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1. Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 01:27:49 JST Angry Sun
   this video was as stressful as setting up a printer myself, which made it not fun to watch
   • Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 01:27:43 JST Pawlicker

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • Zergling_man
     @Zergling_man @lanodan @sun nobody will do anything because everyone gave up on printers and cargo cults them as demonic boxes that don't do anything.
   • Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 01:27:44 JST Zergling_man

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @lanodan @sun Scanners don't have proprietary ink cartridges though so can they really be worse than printers?
   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 01:27:46 JST Angry Sun

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • Zergling_man
     @lanodan @Zergling_man He did invite his viewers to tell their own printer horror stories in the comment section, which was fun.
     
     The last printer I owned was an HP, and it finally angered me so bad that I picked it up, took it outside and threw it as hard as I could at the cement driveway, in rage. I have never owned a printer since then and I never will. The rare times I need to print, I take it to a FedEx Store.
   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 01:27:46 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Zergling_man
     @sun @Zergling_man Pretty happy with my brother laser printer but yeah, printers are quite hell.
     
     Scanners meanwhile? Fuck them, I typically just use my photo camera instead.
   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 01:27:47 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Zergling_man
     @Zergling_man @sun Well it could be a funny thing to watch though.
     Like disasters happening to people represents a lot of youtube videos.
   • Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 01:27:48 JST Zergling_man

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     @sun oh no I deliberately invited a demon into my home and now I am cursed, how could this possibly be happening to me
   •  (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 01:28:19 JST 

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • Zergling_man
     • Pawlicker
     @PurpCat @lanodan @Zergling_man @sun My LaserJet 1020 with a replacement cartridge for the price of small pizza still just works.
   • Cocoa Hoto in real life (cocoa@nekosat.work)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 01:32:51 JST Cocoa Hoto in real life

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     • Pawlicker
     @mint @PurpCat @lanodan @Zergling_man @sun the only good quality inkjets have is price, laser all the way
      likes this.
   • Dumb Idiot Retard (idiot@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 01:38:42 JST Dumb Idiot Retard

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • Zergling_man
     • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
     @mangeurdenuage @sun @Zergling_man @lanodan I keep telling people "we need a Free Hardware Foundation" and everyone keeps not taking me seriously yet retracing my logic from first principles back to the same conclusion.
   • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 01:38:42 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • Zergling_man
     • Dumb Idiot Retard
     @idiot @Zergling_man @lanodan @sun
     Need a FCF, Foundation for Computing Freedom.
   • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 01:38:43 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • Zergling_man
     @sun @lanodan @Zergling_man Printers are the curse of the computer world, they're still the thing that would start a second FSF movement imo.
   • That Would Be Telling (thatwouldbetelling@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 01:39:15 JST That Would Be Telling

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
     • Dumb Idiot Retard

     @mangeurdenuage @idiot @Zergling_man @lanodan @sun You also need a lot of money especially if you want your hardware to be affordable, and much, much better governance than the FSF for example.

     For profit companies have an implicit advantage there, if they completely screw up they stop making money. Whereas Gnu Hurd is still on its road to nowhere thirty four years after it formally started.

     But with money also comes temptation, see the Raspberry Pi for example (switched over to prioritizing companies that embed their stuff, is now doing an IPO).

     I can't think of any high volume open hardware projects that either avoided that fate (of course Raspberry Pi actually wasn't very open, but that's in part on Broadcom etc. and the latter's making too many of a certain chip) or got anywhere, see for example lowRISC which was founded to make a very interesting RISC-V chip, as in they talked about what it would cost to make N-thousand working ones, and ended up being a consulting company.

     See also how much it costs up front to make good injection molded plastic parts for packaging, that's generally needed for high volume parts for consumers. Every time you see something that's metal, CNC machined, and/or 3D printed you know it's going to be extra expensive.

   • gray (gray@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 01:47:01 JST gray

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     • Pawlicker
     @mint @PurpCat @lanodan @Zergling_man @sun I’m still running a cheap Brother laser printer for the last 15 years
      likes this.