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More recently see Cory Doctorow's "Unauthorized Bread":

> The toaster wasn’t the first appliance to go (that honor went to the dishwasher, which stopped being able to validate third-party dishes the week before when Disher went under), but it was the last straw. She could wash dishes in the sink but how the hell was she supposed to make toast—over a candle?

* https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...

* From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radicalized_(Doctorow_book)




This would funny but since it's pretty much exactly how printers behave it's more just a slap in the face


I guess it's time to echo the meme: "The band 'Rage against the machine' does not explicitly says what kind of machine they are enraged to, but I'm pretty sure it's a printer".

EDIT: screen of the original tweet: https://old.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/vqmbu4/rage_again...


Neil Young's song "Piece of Crap" was (supposedly) about a (then-innovative) plain paper fax machine (previously they used thermal paper):

* https://genius.com/Neil-young-and-crazy-horse-piece-of-crap-...

* Album: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeps_with_Angels




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