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Re:Police claims to have fingerprinted computer based on pri... by oneoff786 on Friday May 13, 2022 @07:44AM (#31366227)
I had to chuckle at the first part.

Ah yes, I see they’re using the default formatting options. That narrows down our search to 99.9999% of the population.

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Re:Police claims to have fingerprinted computer based on pri... by dagw on Friday May 13, 2022 @08:16AM (#31366565)
Letter paper size isn't the default paper size for most Windows computers in Norway, so that could be something.
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Re:Police claims to have fingerprinted computer based on pri... by iampivot on Friday May 13, 2022 @11:29AM (#31368902)
It's however the default size for most printer drivers, so it's often selected as default when trying to print for the first time.
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Re:Police claims to have fingerprinted computer based on pri... by bombcar on Friday May 13, 2022 @01:39PM (#31370449)
Huh you'd think Windows EU edition or whatever would be smart enough to default to A4.
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Re:Police claims to have fingerprinted computer based on pri... by moistly on Friday May 13, 2022 @01:43PM (#31370492)
Europe doesn’t use letter-sized paper, they use A4. I rather doubt that printer drivers installed on a Norwegian computer default to an unusable paper size.
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Re:Police claims to have fingerprinted computer based on pri... by vegardlarsen on Friday May 13, 2022 @02:01PM (#31370703)
We use the same printers and printer drivers as everyone else in the world. So it does actually default to Letter, and you usually have to change it upon first install. I guess it all comes down to who wrote the printer driver.
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Re:Police claims to have fingerprinted computer based on pri... by cure on Friday May 13, 2022 @05:31PM (#31372731)
I have news for you - the "PC LOAD LETTER" meme works all around the world. Printers and drivers a generally quite dumb about this, and default to Letter format (and this does not make any sense, obviously).
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