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submitted 5 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47150767

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[–] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Honestly, the fact that here in 2026, we still can't get peripherals like audio, video, and printers to work in a 100% reliable and seamless way, is just embarrassing. It's been over 30 years of having this stuff mostly standardized (and then re-standardized) and it's still a shitshow.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Blame the short term focus on profit and the system we exist in. There simply is no reason for it to be stable. It's not a life or death matter, neither for people nor for companies, hence, it will not be prioritised. The world would have to be very different for these "basic" things to be prioritised.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Printer companies keep them bad on purpose so you'll buy new printers hoping they fixed it (or at the high end pay for their maintenance contract).

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago*

    No, it is just really difficult to go from digital yo analog.

    In analoge, it doesn't matter if something is misaligned by a milimeter. The tollerance is pretty big.

    But digital is always exact. It doesn't have the leeway to go off the exact path.

    So if something is misaligned even slightly, the mismatch grows exponentially. And that is when the conversion from digital to analog breaks down.

    Meaning, printers will always suffer until we can make analog as exact as digital, which is a very big ask we are currently unable to reach.

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