DoGeeseSeeGod@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 25 days agoMy dearest Lemmy, what is the appliance you have the most beef with?message-squaremessage-square291linkfedilinkarrow-up1188arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1183arrow-down1message-squareMy dearest Lemmy, what is the appliance you have the most beef with?DoGeeseSeeGod@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 25 days agomessage-square291linkfedilinkfile-text
The appliance that elicits anger and frustrated at it’s mere sight. The treacherous device that never worked right.
minus-squareAllerolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-224 days agoI really cannot believe we fucked printers in so many unique ways. No universal drivers and software support, requiring entire settings pages to be about printers DRM everywhere, rendering third party cartridges useless Routinely bad security, making Wi-Fi enabled printers one of the common attack vectors Etc. etc.
minus-squareToes♀@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·24 days agoMy favourite bad security thing about them is that it’s possible to hack them with a fake fax.
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·23 days agoHpLJ4 was a wonderful beast. Having said that, “print drivers” need to be “I’m gonna blow a PDF onto your port 9100 and you better make the things go on the goddamned paper or you fail and it’s the wood chipper for you”. I’m tired of everything else.
I really cannot believe we fucked printers in so many unique ways.
Etc. etc.
My favourite bad security thing about them is that it’s possible to hack them with a fake fax.
HpLJ4 was a wonderful beast.
Having said that, “print drivers” need to be “I’m gonna blow a PDF onto your port 9100 and you better make the things go on the goddamned paper or you fail and it’s the wood chipper for you”. I’m tired of everything else.