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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
Also, when I got the cyan cartridge out I could literally hear that there was still ink in it. So I tried to just put the same one in at first, but the printer wasn't to be fooled and firmly stated it's empty.
Well, this is how much blue ink I got to dribble out of the empty cartridge:
Printer manufactures are literally scum, somewhere below Goldman Sachs bankers and maybe slightly above African dictators.
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I hate printers, with a passion
On a family support call. Mom needs to print a two page text document but the printer doesn't work correctly. She prints something like once a year, so the stupid cartridges are always dried out.
Knowing this, I try to print the document and see what I expected, white stripes everywhere. So I go to the tool thingy and select the option to clean the printing heads. Back to the document and print again. I get this lovely dialog:Oh yes, of course it can't fucking print a black and white document anymore because the fucking CYAN is empty. (It's always cyan, isn't it?!)
And to add instult to injury:
- There's a huge FUCKING TEXTBOX that tells you to click there for offers to buy ink.
- A yellow button to buy ink
- A
buttonhyperlink styled button that says "print this window".
Ignoring for a second that this dialog is shown in the first place because it refuses to print a b/w document for lack of cyan, I am sure as hell not goint to print this obscenely colorful, dumb as fuck window just so I know the serial number for the cyan cartridge is "T0892". Are you fucking kidding me!?
I don't even need cyan ink, it's only empty because of their fucking head cleaning utility, and now you want me to waste even more of it to print this asshole of a window.I put in a replacement cartridge of cyan ink and print the document. It's still got some stripes in it, even though fewer this time. Another round of printer head cleaning and I can finally print the document in acceptable condition. Of course now the cyan is (from what it seems like by this informative image) back to 80% and yellow is getting dangerously close to being empty. So I bet it'll pull the same stunt next time there's anything to print.
The real solution here would of course be a copy shop and pay 20 cents, but there's no such thing in this little village within any reasonable distance.
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RE: "Le mobile multifonction"
In German the situation is reversed.
We love using English words so much (because it sounds modern?) that we come up with stupid English phrases for everything. Or let's say the ad industry and a few other idiots do, to the point that most old people have no idea what these ads are trying to say, even if it's ads targeted at them.The "German" word for mobile phone is "Mobiltelefon", but instead we use the term "Handy", because we thinks that's the English word for it. Most English speakers are quite surprised if you want to give them a handy.
Latest posts made by topspin
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RE: In other hostile takeover Tweets...
Is that shit even official? I mean, this could be any random crypto-bro moron. And nobody knows what the blue checkmark means anymore than Stallone does.
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RE: In other hostile takeover Tweets...
@loopback0 hopefully limited to 140 characters.
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RE: UI Bites
@ixvedeusi that's not just 2024. Microsoft has both deeply schizophrenic divisions and always acted as Rules for Thee, Not for Me. So much so that pointing it out anytime MS breaks those rules themselves is against Raymond's blog ground rules.
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RE: UI Bites
@Gern_Blaanston said in UI Bites:
But still ... How/why do you even do something like that?
How?
Magic says: Hiding the window borders, painting your own, and fucking upWM_NCHITTEST
.Why?
Because somebody got a nice bonus for it. -
RE: Is it a duck or a rabbit?
@hungrier said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
If it was just a matter of optical perception, I would expect the rest of the picture to have some (false) colour in it, but I only see the can as red
I can see other parts in the background as red, mostly the tracks and the buildings, just like in your white-balanced picture. Well, brown anyway. Same thing, really, but might explain why it's stronger for the can. If you look at your picture, there's other reddish things but the can is clearly the strongest.
So no, I doubt it's got much to do with pattern recognition. -
RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@BernieTheBernie but not matter how sloppy they are, they make damn sure nobody can smuggle in dangerous H2O. That would be catastrophic.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I just got an e-mail from Hyland Software's onboarding team.
Might be a typo from Hyderabad Software's onboarding team.
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RE: The Cat Status Thread
@DogsB said in The Cat Status Thread:
https://twitter.com/catshouldnt/status/1641457837376430085
OMG!
In this case, the grudge will last a lifetime.