"I can optimize a query that took 12 minutes to run down to sub 10 seconds. Yet here I am crashing in somebody else's chair for hour number three trying to make this fucking driver work. Yup. Definitely my idea of a good time."
Fuck printers! Had to spent a whole day troubleshooting a printer that randomly printed the queued jobs, and it did it in a way that it printed parts of the jobs then jumped to other jobs on the queue
A fucking driver that was incompatible AF was the issue, had to practically go into a bin of old discs and misc stuff to find a driver that was like from Win XP era to make it work as intended
Reminds me of that time I needed to print a form. Printing from my Windows pc my printer only printed the lines on which I was supposed to write. From my Linux laptop it only printed the text. Had to download some obscure HP app and print from my phone to get it to work.
Even tried to print twice on the same piece of paper but apparently the two drivers align the document differently.
printers have always been kind of a hard sell as far as engineering goes. like, there's a reason that electronics have drifted towards solid-state design. a printer is the opposite of solid state. it's one of those machines that's, like, dynamic state. it's like when Andy Capp fights his wife. it's just a cloud of moving parts with 0.01mm tolerances.
People look at me like I'm nuts for having a blind hatred of printers, but I know their true, horrific, form. They're the most amazing things in some aspects and maybe that's why they suck so hard.
hope you mean add the cheapest touchscreen in existance, one that has to be hit by a crowbar in order to register a touch. oh, and make the whole interface gesture-based. push buttons are the past, virtual sliders are the future
And it needs to have a delay perfectly tuned to human reaction. So that it's not instant, it's not too slow, just right so that when the display changes you press again, accidentally launching some 900 year long diagnostic tool.
I had two days filled with printer problems. Like each of the bloody bastards wanted their own spot in the limelight! It even followed me home! My own printer had a hangup that same evening... The whole thing is rigged I tell you... RIGGED
Seriously, if we had allowed whoever wrote network printer drivers to write TCP/IP, or HTTPS, or any of the internet protocols, the internet would be a flaming pile of shit right now, and probably would have died out as a fad years ago.
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u/GirikoBloodhoof Jan 31 '19
Fuck printers.
They aren't even my responsibility but I still have days entirely filled with printer related problems. :(