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Ritalin may be both dextroanphetamine or methylphenidate. Depending on where it is comersialized. It would have been a good choice to include the compound in the title



Are you sure about that? I have only heard of Ritalin being a brand name for methylphenidate, where in the world does it refer to amphetamine?


Took Ritalin/Concerta most of my life, this is very wrong. Ritalin is Methylphenidate and only Methylphenidate.

Variables are dosage in MG, XR or IR.


There are no way this statement is true


Are you sure? Maybe dext- is Aderall? I take Ritalin and it’s always methyl-


I've never heard of this .Ritalin is methylphenidate.

Do you have any sources ?


That fixed the formatting.

Next is fixing the printers.

And then, the users. Ugh.


Printers are fixed and work fine – as long as you buy a laser printer (not HP though!) with postscript support


HP had been my go-to printers for the time I was still printing, maybe for a decade and a half starting around 2000. They "just work" on Linux systems with no driver downloads or other nonsense, including advanced non-printing features such as scanning. I'll admit that the build quality went down with every printer purchased, but that was an acceptable tradeoff for just plugging it in and getting to work. Not to mention that HP aftermarket ink is readily available and relatively affordable, especially if you simply refill the cartridges yourself (literally three minute job).


Personally I just use a brother DCP L3550cdw, I can print 3000 pages of color content for just 100 € in consumables, and it works just fine on any OS.

Due to HP’s war on third-party ink and toner, I just can’t recommend them.


On that topic, I accidentally just bought b/w toner for 18k pages for 70 € yesterday (I thought it was for 6k pages). https://www.ebay.de/itm/194967229480


+1 for Brother laser printers. I have the MFC-L3710CW model and cannot recommend it enough.


I bought third-party toner that came with a faulty chip, transplanted an original brother chip to it, and used the reset menu (open the printer to gain toner access, hold ← and X for 2 seconds, press ←, select which toner chip to reset as if it was full) and now it's working fine :)


Good to know if I ever need another printer, thanks.


HP laser printers are fine.


The Windows drivers are, to put it politely, absolute shit. They work well from MacOS and GNU/Linux though.


To be a little fairer to HP, windows printing is an abomination. I have two HP printers that I did nothing to enable printing on the linux installations, they appear automatically and work out of the box.

The windows machines? Expect to have to reinstall or reconfigure 6 monthly, and not just for HP.


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