lasers are awesome, basically the same tech as old school photostat, they work on the principle of electrostatic induction of ionisation of a surface that then pulls toner particles to it, and then a heater that melts the toner dust so it is stuck to the paper... the original tech just used lenses and an ultraviolet light and the drump that the image-and-dust stick to, and all that laser printers changed was using a laser to paint that image like a CRT but slow

inkjets are incredibly complex technology in comparison, needlessly

the older i get the clearer it becomes that the reason why there is Lindy is because once something is efficient and simple enough you don't need to fundamentally change it

the exponential complexity of the "better" technologies annihilates all of the benefits because of the increased instability of its underpinnings

unix is an example of this... those dudes built a thing that has stood the test of time to the point where the majority of computers now use it as their base layer, STILL

even if a lot of dumbasses have tried to change some layers we stil can rely on cp, mount, rm, netcat, and the rest

i would really like to see a linux distro that strips it right back to bare essentials and then makes the other shit more modular and simple to pop in and pop out

the whole basis of the /usr/local directory tree has been forgotten, there should be dozens of them, this would solve so many problems for layering... you can almost say that what apple did with the application bundling system was basically tantamount to making a folder for each user installed system wide app in /usr/

I moved to laser and will never go back to inkjet, plus the scam prices for new cartridges by manufacturers

modern inkjet printers are the work of the devil

yes, inkjets arguably have their place in high resolution printing, especially for color images

that doesn’t mean shit if the printer keeps clogging instead of using the bare minimum amount of ink every few days to prevent clogs when unused, having the problem of non user serviceable waste ink sponges + print heads for tank printers, expensive af cartridges, and DRM on those

something composed of a dumb print head, two motors, a paper feeder and a sponge apparently has to be so fucked

i hate zfs, from the deepest, bottomest part of my heart, and also my fingers and eyeballs and every part of my body

i promise to never install an installation while the current, interface breaking dumbassedeness of this filesystem's interface, continues to exist

ever heard of "mount" and "blkid" yeah... fuck you, you don't work with that, you ain't no fucking filesystem, you are an abomination pretending to be better, after 20 years still not getting this most elementary thing right

Fuck you Adobe. And I'll never come back because of this scum business practice.

yeah, i wouldn't even consider putting swap on that garbage... if i was ever to use that hardware i'd plug a USB-3 NVMe external drive into it for the boot device, assuming there is a model that has at least a 5gbit USB interface, otherwise that just rules the entire thing out

there is plenty of other SoCs out there that you can use that do have both 10Gbit+ USB and NVMe interfaces, i wouldn't even consider the standard rPi for anything to be honest... i have a HP G3 mini and it's pretty great, has both sata 6gbit and a ~4gb/s SATA interface AND two DP outputs AND a usb-c with DP capability... cost me 140 euros, there is just no sane reason to spend any less on such a device, throw another 150 euros for a 2Tb nvme device and a 70 euro UPS and you have everything you need for a competent lightning node except maybe a reliable backup network connection

this is why most default linux installers make at least a 2gb swap file

android has an activities based user input driven multitasking app state persistence scheme, it's one of the nice things about android... to be honest, if someone really had a proper crack at making a desktop focused android i'd probably be interested in trying it

in any case, most desktop machines have way too much memory *and* massive, fast flash storage that you never see OOM kills

i just noticed one on my relay just now, so i'm gonna have to start poking at its memory utilization

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