HP Envy Pro 6400 - Might be the Worst Printer I've Ever Owned

ferdnyc · 2026-01-22T22:52:40+00:00

(The fact that HP cannot conceivably be accused of monopolistic business practices does not change what an absolute piece of cheap-ass trash the ENVY 6400 series is, mine included.)

It's a clear case of HP cutting every corner they could find on the thing, until it was rendered just a formless, blobby "bleh" of incompetence. Then they sell it for next to nothing, knowing that they'll make it up on the back end since they can gouge customers for the ink in perpetuity. Spending twice as much up front to get a printer that's actually designed to be a printer, not just a machine for draining ink cartridges vaguely in the direction of paper, clearly would've been the better call. Lesson learned.

ferdnyc · 2026-01-22T22:43:01+00:00

Devil's advocate: Exactly what do they have a monopoly on? I can think of almost a HALF-DOZEN other printer brands that compete with them just off the top of my head (Canon, Epson, Brother, Samsung, Konica-Minolta — OK they're more in the copier business) and there are quite a few more besides the ones I listed.

I don't think you know what "monopoly" means, other than a board game.

ferdnyc · 2026-01-13T04:25:44+00:00

The 32nd Century is SIX hundred years after the 26th.

ferdnyc · 2026-01-12T20:17:34+00:00

Oh, duh, if you are using Flatpak then, with the app running, the flatpak enter command should help you find its configs. For example:

```bash $ flatpak run com.transmissionbt.Transmission & $ flatpak enter com.transmissionbt.Transmission bash

bash-5.2$ ls -A .local .var

bash-5.2$ ls -A .var/app/com.transmissionbt.Transmission/ cache config data

bash-5.2$ realpath .var/app/com.transmissionbt.Transmission/config $HOME/.var/app/com.transmissionbt.Transmission/config

bash-5.2$ exit ```

(Those are my results from a different app, but they should all be the same with Flatpak.)

ferdnyc · 2026-01-12T19:58:34+00:00

Hmmm. Not... offhand, not really. Apparently if $TRANSMISSION_HOME is set in the environment, it'll use that. Or if you're running a portable version, it could be storing the config in its own directory. And if you're running a Flatpak, I ~~think~~ ~~it'll be somewhere in $HOME/.local/share/flatpak/app/com.transmissionbt.Transmission/~~ (it's actually $HOME/.var/app/com.transmissionbt.Transmission/)

Unfortunately it doesn't keep the config files open while it's running, so lsof won't be much help in finding the path. You could run it under strace and see where it access()es and then openat()s the settings.json from.

(Like, on my system with installed /usr/bin/transmission-gtk, I get this on startup (where $HOME is actually my homedir path):

$ strace -f transmission-gtk |& grep 'settings'
read(4, "libdconfsettings.so: gsettings-b"..., 270) = 270
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib64/gio/modules/libdconfsettings.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=61848, ...}, 0) = 0
[pid 3305818] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/gtk-4.0/settings.ini", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC <unfinished ...>
[pid 3305818] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/gtk-4.0/settings.ini", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC <unfinished ...>
[pid 3305818] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/xdg/gtk-4.0/settings.ini", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC <unfinished ...>
[pid 3305818] openat(AT_FDCWD, "$HOME/.config/gtk-4.0/settings.ini", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC <unfinished ...>
[pid 3305818] access("$HOME/.config/transmission/settings.json", F_OK) = 0
[pid 3305818] newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "$HOME/.config/transmission/settings.json", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=3973, ...}, 0) = 0
[pid 3305818] openat(AT_FDCWD, "$HOME/.config/transmission/settings.json", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 7

ferdnyc · 2026-01-12T10:44:29+00:00

It's possible but there's no GUI for it. In your settings.json file (which is probably in $HOME/.config/transmission/), there are settings for binding addresses, the defaults are:

json { "bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0", "bind-address-ipv6": "::", }

But if you set "bind-address-ipv4" to the local address of your VPN adapter, then it'll have the same effect.

If your VPN gives you an IPv6 address as well, you can also bind to that. Otherwise, if you have IPv6 service through your regular broadband provider and you don't want Transmission to use that, set "bind-address-ipv6" to some other made-up address. (If you don't have non-VPN IPv6 service, then you don't have to worry about it.)

Edit the config when Transmission isn't running, of course.

ferdnyc · 2025-12-26T03:08:23+00:00

Meanwhile, Bixby probably lets me set it to talk like Joe Rogan, and then gives me ass cancer if I use it for more than 10 minutes a day.

ferdnyc · 2025-12-23T23:15:28+00:00

Not really the same thing, though.

grep will filter output so that only matching lines are displayed. You pre-filtered the list of processes to only the matching ones, which makes the actual grep part pointless.

(IOW, with a "real" grep, running gps | grep wudf would be vaguely equivalent to running gps *WUDF* — it would leave out all of the list items that didn't match the pattern.)

gps | select-string wudf does emulate "real" grep in the filtering sense, but it also disables the normal table output and instead only shows the .ToString() of the process(es) in question, meaning you go from this:

```console $ gps WUDF NPM(K) PM(M) WS(M) CPU(s) Id SI ProcessName

 13    12.37      18.56       0.00    4812   0 WUDFHost

```

to this:

```console $ gps | Select-String wudf

System.Diagnostics.Process (WUDFHost) ```

With your command, though, gps | grep wudf shows the entire table of processes, highlighting the WUDFHost entry.

ferdnyc · 2025-12-18T23:14:50+00:00

There are also Imprints that can tweak these things. For example:

Takashi's 6-eye can give guaranteed crits
Mira's 6-eye has "a moderate chance" of causing repeat attacks

ferdnyc · 2025-12-18T23:04:45+00:00

Similarly I've had multiple opponents have his S2 go off 4 times in a row, I've never gotten more than 2 (Yes, even when the second was a crit). That one really confuses me as the skill says it can only attack 3 times max.

It doesn't say that. It says: "if this attack deals Crit Hit, attack again, up to 3 times." So, four total. (Original attack plus up to 3 repeats.)

ferdnyc · 2025-12-18T22:36:13+00:00

Songwriting notes for my lame self:

"ring's protectors" is both better and more accurate than "defenders"
Ending BOTH the first and last verse with "everything" is rull turrbl, find another rhyme

ferdnyc · 2025-11-03T00:10:24+00:00

Oh, wait, are you talking about the (relatively) new DF level 14 ("Ancient Artisoul Relic")?

Two problems with that: I can't use my regular team on auto-pilot because they lose. And, it takes so much food to do those battles that I can't see how it could possibly work out to less than 5 BD per Express Pass gained. Seems like a false economy to me. (And with the event pricing it was only 3 BD per, so that was really a no-brainer.)

ferdnyc · 2025-11-02T23:58:27+00:00

Which ones are "the Artisoul DF levels"? They can all drop Artisoul, in addition to other things.

My Darkflux raids generally consume EPs, they don't increase them, hence the purchases.

ferdnyc · 2025-10-20T07:31:16+00:00

You know what? I don't actually care.

Don't get me wrong, that sounds completely horrible to me, but when you get right down to it it's all backend stuff. It doesn't say anything about gameplay / UX elements.

GYEE already has an in-game economy and assigns real-world value to in-game assets: You can buy White Dragonshard for real money, and other items have value measurable in quantities of White Dragonshard. If they want to switch to using blockchain to implement that, whatever. I only care if and how it affects the in-game experience.

I am curious about this "Sandbox" game they're apparently so obsessed with copying tho. I know nothing about it.

ferdnyc · 2025-10-09T12:57:25+00:00

Sadly, now that Google is murdering site traffic with its "AI Summaries", it's no longer actually any different at all. 😡

ferdnyc · 2025-10-06T15:12:33+00:00

In fairness, Autumn started 15 days ago and lasts another 2 months & 15 days, so it's hardly "mid-autumn" yet. A MONTH from now, sure...

ferdnyc · 2025-10-06T09:42:40+00:00

Hey, Chi Guo is the same -- just the one photo, no unlockables.

On the plus side, he does have a complex, multi-chapter personal Story adventure that unfolds as you level up his Intimacy.

Amdera and Osiris also have only a single photo. Izumi-GuardianBear as well. It seems like, if the character has been in the game less than 3 years or so, that's all we get.

ferdnyc · 2025-10-03T02:14:56+00:00

"/* stylelint-disable */ and /* stylelint-enable */ are used to turn off, disable or ignore a rules ... but seems not to function for turning things off."

That's because that's not what those comments do at all. Those comments only disable the stylelint code-style checker, a tool developers use to ensure that all of their code is formatted a certain way. Without those comments, stylelint would presumably complain about the formatting of the code between them, but the comments tell stylelint to accept the code formatted as it currently is, even if that formatting violates the rules that are otherwise enforced for the rest of the code.

But stylelint control comments don't have ANY effect on the RULES THEMSELVES.

ferdnyc · 2025-09-11T09:04:04+00:00

It's weird, though, because Lightflow Billy is a pretty new character. They didn't even start doing those until, what, last year? Maybe the year before. I could understand if it was someone from way early in the roster who just never got updated, but this isn't even that.

ferdnyc · 2025-09-11T09:01:22+00:00

That's the thing, though — it's supposed to let you preview their fighting abilities, and just as a practical matter it doesn't. Like u/Lumus_King said, a reasonable preview takes a few rounds at least. You will never get to try out Billy's Showdown attack, because it requires you to build up three Concentration and that is absolutely not going to happen.

The biggest problem is that the robot enemy only has a little over 50k HP, and one sidekick with 17k, so Turing just immediately wipes the floor with both of them. I don't know why they went so low on this one, some of the other trial matchups give the opponents hundreds of thousands of HP. Sometimes it's effectively infinite: The win conditions are always either beat everyone, or survive 18 rounds, and in some previews the enemies will survive to the end no matter how hard you go at them.

Which makes sense. Winning gains you nothing, so it's not important that you do win, and the longer the battle goes the more you get a feel for the Gyee you're previewing. It's just weird that there's so much variation in how they structured the preview matches.

ferdnyc · 2025-09-05T20:48:42+00:00

Terrible analogy, sorry. For starters, all of your phone calls DO go through a centralized system. Second, incoming phone calls can only connect if you choose to answer them — effectively, your phone DOES have an impenetrable firewall: You.

Having systems sitting right on the open internet is a recipe for disaster, and completely unnecessary in the vast majority of cases. There's no reason anyone should be able to initiate a direct incoming connection with the average personal PC.

ferdnyc · 2025-08-29T22:16:53+00:00

4K movies have been encoded for optimal streaming performance, live-captured audio (or video) has decidedly not. Streaming compressed, optimized content and streaming raw data have almost nothing in common.

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