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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 05:25:03 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I wonder how hard it is to make a fake USB printer.
   Like, a printer that takes any printout and goes "yep, that printed just fine" but nothing ever comes out anywhere

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 07:33:33 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Darksecond

     @darksecond yeah but I specifically want it to lie about the print succeeding

   • Darksecond (darksecond@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 07:33:34 JST Darksecond

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     @foone isn’t that just any printer? They almost malfunction.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 07:36:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • demofox

     @demofox I've got a program that keeps printing things at regular intervals, and it wastes several seconds between items. if I had a fake printer, I could do a real print batch at the beginning, then every time it tries to print, it just instantly succeeds, doing nothing.

   • demofox (demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 07:36:57 JST demofox

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     @foone what's your usage case?

   • biggestsonicfan (biggestsonicfan@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 08:16:05 JST biggestsonicfan

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     • demofox

     @foone @demofox I think I used to use a software called PDF995 and set the output directory to a read-only folder for this type of edge case.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 12:27:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     My point is not a printer that's broken, my point is a printer that appears TO THE COMPUTER to print instantly and successfully.

     Just I don't care if any paper comes out anywhere, and would prefer not.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 11:07:19 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Pyxaron

     @Pyxaron hah! nice. And it doesn't throw any errors when you print to it?

   • Pyxaron (pyxaron@dragonchat.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 11:07:20 JST Pyxaron

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     @foone Because this was bugging me, i played with it, and i found that you can actually just create a printer on the nul: port under Windows, and have it successfully print jobs to the void.