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What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work? (lemmy.world)
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It always feels like some form of VR tech comes out with some sort of fanfare and with a promise it will take over the world, but it never does.

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[–] 23 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Printers.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    I think there is an open source printer being created. Potentially has the chance at being the only printer that isn't a pile of shit.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I really liked my old brother laser printer.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Keyword in that is 'old' - new printers are shit, and Brother printers have been pretty bad in my experience as well. Most any new printers I've touched is just terrible.

    But then again, I stan my old HP color LJ that I got for free from the early 2010s that I got when my employer went to a printer contract service and just dumped all the printers they currently had. That fucker runs like a champ and has let me put in after market toner carts without much complaint and 0 printing issues. Modern HP printers only belong on fire.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago*

    I have a black and white laser printer

    a Brother, FWIW

    that works great. It sits there and when I print the occasional document, flips on and quietly and quickly does its thing. I remember printers in past decades. Paper jams. Continuous-tractor feed paper having the tractor feeds rip free in the printer. Slow printing. Loud printing. Prints that smeared. Clogging ink nozzles on inkjets.

    It replaced a previous Apple black-and-white laser printer from...probably the early 1990s that I initially got used which also worked fine and worked until the day I threw it out

    I just wanted more resolution, which current laser printers could do.

    The only thing that I can really beat the Brother up for is maybe that, like many laser printers, to cut costs on the power supply, it has a huge power spike in what it consumes when it initially comes on; I'd rather just pay for a better power supply. But it's not enough for me to care that much about it, and if I really want to, I can plug it into power regulation hardware.

    It's not a photo printer, and so if someone wants to print photos, I can appreciate that a laser printer isn't ideal for that, but...I also never print photos, and if I did at some point, I'd probably just hit a print shop.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Nah.

    The printer / multifunction I have right now is pretty magical. It just works. It's a solved problem.

    I think the problem is that the cheaper ones are hostile.

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