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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Oh my 10+ year old printer is still on its original set of cartridges, or maybe they’ve had at most one replacement set.

    The previous one, which also lasted several years but had to be replaced because there were no Windows 7 drivers. That had I believe one set of replacement cartridges over like 6 or 7 years.

    I have no idea what the hell is going on, it’s like I’ve been blessed with top 0.0001% printer luck as a stat. But like I said, I don’t intend to tempt faith and try again if this one needs new cartridges or it stops working altogether. If in a few years we discover that in this (or worse, next) decade kids STILL need to print a bunch of bullshit for school instead of emailing or submitting things via like moodle or something, it’ll probably be a laser and probably Brother, as it seems this article was a bit hasty and apparently they’re sitll good?


  • Is there one very central, singular instance/server that everyone can join from, without causing performance issues (like if everyone on Lemmy was on the same instance)?

    That’s required for normies. Look, 90% of people won’t ever move from reddit to lemmy because they’d have to CHOOSE an instance. It’s not that the choice even matters TOO much. It’s just the fact that there’s a choice. It’s a problem.

    When Steve Jobs said Apple restricted your customizability and settings because users are dumb and don’t know what they want, I always thought he was an arrogant dickhead. And he was an arrogant dickhead, but he was also right. Average users don’t want choices, they want the OOTB experience to be as good as possible.