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Change that to "Computers/Printers" and you'll probably have universal appeal


Printers are directly descended from Satan himself.

Edit: and printing is the one part of the tech world that really is worse than it used to be. Most of the time, it’s just rose colored glasses that make us think things are worse. Computers used to be awful. Constant crashing and rebooting, and stuff randomly failing to work. Slow, bad UX, etc. printers, however, worked fairly reliably. Then… inkjet, laser jet and fuck this jet. Printers haven’t worked since inkjet became a thing. Dye sublimation printers, thermal printers, and impact printers seem to work forever without issue. The common inkjet printer is just a pile of plastic and bullshit.


What's hilarious is how much better my 3d printer is for usability than a paper printer..

That said get a B&W laser from brother or other and shit generally jsut works


That being said, the advent of USB made "Life with Printers" a lot more survivable. Parallel and (especially!) serial ports were straight from hell.




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