Laser printer... No clogged heads, dried ink, etc....
While old HP Laserjets are legendary, even my clearance model 5 year old Samsung Monochrome laser all in one is great when I need to print off the very rare printout... I still have the original ream of paper I bought with it.
That was the last printer I bought. I've had good luck with a couple low end Samsung Monochrome lasers before it.
Can you imagine a carpenter who got a hammer that would only hammer mastercraft nails? Or a hammer that regularly missed the nail regardless of your skill with a hammer?
What would you expect from a Mastercrap hammer? You know you bought it from Crappy Tire right?
Back when DVD burners were all the rage, and Hard drives expensive, I remember copying DVDs from the Library or video store for my personal collection. I always thought it was funny with DVDShrink / DVDDecrypter how in a couple clicks I could create a copy of the movie to burn on a single layer disc with the options of: a) Disabling prohibited operations so you can FF through anything b) Deleting previews / etc so the feature film won't have to be shrunk as much.
Software is the same. I always like to point out to people when the pirated copies are more convenient. Eg: not having to worry about activation with a hardware change.
Some TV networks allow some limited streaming capability on their website / app, but that's no good when I want an offline copy to watch (on train / plane, or at the gym). The sites are usually a pain to navigate. Meanwhile I can easily: -Go to my favorite Torrent search site -Enter the show title -Find and select the desired episode / resolution in the list -Open Torrent in QBittorrent -Wait less than 5 minutes for episode to download. -Do whatever I want with the downloaded copy.
They've been going downhill for years. Ever since they made that move away from DVDS towards online the collection has been getting worse and worse. I think they'll have no problem hitting that 50-50 goal as the amount of 3rd party materials continues to disappear.
The fact that their search and browse facilities are so terrible doesn't do anything good. There's no particularly good way of stumbling on interesting content that they aren't pushing. And the material they're pushing is often times no interest to me. And good luck with search. I'll usually have to search for a half dozen things before I find one that they actually have. And sometimes I've had to look for a dozen.
This is about my experience. I have to get suggestions from friends or online... All the "Recommendations" are titles I've already watched. Trying to browse through categories makes one think they only have about 20 titles in each category.
They could try doing what Sirius XM did in radio, and attract existing talent to their programs and channels. A lot of people are attracted to legacy shows, and are not always swayed by the latest hits on TV
That's one of many reasons I cancelled Sirius. I don't care to have a bunch of has-beens announcing songs. Do I need to hear the Ashtray Nina Blackwood announcing song titles? That's what the display is for.
Other reasons include: -Shallow playlist. As an example 80s on 8 make you thing 867-5309 was the only song in the 80's... I liked the "countdown from this week in 198x" not because of the announcers, but because I heard songs I never heard before -Ads on ad-free radio. "Listen to The Superbowl on channel 856". Fuckoff, If I wanted to listen to the Superbowl I would have tuned in already. -Starting to charge for online listening.
If anyone listens to SiriusXM, I hope you aren't paying full price. Call to cancel and you should get ~$5/month for at least 6 months. They should offer at least two levels of offers. Complain enough and you get free online listening.
Instant Ink might also be worth it for a lot of edge to edge photos, since you pay by page. You might as well get more than 5% coverage.
Obviously I'm no Linux Guru, but I'm sure you can easily get Linux to redirect scanner input to Printer output (regardless of "email capability"). Systemd or emacs might be able to do it these days.
If you want a barebones Postscript printer, look for an HP Laserjet 5 series or less. You can probably take one that was left in a dumpster in the rain with over 500,000 pages, and it will work better than anything you can buy new.
Oh and since it's a usage based service, and I assume they aren't in business to lose money, they're probably banking on people to either: -Not use all the prints they are paying for -Use more than they paid for and pay overages.
I gave up on Inkjets at home 12 years ago or so. We had a Deskjet 3820, which was ok (cartridges were easy to refill). But eventually it failed from a notorious failing gear. No parts available from HP, so to the dump it went. Subsequently they offered to replace these faulty printers, but it was too late for us.
Anyways, we moved to a low end Samsung ML-1740, which was great for the majority of school reports, etc that needed to be printed. Never gave any grief.
5 years ago I got a Samsung all in one SCX-4300 for $50 on a clearance sale. It's been great. Mostly used only for the scanner, I've probably printed less than 100 pages on it, but it's great to have for the very occasional prints, and I don't have to worry about the ink drying out.
I don't use it, but my take on Instant Ink: -They use higher end Inkjets (like business class Officejets), not the shitty free ones they bundle with PCs at Bestbuy. -You pay per page, not per cartridge, so it's in their interest to not have to replace cartridges as often.
A lot of prints can be done in Monochrome. For that I still think a good, basic Monochrome Laser is best. We've had the Laserjet 5000 in our office for 15 years with very few problems. I've been using basic Samsung lasers at home with good luck too.
Most residential fridges are rated for ambient temperatures between 10C - 32C. The first issue is the control issue you mention, the second is the efficiency of the refrigeration cycle, and possible lubrication issues. Most solve this issue by installing their fridge inside a climate controlled living area (like a kitchen). There are some "garage kits" for fridges that are a heater to trick the thermostat in the fridge section. You may also need a heater to keep the compressor and refrigerant warm (and gaseous).
My current fridge-freezer only has one thermostat, with no way of separately controlling the freezer. I live in Canada where it gets to -25C outside, but my kitchen doesn't go below 15C, and I haven't had any problems with stuff thawing in the freezer. Some dampers may be thermostatically controlled, some may just be a simple damper.
My 25 year old fridge is pretty simple. Mechanical thermostat + self defrost. In 25 years will today's IoT fridge still be relevant? Will it be like trying to get online with Windows 3.1?
While I like technology, I subscribe to the KISS principle. The simplest solution is usually the best. In the case of home appliances, they usually seem to work better with basic mechanical timers than fancy electronics... let-alone foolishness like Internet connectivity.
Meanwhile there's other cases where they duplicated the basic functionality of a 3rd party feature, but didn't prevent people from running better third party features.
Versions since XP have had basic ZIP support, and CD Burning support. Windows 7 added a better screen capture tool Windows 8 let you mount and burn ISOs
I don't think they're going to extinguish by duplicating a f.lux. It's by no means a market driver.
Can it adjust the color temperature in one quick step change? The thing that annoys me about f.lux is it ramps the color temperature over like 30 seconds, during which my PC isn't very responsive.
Stick to what works I suppose - make - model - trim level.
Chevy Impala LS Pontiac G8 GT
Impala is a well known model name, memorable no doubt to people over several generations. Even I own an unremarkable 2002 Imapa LS - memorable to me because its first car I bought in the US, the car I bought my first (and so far only) daughter home from hospital in, the car that towed all out shit in a 5x8 UHAUL from Alaska to Seattle in 4 days.
Not to be confused with the recently discontinued the Chevy Impala Limited LS. Which really meant it was a 2012 Impala, still sold alongside the new Impala, to minimize confusion. Much like the Malibu classics.
I just use the OEM system in my car. It doesn't have Bluetooth or USB, but it does have Aux-in. However it's a pain every time you get in the car to set up the phone, so I have a couple MP3-CD-RWs. It's also interesting how hard it is to source CD-RWs these days. The ones I got off Amazon were new-old stock, and I had to do a full wipe of them before writing data to them.
The -RWs are good because I've had to rewrite them a couple times. For example ImgBurn defaults to ISO9660+UDF, so the car was showing 8.3 file names, so I rewrote it as Joilet and all was good. I was also going to start doing more Podcasts for long drives, so it would be good to reuse discs.
I've seen people say opposing things about CD-RWs, and I don't know what the truth is. Personally I haven't had any CD-RWs fail, even cheap no name ones that sit in the car through hot, cold, and humidity. I think most of their bad reputation came from using them with crappy packet writing formats.
I have seen OLD CD-RWs (that were sitting untouched for years) give errors when re-written, but that can be fixed by doing a full erase first, and a verify after.
I always understood they said if they wanted to shutdown the activation servers, they would "release the keys", not that that would happen automatically at the end of the support period. As an example, Microsoft released a "sunset" edition of Money plus when they wanted to shutdown the activation servers for it.
While I'm always interested in finding movies to add to my watch list, all too often I find previews ruin the movie by showing the best action scenes, and key plot points.
I usually enjoy movies most when I'm invited to one by a friend, but know little about it.
I created an image to deploy on shared workstations, using Firefox as the browser.
Set history to delete at close, disabled password saving nags, hid useless Pocket and hello icons, disable their wretched PDF viewer, added uBlock, set search to Google, etc. Thought I had everything good to go.
Deploy the image on a new machine a couple months later... "You haven't used Firefox in a while. Would you like to Refresh the settings, losing all the customization you added?"
Why the fuck do they keep coming up with new features that just annoy you? Why do plugins feel they have to launch their webpage every time they're updated? Why can't the browser just get out of the way?
I think the card itself is either Chip and Signature, or Chip and PIN.
When I travel to the US, and use chip enabled terminals, they want a PIN, not a signature. However I think US banks are typically issuing Chip and Signature cards. Also frequently the very first time I use a new card, even in Canada, it wants a signature. Thereafter it uses PIN.
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Laser printer... No clogged heads, dried ink, etc....
While old HP Laserjets are legendary, even my clearance model 5 year old Samsung Monochrome laser all in one is great when I need to print off the very rare printout... I still have the original ream of paper I bought with it.
That was the last printer I bought. I've had good luck with a couple low end Samsung Monochrome lasers before it.
Can you imagine a carpenter who got a hammer that would only hammer mastercraft nails? Or a hammer that regularly missed the nail regardless of your skill with a hammer?
What would you expect from a Mastercrap hammer? You know you bought it from Crappy Tire right?
Moving the switch on the clock radio two clicks to the right works as well.
Or setting the alarm on your phone earlier in the day when you had your glasses on and weren't concerned about Melatonin.
Back when DVD burners were all the rage, and Hard drives expensive, I remember copying DVDs from the Library or video store for my personal collection. I always thought it was funny with DVDShrink / DVDDecrypter how in a couple clicks I could create a copy of the movie to burn on a single layer disc with the options of:
a) Disabling prohibited operations so you can FF through anything
b) Deleting previews / etc so the feature film won't have to be shrunk as much.
Software is the same. I always like to point out to people when the pirated copies are more convenient. Eg: not having to worry about activation with a hardware change.
Some TV networks allow some limited streaming capability on their website / app, but that's no good when I want an offline copy to watch (on train / plane, or at the gym). The sites are usually a pain to navigate. Meanwhile I can easily:
-Go to my favorite Torrent search site
-Enter the show title
-Find and select the desired episode / resolution in the list
-Open Torrent in QBittorrent
-Wait less than 5 minutes for episode to download.
-Do whatever I want with the downloaded copy.
They've been going downhill for years. Ever since they made that move away from DVDS towards online the collection has been getting worse and worse. I think they'll have no problem hitting that 50-50 goal as the amount of 3rd party materials continues to disappear.
The fact that their search and browse facilities are so terrible doesn't do anything good. There's no particularly good way of stumbling on interesting content that they aren't pushing. And the material they're pushing is often times no interest to me. And good luck with search. I'll usually have to search for a half dozen things before I find one that they actually have. And sometimes I've had to look for a dozen.
This is about my experience. I have to get suggestions from friends or online... All the "Recommendations" are titles I've already watched. Trying to browse through categories makes one think they only have about 20 titles in each category.
They could try doing what Sirius XM did in radio, and attract existing talent to their programs and channels. A lot of people are attracted to legacy shows, and are not always swayed by the latest hits on TV
That's one of many reasons I cancelled Sirius. I don't care to have a bunch of has-beens announcing songs. Do I need to hear the Ashtray Nina Blackwood announcing song titles? That's what the display is for.
Other reasons include:
-Shallow playlist. As an example 80s on 8 make you thing 867-5309 was the only song in the 80's... I liked the "countdown from this week in 198x" not because of the announcers, but because I heard songs I never heard before
-Ads on ad-free radio. "Listen to The Superbowl on channel 856". Fuckoff, If I wanted to listen to the Superbowl I would have tuned in already.
-Starting to charge for online listening.
If anyone listens to SiriusXM, I hope you aren't paying full price. Call to cancel and you should get ~$5/month for at least 6 months. They should offer at least two levels of offers. Complain enough and you get free online listening.
Instant Ink might also be worth it for a lot of edge to edge photos, since you pay by page. You might as well get more than 5% coverage.
Obviously I'm no Linux Guru, but I'm sure you can easily get Linux to redirect scanner input to Printer output (regardless of "email capability"). Systemd or emacs might be able to do it these days.
If you want a barebones Postscript printer, look for an HP Laserjet 5 series or less. You can probably take one that was left in a dumpster in the rain with over 500,000 pages, and it will work better than anything you can buy new.
Oh and since it's a usage based service, and I assume they aren't in business to lose money, they're probably banking on people to either:
-Not use all the prints they are paying for
-Use more than they paid for and pay overages.
I gave up on Inkjets at home 12 years ago or so. We had a Deskjet 3820, which was ok (cartridges were easy to refill). But eventually it failed from a notorious failing gear. No parts available from HP, so to the dump it went. Subsequently they offered to replace these faulty printers, but it was too late for us.
Anyways, we moved to a low end Samsung ML-1740, which was great for the majority of school reports, etc that needed to be printed. Never gave any grief.
5 years ago I got a Samsung all in one SCX-4300 for $50 on a clearance sale. It's been great. Mostly used only for the scanner, I've probably printed less than 100 pages on it, but it's great to have for the very occasional prints, and I don't have to worry about the ink drying out.
I don't use it, but my take on Instant Ink:
-They use higher end Inkjets (like business class Officejets), not the shitty free ones they bundle with PCs at Bestbuy.
-You pay per page, not per cartridge, so it's in their interest to not have to replace cartridges as often.
A lot of prints can be done in Monochrome. For that I still think a good, basic Monochrome Laser is best. We've had the Laserjet 5000 in our office for 15 years with very few problems. I've been using basic Samsung lasers at home with good luck too.
Most residential fridges are rated for ambient temperatures between 10C - 32C. The first issue is the control issue you mention, the second is the efficiency of the refrigeration cycle, and possible lubrication issues. Most solve this issue by installing their fridge inside a climate controlled living area (like a kitchen). There are some "garage kits" for fridges that are a heater to trick the thermostat in the fridge section. You may also need a heater to keep the compressor and refrigerant warm (and gaseous).
My current fridge-freezer only has one thermostat, with no way of separately controlling the freezer. I live in Canada where it gets to -25C outside, but my kitchen doesn't go below 15C, and I haven't had any problems with stuff thawing in the freezer. Some dampers may be thermostatically controlled, some may just be a simple damper.
Usually with the dual thermostats one of them is just a damper controlling how much air gets blown into the fridge from the freezer.
My 25 year old fridge is pretty simple. Mechanical thermostat + self defrost. In 25 years will today's IoT fridge still be relevant? Will it be like trying to get online with Windows 3.1?
While I like technology, I subscribe to the KISS principle. The simplest solution is usually the best. In the case of home appliances, they usually seem to work better with basic mechanical timers than fancy electronics... let-alone foolishness like Internet connectivity.
Does that mean if people keep using the phrase "I could care less", then the words could and couldn't officially switch meaning?
Meanwhile there's other cases where they duplicated the basic functionality of a 3rd party feature, but didn't prevent people from running better third party features.
Versions since XP have had basic ZIP support, and CD Burning support.
Windows 7 added a better screen capture tool
Windows 8 let you mount and burn ISOs
I don't think they're going to extinguish by duplicating a f.lux. It's by no means a market driver.
Can it adjust the color temperature in one quick step change? The thing that annoys me about f.lux is it ramps the color temperature over like 30 seconds, during which my PC isn't very responsive.
Stick to what works I suppose - make - model - trim level.
Chevy Impala LS
Pontiac G8 GT
Impala is a well known model name, memorable no doubt to people over several generations. Even I own an unremarkable 2002 Imapa LS - memorable to me because its first car I bought in the US, the car I bought my first (and so far only) daughter home from hospital in, the car that towed all out shit in a 5x8 UHAUL from Alaska to Seattle in 4 days.
Not to be confused with the recently discontinued the Chevy Impala Limited LS. Which really meant it was a 2012 Impala, still sold alongside the new Impala, to minimize confusion. Much like the Malibu classics.
I just use the OEM system in my car. It doesn't have Bluetooth or USB, but it does have Aux-in. However it's a pain every time you get in the car to set up the phone, so I have a couple MP3-CD-RWs. It's also interesting how hard it is to source CD-RWs these days. The ones I got off Amazon were new-old stock, and I had to do a full wipe of them before writing data to them.
The -RWs are good because I've had to rewrite them a couple times. For example ImgBurn defaults to ISO9660+UDF, so the car was showing 8.3 file names, so I rewrote it as Joilet and all was good. I was also going to start doing more Podcasts for long drives, so it would be good to reuse discs.
Shame that they never put a DVD drive in these cars. Instead of a 700MB MP3-CD, you could have a 4.7GB MP3-DVD.
I've seen people say opposing things about CD-RWs, and I don't know what the truth is. Personally I haven't had any CD-RWs fail, even cheap no name ones that sit in the car through hot, cold, and humidity. I think most of their bad reputation came from using them with crappy packet writing formats.
I have seen OLD CD-RWs (that were sitting untouched for years) give errors when re-written, but that can be fixed by doing a full erase first, and a verify after.
I always understood they said if they wanted to shutdown the activation servers, they would "release the keys", not that that would happen automatically at the end of the support period. As an example, Microsoft released a "sunset" edition of Money plus when they wanted to shutdown the activation servers for it.
While I'm always interested in finding movies to add to my watch list, all too often I find previews ruin the movie by showing the best action scenes, and key plot points.
I usually enjoy movies most when I'm invited to one by a friend, but know little about it.
Population of US is 323,341,000
Population of Norway is 5,214,900
0.0077% of the US is Norwegian-born
0.17% of Norway is US born.
Looks like more people trying to get to Norway.
I created an image to deploy on shared workstations, using Firefox as the browser.
Set history to delete at close, disabled password saving nags, hid useless Pocket and hello icons, disable their wretched PDF viewer, added uBlock, set search to Google, etc. Thought I had everything good to go.
Deploy the image on a new machine a couple months later... "You haven't used Firefox in a while. Would you like to Refresh the settings, losing all the customization you added?"
Why the fuck do they keep coming up with new features that just annoy you? Why do plugins feel they have to launch their webpage every time they're updated? Why can't the browser just get out of the way?
I think the card itself is either Chip and Signature, or Chip and PIN.
When I travel to the US, and use chip enabled terminals, they want a PIN, not a signature. However I think US banks are typically issuing Chip and Signature cards. Also frequently the very first time I use a new card, even in Canada, it wants a signature. Thereafter it uses PIN.