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Re:You Too Could Have Made Curl by Maken on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @08:37AM (#41719919)
Harder than getting printers to print?
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Re:You Too Could Have Made Curl by eka1 on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @09:35AM (#41720510)
Typically, you aren't trying to print in front of a large audience
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Re:You Too Could Have Made Curl by trustno2 on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @09:07AM (#41720197)
Hey that's what we get CUPS auto-discovery for.
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Re:You Too Could Have Made Curl by Propelloni on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @09:53AM (#41720692)
Good one!
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Re:You Too Could Have Made Curl by high_na_euv on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @09:33AM (#41720481)
It is unreal how tech as mature as printers is so fucking unreliable
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Re:You Too Could Have Made Curl by bigstrat2003 on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @12:18PM (#41722182)
Depends on the printer. I still remember the LaserJet 4000 series with great fondness. They were absolute tanks that almost never broke. You did have to replace wear items like rollers, but that was it.
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Re:You Too Could Have Made Curl by makeitdouble on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @10:12AM (#41720868)
Arguably it still hasn't matured yet. Or at least it's nowhere near to be a solved problem and we'll probably sidestep it before ever coming up with a real solution.

I'd put it in the same bucket as TODO lists. After centuries we're still not set.

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Re:You Too Could Have Made Curl by mschuster91 on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @08:40AM (#41719942)
At least printers give you some sort of error message.

EDID negotiation or signal integrity issues in HDMI, good luck diagnosing actual causes without highly specialized (and expensive...) equipment.

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Re:You Too Could Have Made Curl by npongratz on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @11:57AM (#41721957)
> At least printers give you some sort of error message.

Inscrutable, and infamous, though they may be:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_LOAD_LETTER

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