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The FOSS community should work on a firmware-replacement solution like OpenWRT on routers, but for printers! Call it something like OpenPrint? It would be based on Linux!

It would unlock a printer’s potential and cancel out the cartridge DRM, continue printing regardless of unused ink color levels for the job, be totally freed from proprietary corporate bloatware that comes bundled with the printer, offer integration with personal cloud services (wanna scan that document? Boom, now it’s on your NextCloud RAID NAS, your iPhone, and your grandmother’s desktop), and other quality of life printer features that would significantly improve a country’s happiness and life expectancy.

It’s going to be a crapshoot at first. Printer drivers are a nightmare to write for each and every model. Hardware requirements to make this work are probably going to be limited to the most expensive and fastest octa-core printers. But a jailbreak community will emerge, and people will try to push the movement onto more and more printers, and develop workarounds for older models. Then, someone will develop a printer that ships only with OpenPrint, which will probably be kinda expensive at first, but all the parts will be user-replaceable, and the ink/toner will still be cheap to refill, which is the main goal. Big Printer would have to compete to make their printers more user-friendly, or die from the weight of their own greed.

I wanna believe ~♥

The orange always brings out the worst in one

Siri still struggles with toggling my lights with voice commands, after nearly 8 years of tearful screaming at my HomePod.

I want to see 1 Infinite Loop transformed into a giant toilet.

THE JOY OF NOT BEING RECOMMENDED ANYTHING

Study the weak points, make true your aim. The inevitable human-robot war draws nearer.

A cost worth cutting nonetheless

“Allegedly” and “reportedly” are magic words that keeps the lawyers away, since no media company actually wants the liability of being an authoritative source of information.

I have a small zip bag of 100+ of these in a drawer. Sometimes you gotta pop out a SIM card. Other times you gotta hit a pinhole reset button to fix a rogue router. In a pinch, they’re also a good shiv or shank.

my dopamine receptors are smoldering

A smart TV nowadays should only be treated as a computer monitor loaded with a bloated, spyware-ridden OSD.

I’ve connected a Samsung and a Roku TV to my WiFi one time, and they each routinely make hundreds of thousands of advertisement and data collection requests over the network daily.

Take advantage of the deals if you must get a TV, but never connect it to the internet, only navigate the UI to switch display inputs, use external devices only, and always, always, always turn off motion-interpolation!

I haven’t had streamslop subs in years.

Been sailing the seven seas ever since, and I’m watching it all burn from the crow’s nest.

This review would have had a lot more credibility if he at least disclosed his affiliation with Plex. Instead, he posed as some unbiased rando while advertising Plex Pass. This is textbook gaslighting.

If you look on Plex’s review page in the Play Store, it’s receiving overwhelming amounts of negative reviews over the new UI changes, reliability/performance problems, and how the Lifetime Plex Pass purchase is a lifetime of regrets as they watch Plex getting worse every month by enshittifying itself.

If Plex is resorting to leaving fake reviews to save face, then this company is in deeper trouble than I thought.

I’d like to say their legalese is written in a way that covers more ground in the US, the most litigious country in the world. I would imagine if this was taken to court, their lawyers would argue that “permanently unusable in whole or in part” includes a console serial ban from NSO, or argue that it’s the user’s fault for bricking the console when they attempted to mod it, and Nintendo is therefore not liable or obligated to fix it.

But between the UK-ToS and US-ToS, Nintendo just straight up tells Americans that they themselves are going to break your damn console if you do a thing they don’t like. That is absolutely dystopian.

What is your ISP? That is absolutely cooked if they’re blocking The Internet Archive.

Go to your router/gateway settings and set the DNS addresses to something other than what your ISP sets as default. I’d suggest Mullvad or Cloudflare. Check your phone and laptop’s WiFi settings and make sure they can automatically set the DNS to what your router provides.

Why throw the kids in the slammer? So they can eventually come back out as hardened criminals and contribute to the recidivism statistics, further circling society down the drain because they were betrayed by the corporations that injected their explosive products into our tax-funded school systems? They should give the TikTok kids full STEM scholarships for exposing these dangerous design flaws!

Hold the Chromebook manufacturer liable for the unsafe hardware design flaw with no overcurrent protection, hold the school liable for recklessly issuing these dangerous laptops that cheaped out on safety features, and hold Google liable for neglecting power handling in their Chromebook software! Get the CPSC on the phone and get every single Flamebook recalled across the nation!

It’s outrageous, egregious, preposterous!

It’s prohibitively difficult to establish municipal broadband. Much, if not all of the infrastructure used for internet in the US is privately owned.

Hundreds of billions of tax dollars were once given to these ISPs to establish fiber networks all over the land, and it’s still sparsely used outside of major cities-- in favor of milking older copper lines with cable/DSL for as long as possible. None of them are working on expanding access or improving infrastructure, simply because they don’t find it profitable to do so.

The ISPs have carved out their own little fiefdoms across counties and regions, and effectively act as a cartel with all of the steadily increasing prices and no actual competition in their territories.

The way it’s set up now, there has to be lengthy lawsuits and decades of legal teeth-pulling for the state to take it all back for public broadband. Aggressive ISP lobbying has made it all practically impossible with restrictive laws and outright bans. These little wins now are merely temporary concessions that the telecom mob will be certain to undo as soon as they inject another corporate shill into the government ranks.

Sometimes memes are the only way we know how to cope

Won’t somebody please think of the advertisers??

Is it true that most, if not all, books in DPRK were written by your Dear Leaders?