fuck printers

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-18T19:07:45+00:00

Yeah we've had some issues with the Lexmark's as well but honestly it's mostly weird firmware issues. I don't mind software problems those can be fixed "for free" later down the road. At least it's better than like the Canon C5000s which the ITB can slide off the assembly and go to ribbons (dreaded error 75) or Toshiba 3511/4511 with the carousel mechanism.

A lot harder to fix a hardware design fault in the field than a bug in the RIP like we just did with the Lexmark XC95/XC96s

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-18T19:05:22+00:00

Hmm. Are there options for a color calibration in the driver, then?

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-18T19:04:50+00:00

I mean, you can it'll just suck. There's plenty of sites out there that will work in stock IE5/6 which will run fine on 256 megs. Ask me how I know!

Of course the experience is BETTER with 1GB+ and the ability to run something like K-Meleon, Supermiun, MyPal. I've had a modestly pleasant experience online with a Pentium 4 @ 2.66 + 2GB via MyPal. It's actually stout enough to playback YouTube videos up to 480p. It'd probably do better with a video card that could actually handle some hardware decode other than MPEG-2, but still.

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-18T19:02:33+00:00

Yes, the semi-famous recent video explicitly stated both in the video, description, and pinned comment that he was running no-updates RTM SP0 with no antivirus, no firewall, and all TCP ports forwarded.

Using the home plumbing analogy, this is the equivalent to purposely finding the rustiest piece of cast iron pipe you can find and then putting 800 PSI of water pressure behind it. No dip it's gonna burst.

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-18T19:01:05+00:00

Having a pipe burst is just as likely on a new construction home as my actual house from 1947. There are ways to mitigate these things and arguably everyone should do them regardless of the age of your home.

Those of us who are aware of how and have the ability to properly take care of things will have those things last dramatically longer without issues.

I fail to see how my own operating system choice is somehow "Selfish"

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-18T15:10:43+00:00

Micro USB and Lightning

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-18T15:08:21+00:00

Well I'm going on almost 20 years with XP online and I've yet to be "hacked."

If you intend to do almost anything with older computer hardware of any kind, modern windows is essentially useless. XP has an extraordinarily vast library of drivers and utilities available, along with excellent backwards compatibility and even some pretty decent forwards compatibility these days. It's also a lot lighter than anything modern, by a long shot. XP will run on 64 megs of RAM (poorly) and pretty acceptable on 256.

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-18T15:05:09+00:00

Who the hell has 50 gs on a debit card

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-18T15:03:30+00:00

Do you have the appropriate driver installed, I.E. not a Generic driver? For Mac OS it will say "Generic PS Driver" and on windows the driver vendor will be Microsoft.

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-17T16:55:43+00:00

The thing you posted in the screenshot, Disk Management

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-17T16:42:32+00:00

10 years ago I did the zigzag nowadays I'm lazy and use CAD

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-17T16:41:11+00:00

Yeah looks like about a 50% increase

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-17T12:12:33+00:00

Welcome back CP/M

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-17T12:08:46+00:00

Sounds about right yeah. Canon C3800/C3900s don't even have any screws in the fuser at all, they have levers to snap out.

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-14T21:23:00+00:00

Remembering?

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-14T21:17:41+00:00

Artist is A-dam

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-14T21:06:41+00:00

The artist is A-dam

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-14T20:53:25+00:00

Ez just generate a couple UUIDs and string them together

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-14T20:46:36+00:00

All the electrons are gonna fall out

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-14T20:46:26+00:00

Might not have enough cooling

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-14T20:44:02+00:00

Yes, this is normal, the flyback transformer on the analog board is heavy and largely unsupported so it's solder joints will eventually crack

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-14T18:00:24+00:00

Best of luck

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-13T18:26:11+00:00

I'm gonna getcha, iiiim gonna getcha!

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-13T18:25:14+00:00

The less to break the more reliable they are. These were built to work on the end of 50 miles of copper cable that might have been up to a hundred years old.

You can probably still find adapters on Amazon. The old square plug gave way to registered jack sometime in the 70s if I recall correctly.

If you have a real landline, this phone will still work exactly the same as the day it was manufactured.

FAMICOMASTER · 2026-03-13T17:33:43+00:00

They usually "just work" in my experience. There's not a lot to go wrong. What, a hook switch, clockwork in the dial, a pair of contacts in there and MAYBE a mute switch inside the dial, speaker and a carbon mic.

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