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Thanks Ants posted:Why aren't the Hungarian hackers breaking John Deere DRM working on getting the standard HP firmware images onto their subscription printers John Deere hackers are Ukrainian. Also printers are WMD material.
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Thanks Ants posted:Why aren't the Hungarian hackers breaking John Deere DRM working on getting the standard HP firmware images onto their subscription printers Take one of those physical platforms, build some open source replacement control board based off a Cortex-M or RISC-V design, and then let a bunch of overseas vendors battle it out to build cheap clones just like what happened in the 3D printing world.
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Jul 12, 2023 19:44
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I would absolutely, 100% buy a clone of the LaserJet 4 for anyone who wanted a printer in my org. Those things would be hanging out with cockroaches and tardigrades at the heat death of the universe.
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Jul 12, 2023 22:48
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We just switched to a managed print subscription at my place and it's great. Printer's broken? Call the vendor and they'll send someone out to fix or replace it. Oops, print server went down? Forward the ticket to the one guy responsible for the print server. Now we only have to support things like users who don't know how to change their default printer, or don't know how to set it to double-sided or something.
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Jul 13, 2023 07:35
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Somehow, IT has managed to get a secure print system up and running and it just works. I've had very few problems with it since I started working here 1.5 years ago.
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Jul 13, 2023 07:53
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Knormal posted:We just switched to a managed print subscription at my place and it's great. Printer's broken? Call the vendor and they'll send someone out to fix or replace it. Oops, print server went down? Forward the ticket to the one guy responsible for the print server. Now we only have to support things like users who don't know how to change their default printer, or don't know how to set it to double-sided or something. We do the same with Xerox on campus. Its def pretty cool.
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Jul 13, 2023 13:01
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I don't remember the details on this setup or why the customer's router was in bridge mode, I think a contractor we don't use anymore for assorted clownery like this was to blame, but anyway once upon a time a managed printer guy setting something up for a customer managed to statically assign a public IP to a printer that belonged to a different customer and take them offline 
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Jul 13, 2023 13:31
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I have to upgrade my AIX print servers this summer and I'm really dreading it. 2 AIX LPARs running qdaemon that ships PCL right over the wire to target printers. It's ugly as gently caress, but it works for the very few things we print from that environment anymore. I was hoping to let them die on the vine, but they're going to stick around JUST long enough that I have to do something about them. I'm seriously considering just standing up new LPARs and shifting the configs over.
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Jul 13, 2023 13:59
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I've got a rescued HP Laserjet 1320n that was going to get tossed out of an office years ago. Its at 130,000+ pages and shows no signs of slowing down. They can build good printers that last, they just cant make as much money doing it that way and have instead decided to pivot to "Printing as a Service" with your own hardware that you already purchased.
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Jul 13, 2023 14:47
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Printers used to be good. Then enshittification became the business model of basically all IT companies.
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Jul 13, 2023 15:47
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Printers were never good
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Jul 13, 2023 16:21
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Yeah I was gonna say. At what time did you have in mind Like ... ImageWriter II era maybe
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Jul 13, 2023 16:23
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In all seriousness if you’re still printing stuff off and wasting paper and having these idiots continue to make printers you are part of the problem
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Jul 13, 2023 16:27
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i am a moron posted:In all seriousness if you’re still printing stuff off and wasting paper and having these idiots continue to make printers you are part of the problem We have to print off Fedex labels to send gear out to remote workers.
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Jul 13, 2023 16:28
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The Delta gates at the airports all apparently still use dot matrix printers stuffed into wall cubbyholes, I noticed on my trip last week
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Jul 13, 2023 16:30
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The best thing you can possibly buy if you only need to print shipping labels is a thermal transfer printer and a roll of precut adhesive labels. That industry seems broadly immune to building everything out of flimsy plastic, and nobody has tried to DRM the thermal ribbons because they understand you might need to use specialty inks.
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Jul 13, 2023 16:40
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i am a moron posted:In all seriousness if you’re still printing stuff off and wasting paper and having these idiots continue to make printers you are part of the problem
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Jul 13, 2023 19:00
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Indeed I have, thank you for reading my Ted X Talk
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AlexDeGruven posted:I have to upgrade my AIX print servers this summer and I'm really dreading it. Have you considered leaving before this comes due? It worked for me dodging some huge auth projects.
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xsf421 posted:Have you considered leaving before this comes due? It worked for me dodging some huge auth projects. lol, I mean, the clock is ticking already after last year's announcements, but I've got time and 2 juniors I can pawn most of the work off to.
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Arquinsiel posted:Printers used to be good. Then enshittification became the business model of basically all IT companies. Brother still makes solid laser gear, for anyone in the market. EDIT: The Washington Post is running an entire week of printer articles and calling it "Printer Week" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/10/printer-home-hacks-tips/ guppy fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Jul 14, 2023 |
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Data Graham posted:Yeah I was gonna say. At what time did you have in mind Honorable mention to the LaserJet 4250, as long as you didn't try to use it over that new-fangled USB port, which just didn't work.
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Jul 14, 2023 05:37
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Thanks Ants posted:The best thing you can possibly buy if you only need to print shipping labels is a thermal transfer printer and a roll of precut adhesive labels. That industry seems broadly immune to building everything out of flimsy plastic, and nobody has tried to DRM the thermal ribbons because they understand you might need to use specialty inks. I have bad news for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzSDJRC0F6c
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EpicCodeMonkey posted:I have bad news for you. Dymo has never made a decent printer in their company life. If you need a cheap thermal printer, Brother has the QL series(only consumable is the rolls), otherwise you can jump onto the industrial brands like Zebra (Dymo is smb/prosumer stuff) where even a used one has plenty of life to offer.
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Yeah I'm talking about the Zebra and Honeywell level of products. Once you're doing a decent volume the ability to use any roll media you can source and printing with thermal transfer outweighs the initial higher cost of the printer, and also you don't have any problems of heat making your label turn black.
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I work in local government. The third party application we use to run all the courtrooms and jail records has a critical bug with the latest version of Office apps. Vendor says they’re not fixing it anytime soon. I spent the last two weeks getting everyone downgraded to a previous version; thankfully the Office Deployment Tool can downgrade without much fuss. Today we're finding out that the Office version required to use our courtroom app has a huge bug where it crashes when opening more than one file from OneDrive. The fix as recommended by MS is to update to the latest version. Which is again incompatible with our app. loving hell.
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Sunblood posted:I work in local government. The third party application we use to run all the courtrooms and jail records has a critical bug with the latest version of Office apps. Vendor says they’re not fixing it anytime soon. I spent the last two weeks getting everyone downgraded to a previous version; thankfully the Office Deployment Tool can downgrade without much fuss. I'll take a wild guess that the support contract for that mission critical software has a SLA inbetween "lol, lmao" and " go gently caress yourself".
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It's sector-specific bespoke software so the support contract probably costs the GDP of a small country and every bug report is treated like a change request with its own contract and price tag.
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Thanks Ants posted:It's sector-specific bespoke software so the support contract probably costs the GDP of a small country and every bug report is treated like a change request with its own contract and price tag. Eh, if it's software for medium to small government it's usually a badly negotiated tender, where adding the proper level of support would have costed 1% of the overall software tender. Please don't ask me how i know 
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Weedle posted:are you loving serious? what are the model numbers so we know to never buy them "HP" Just don't buy any of them.
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Girlfriend emailed her doctor's office some paperwork for an upcoming appointment. She got a reply asking her to fax it instead because it was "getting cut off" when trying to print it from the email. I recommended she find a new doctor.
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Knormal posted:We just switched to a managed print subscription at my place and it's great. Printer's broken? Call the vendor and they'll send someone out to fix or replace it. Oops, print server went down? Forward the ticket to the one guy responsible for the print server. Now we only have to support things like users who don't know how to change their default printer, or don't know how to set it to double-sided or something. We have this, it would be better if our finance team actually PAID the contracts so that when there's a problem and we call the company they aren't like "lol you didn't pay, no support"; there's also multiple contracts depending on when we leased/bought the printer(s) instead of co-terming everything.
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Last week while I was out apparently the company was delivering a new printer and dropped it four feet off the back of the truck, then tried to give it to the office anyway. So it's definitely not an entirely painless solution and still requires some degree of dealing with another company's customer support at times.
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https://twitter.com/hilare_belloc/status/1683797122628321280?s=46&t=dQl6Iu6Wmq7antcZ30Prgw
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got to see that unfold live in the secfuck thread, it was fun
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some aftermathstoopidmunkey posted:it was performed by a third party and apparently I made someone cry. my boss thinks it’s hilarious.
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I just came to add that. What a ride lmao
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lmao The gall to send it to someone's personal phone too. They deserved what they got.
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lmao
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The Fool posted:some aftermath stoopidmunkey posted:it was performed by a third party and apparently I made someone cry. my boss thinks it’s hilarious. I like to imagine Juliet gets to the office at 8:05 AM, sits down with her first cup of coffee, and begins to read responses to yesterday's phishing attempts. Suddenly, she's sobbing.
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