This is why I left the IT dept : programmerhumor

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 89 points 1 year ago

[-] vicfic@iusearchlinux.fyi 20 points 1 year ago

HP is the worst.

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 year ago

Why is “jup” in German/Dutch/Swedish/Danish spelling?

Are you an undercover German?

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Jup.

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OH SHIT GET 'T LUCHTALARM /j

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[+] normanwall@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago

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[-] misterundercoat@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago

That guy is too smart, he'd better he careful. He'll be found dead at his desk after mysteriously choking on an HP cyan cartridge.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago

They wouldn't be so obvious.

They would just slowly replace all his blood with HP 952XL Magenta

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

That's an expensive way to kill someone. It'd probably be cheaper to pay for a hitman at the point.

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It's not about the money, it's about sending a message.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I did something similiar, I named all the printers with an esoteric naming scheme based on the OU and location, but completely indecipherable, and GPO reset the default printer every morning. That way the print was always released to a random printer that the user chose in utter bewilderment and confusion, so there was no chance any particular printer would see enough use that I'd have to change the toner in this decade.

Worked great.

[-] FedFer@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 1 year ago

Lawful good solution and chaotic good solution

[-] vicfic@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 1 year ago

imho, the new printers are pretty good. Like ever since the companies stopped the inkjet fiasco and switched over to the inktank thing, its been really smooth.

My experience with the Epson ecotank is pretty good.

[-] BaldProphet@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

HP is still the worst, though.

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only difference between HP and a 1930's Italian mob protection racket is they don't break your kneecaps yet

[-] vicfic@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, even their inktanks are unusable.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Software like papercut is the best.

[-] narshee@iusearchlinux.fyi 40 points 1 year ago

APAB

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

My HP laser printer is amazing, no drivers needed, lasts long on ink, connects to everything, I love it.

Sure it doesn't have colour printing, nor scanning, not Bluetooth. But the thing just works every single time!

[-] Yuuki2628@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Hello, printer driver developer here. I hate you all

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 19 points 1 year ago

Man, I just love the way you guys ignore basic exception handling, insist on using undocumented APIs, exclusively hook into system resources, fail to address even the most fundamental of good memory management practises and then demand your software runs as an unprotected kernel-level driver.

It's fucking great.

[-] Yuuki2628@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hey, you can blame my senior who did most of it and left this mess to me when he quit. I just pray everyday that nothing breaks since we don't even have internal documentation for this code and almost no comments whatsoever :)

I love my job :D

[-] erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

PC Load Letter

[-] cwinter@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

We can tell.

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

My Brother laser printer sends its regards.

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

Why tf do printers even need drivers? Where do they have to go? Why can't they get there by themselves?

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

CUPS my beloved

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

They usually have casters but they're pretty flimsy.

[-] unreachable@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

printer is one odd bunch of computing output devices

when other types of output devices (such as monitor display, hdmi, usb, etc) evolves and improved over decades, printer is bring so much little into the mix

[-] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

They evolved backwards. Back in the day you sent the raw text over the parallel port and it just printed it

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[-] Harpsist@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[-] cupcakezealot 12 points 1 year ago

Ripping the side holes off and putting them into a box so you have an entire box full of shredded paper sides

[-] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Also satisfying: folding two strips like this:

[-] Electricblush@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Quote me after dealing with print drivers acting up and spooler service crashes for the nth time that day (also worked in it support for several years):

"We can land men on the moon, but somehow getting a printer, a technology that has existed litteraly since before computers had screens, to work is still complete and utter black magic...!"

[-] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Printers are proof there's a God and that it thrives on our suffering.

[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Ink for the ink god, drivers for the driver throne.

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I never noticed, but it looks like the guy who took the photo got sprayed too.

[-] cupcakezealot 10 points 1 year ago

pc load letter?

[-] sp00nix@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

WTF does that mean?

[-] flicker@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I literally go to the copy place now and tell everyone I "don't know how" to work on printers.

Life is too short.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

#1 reason to go paperless at the office lol

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 8 points 1 year ago

Multifunction-Printers are even worse. If you got a decent one by chance, after 5 odd years the integrated server gets wonky and the usb controller starts randomizing MAC addresses, so you have to setup it anew each time. Those things are haunted!

[-] sp00nix@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

This may explain the issues I have at my buddies automotive shop... every few months all the PCs loose connection, then I have to uninstall all the drives and install them again. Fucking HP.

[-] jeebus@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I got volunteered to fix printer driver issue for a family member. The had one printer, and got another bcz the first one broke. New printer wouldn't work so they just kept installing the drivers. The software gladly let them. Thankfully only took 15 mins to fix, but I told them printers are for bitches, me and my home print at the library.

[-] rem26_art@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Printers are the worst!

[-] maniel@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

We have central printing with color Kyoceras on each floor, with black and white as default preset (pushed via GPO) we managed to decrease our printing expenses by 80%

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Hey it's me zebra...🔥🔥🔥🔥 oopsie

[-] RedReaper@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Printer and scanner drivers are going to be the death of me, I swear

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