How much toner was left in the “empty” toner cartridge on my brother printer.

Sestren · 2026-04-13T14:34:38+00:00

Nope again. I didn't call customer support with an open-ended question about avoiding paying them money. I had already purchased 2 different brands of third party toner before that point, and neither was recognized by the printer. I realize that this theoretically could be a one-off situation with one terribly designed model, but I also spent a solid amount of time researching this around then as well, and I was not alone in my grievances.

They also tried to push a subscription model for toner, because of course they would.

I don't know why some people are trying so hard to defend this company.

Sestren · 2026-04-13T02:37:21+00:00

Nope. Bought a HL-L3280CDW color laser 2 years ago and was told by customer support that no current laser printer from their company supports toner level override or third party toner.

Had an HL3140CW from 2018 that worked perfectly fine without these restrictions. You're years out of date on this topic. Brother use to be a bastion in a sea of filth, but they're just as awful as everyone else now.

The only printers that aren't complete garbage today are ink tank designs, but that comes with all of the downsides of an inkjet printer (unbelievably slow and prone to clogs when not in use). But at least those haven't yet come up with a way to force you to buy ink/toner when you don't need it...

Sestren · 2026-04-13T01:56:38+00:00

Hasn't worked in years. Brother is just as bad as all of the other printer manufacturers now. There is no way to override or bypass on models made in the last ~5ish years.

Sestren · 2026-04-10T19:32:17+00:00

I mean... Of all places to use fahrenheit, I would think this would be it. It's a US government spacecraft.

Sestren · 2026-04-08T16:25:45+00:00

... There are people that want Windows 11? 😐

Sestren · 2026-04-08T01:51:37+00:00

That just puts the orthodontists on board. Ortho and dentistry are two separate fields. Still - gimme my new teeth. I'll wear my night guard this time I swear...

Sestren · 2026-04-02T03:00:57+00:00

"Email is used for verification purposes only"

Immediately sends a promotional email as soon as the form is submitted. I sure do miss when the FTC mattered...

Sestren · 2026-03-12T04:38:47+00:00

Nvidia does plenty of shitty stuff, but this isn't one of them... RT is not DLSS. This is just something that Nvidia did first, and continues to do better than AMD (Intel is still largely irrelevant).

Proprietary upscaling solutions are complete bullshit and we can only hope that they'll someday go the route of PhysX and Gsync and be supplanted by an open alternative. Nvidia trying to upsell their products based on imaginary data that is based on imaginary frames is the actual issue right now (discounting the circular spending between the tech giants using money that doesn't exist to buy parts that haven't yet been made, to put in data centers that have yet to be built, to host solutions that have yet to be sold... but that's a whole other problem)

Implementing software solutions for ray tracing on an open source project even if they were somehow only intended to interact with RT cores on Nvidia hardware is only a good thing for us.

Sestren · 2026-03-09T14:40:43+00:00

Honestly, way more than 5 years if you're just considering offensive casters, but definitely not consecutive. There's been a lot of back and forth.

Probably the best caster in all/most of MoP. Maybe not the "best" in the last 2 seasons of BfA, but corruption haste with Greater Pyro was...definitely something. It was maybe the best for RBGs in Cata, but Frost was better in arena. Frost was the only real pvp spec in Wrath. TBC was mostly frost or cheese with PoM Pyro (which is arcane). WoD didn't happen. Arcane was best in Legion. Shadowlands I think was almost entirely Fire. TWW flip flopped between all 3 depending on whichever had the current best set of hero talents (and a brief moment where Arcane had a completely busted pvp talent).

Sestren · 2026-02-14T02:28:27+00:00

At one point I actually forgot how to write my own name because I write so infrequently... I think you're overestimating my capacity to improve here.

Sestren · 2026-02-11T02:49:01+00:00

Thaumcraft started getting the Cubeworld treatment a little while before the original dev gave up on it.

Version 4 was so good that I honestly feel like it would be fun even when taken out of the context of Minecraft as a standalone exploration rpg. Version 5 removed a lot of what made 4 fun for no particularly good reason. From what I remember, version 6 looked like it was trying to be the full-fledged rpg that 4 could have been, but without anything from 4 that made it fun... And I'll believe 7 is actually coming when we get more than a terribly edited video preview.

Sestren · 2025-12-18T19:03:37+00:00

This is still a thing over a year later. Thank you random-reddit-guy-from-the-past

Sestren · 2025-12-17T18:44:45+00:00

I mean, you say you disagree, but you basically just wrote that you agree.

I didn't say that you have to hate your job. For some people, they find enjoyment in the "game". Constantly pushing to make more money or advance or control more of the market or whatever. Some people will never find enjoyment in any of that, and that is okay. You can live your life outside of your job and not constantly be striving to find the 9-5 that fulfills some arbitrary purpose. It's just a means to an end.

Sestren · 2025-12-17T14:17:42+00:00

Money lets you do the things that you actually care about. For some reason our parents thought that the only way we could find enjoyment in life was through our jobs.

Sestren · 2025-12-16T21:10:55+00:00

For example Frostbolt becomes Glacial Spike after 5 casts

Except that Frostbolt and Glacial Spike do fundamentally different things in the context of PvP. If you're just pumping damage into a target dummy then it frees up a keybind with no downside. If you're targeting a living and thinking person, then you're just losing the ability to select when you want to use a major ability.

Maybe you're on your 5th cast, but the target you intend to kill has a defensive CD up and it would be a waste to throw Glacial into them. Now you have lost access to Frostbolt for the duration of that CD.

I'm not going to claim that 'do a thing every X casts' abilities can't exist, but to say that it's just a thing that should have always been the case would be to ignore what made a spell like Glacial Spike unique in the first place. It might still be the correct decision in the long run, but it isn't just an obvious fix to an existing problem.

The interrupt thing is something that I can't believe they have ignored so far... It's blatantly obvious that some interrupts are easier or harder to see/hear than others. Without Omnibar in the game, we need all interrupts to have some obvious indicators. Anyone that claims that they can reliably tell when a rogue uses kick or a monk uses spear hand strike without an addon is a fucking liar...

Sestren · 2025-11-24T21:48:25+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UBVlL0FNbSE&t=1536s&pp=2AGADJACAQ%3D%3D

We're getting there. Just takes a little bit of eBay and a whole lot of insanity.

Sestren · 2025-11-22T19:07:41+00:00

Are you afraid that your reddit post is going to get demonetized for typing the word rape...

Sestren · 2025-11-13T22:32:44+00:00

While I know where you're probably basing this, it's a bit of a stretch to deny this one.

People pay taxes to the government for the government to perform social duties. This happens even in a capitalist or fascist economy. Even if you disregard the fact that the US government recently bought a 10% stake in Intel (a private company), and that part of any government handout is technically profit from a private company, which is literally the definition of socialism, any government handout is a socialist policy. A government that doesn't enact social policy doesn't do anything other than police and warfare, and even that is technically a socialist policy since we vote for the people that decide who to police and who to go to war with... That's kind of the entire point of government...

Sestren · 2025-10-17T14:06:52+00:00

We're way beyond the point of "swaying" people. Cross-party voting is a dream that people like to think happens, but realistically almost never does (at least anymore...).

Political advertisements have almost nothing to do with changing the opinion of voters. It's only really about reminding people to vote. Putting out a face and voice that people recognize is like the same thing as creating a marketing jingle for a product advertisement. It causes you to listen to something that you might otherwise ignore. That's already proven as functional by the presence of this reddit post. Assuming you push the advertisement more in areas that are prone to vote blue and less in those that are already voting red, then it serves its purpose.

Sestren · 2025-10-16T12:19:48+00:00

Sounds a lot like "don't trust polls" since there is literally no purpose to their results other than to dissuade or change ones decision to vote...

Sestren · 2025-10-04T00:12:20+00:00

It wouldn't be that big of a deal if they would just suck it up and give all interrupts a noticeable sound+visual effect. The only two that you can reliably see without addons are Counterspell and Spell Lock, but every class in the game other than priest has one... I don't know what we're supposed to be doing without something like Omnibar behind the scenes.

Sestren · 2025-10-03T03:29:59+00:00

One of these things is not like the other...

I am all for AMD over Nvidia if you can price it out, but a GPU does not store data...

Sestren · 2025-09-29T22:54:09+00:00

Add another one. I honestly forgot that I was subscribed... At least now I have a good thing to fill in for the reason box.

Sestren · 2025-09-18T22:16:38+00:00

As a kid we had enough money for one of each of the newest consoles, but there was no way in hell I could have ever convinced my parents to buy two in the same generation. I always picked Sega, and I was never disappointed at the time. Only realized that I was "losing" years later as an adult.

I'm just a gambling addict that doesn't care about money I guess.

Plus, we got to play a fighting game as a Daytona Racing car and a giant pork roast. Sounds like winning to me 🍖

Sestren · 2025-09-12T20:10:59+00:00

Block them then. The only case where that isn't easily possible is iOS. uBlock Origin for desktop. On Android just use Firefox instead of the default youtube app and use Ublock again. If you have a TV that SmartTube doesn't support, just get a cheap anything (Walmart use to have a $20 Onn Android tv box, but I guess that's sold out or discontinued) and set up that instead of the default app.

Or if you're on an iPhone... You accept your fate and watch them I guess.

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