strong. I worked from home during the pandemic and we only had to buy ink twice. Iirc the black is like $25 and the color set is like $40. Sometimes it tries to not let you print if one of the colors runs out. But when that happens we just take out the cartridge and use sharpie to cover the transparent ink reservoir. The computer thinks it's full, so you can literally print until they all run dry.

I believe some of their models use a printing method similar to xerox machines that's even cheaper than ink, long term.

The only downside I've had is that the phone app is finicky and sometimes glitchy. For example, if I want to attach a document to an email I have to open the Brother app first, scan the document, share it to my email, save the draft it generates, exit the app, and then open my email back up and load the draft. I can't attach straight from Gmail. However, I think this might just be a phone compatibility issue. I have terrible luck with phones. But either way, it's still better than having to boot up the computer every time you need to print.

Eventually I'd like to find a model that can print from usb or be hardwired in addition to being wifi, so I don't have to rely on the app or my phone. But there's just no reason to upgrade yet, our printer still works great!

I've heard stories about people putting out old appliances and furniture out on the curb with a "free" sign. It sits out there for 4 weeks. Then they put out a sign that says "$20. inquire within" And an hour later it was stolen.

Man macht das, ja. Why not? One man's trash is another's treasure.

CR user here. One time we were taking some items out of my house in order to have them recycled for parts. I was taking out an old washing machine we had replaced some time ago, needing some major fixes to go back to usability... it had already been taken away by someone in the five minutes it took me to return back to the front of my house with another batch of things, and I couldn't help to chuckle at the speed in which things got recycled in my neighborhood

We have actual FB groups in many cities in my country where people tell others where there are skips usually accompanied with image. Even my own apartment building allows people to leave things they don't need for other people to take. My rocking chair, hallway table, and a lot of other stuff were found in one of these ways. I think I have bought maybe 5 furniture pieces in my life, the rest are someone's cast-offs although some could be classed as antiques. My dining table was my great grandma's. People don't really leave stuff at the curb here though.

The flyer says that it had to be fixed, so the first person just dumped their trash.

For our senior prank we went around for weeks picking up furniture left on curbs. We managed to set up full living room dioramas in front of the school with couches, recliners, coffee tables, TVs, etc. A bunch of people came back and used the furniture for their apartments when they moved out after graduation

Just beware what you grab this way as it's a great way to spread bug infestations. A friend of mine kept having to deal with bed bugs and cockroaches in her apartment because a guy living down the hall liked to refurbish free furniture he found on the street and kept bringing new infestations in after they cleared out the last one.

I'd definitely watch that version of Taken, especially if still stars Liam Neeson 😂

It's an HP product... so all bets are off