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Even paper glows (lemmy.world)
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[-] Rinox@feddit.it 63 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure this measure was requested either by the government or some big three letter agency.

I doubt that, if all printers were manufactured by a government monopoly, you wouldn't have this shit baked in. It would probably be way worse

[-] intrepid@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 years ago

I'm not at all asking for a government monopoly on making printers, if that wasn't clear.

[-] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 49 points 2 years ago
[-] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 years ago

Use the 3D printer to make the 2D printer. Finally, we are moving in the right direction.

[-] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

You can tape a pen to your 3d printer to use it as a plotter.

[-] franklin@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Honestly, yes. I love open source hardware

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

It's insufferable how people will respond to "We shouldn't let corporations do this" with "OK SO YOU WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO DO IT?!?!"

[-] Pandemanium@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

It's insufferable that the answer is always "build your own." Lemmy assumes that every single person on the planet is an engineer with enough free time to design, build, and troubleshoot every device they own.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's based in rugged hypercapitalist bootstrap thinking. If something is broken just do it yourself! Even though that's never realistic, and even if it were, no one person can or should be expected to do everything.

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 20 points 2 years ago

It was requested by the secret service as a countermeasure for counterfitting. More frequently it's been used to "catch other criminals", at least that's what they say.

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