Log from ##programming@libera.chat
| user | message |
|---|---|
| kinduff | Are dot matrix printers the only kind of printers that are not an actual scam? |
| vdamewood | kinduff: That’s a pretty loaded question. |
| GeDaMo | kinduff: laser printers? Daisywheels? |
| Raziel | kinduff, ink tank ones aren’t bad either |
| Raziel | thermal scams you on the paper so eh |
| GeDaMo | Pen plotters! :P |
| kinduff | i mean, all printers seem like a scam, specially ink tank ones |
| kinduff | saw this reddit post about an hp printer that was blocked because it wasn’t authenticated |
| kinduff | thermal paper seems legit, and I like them, but a4 paper is expensive |
| GeDaMo | Maybe you could use a knitting machine as a printer : |
| Raziel | use a CNC machine as a printer |
| kinduff | lol |
| kinduff | what about lemon printers? lemon ink + heat = printed page |
| kinduff | wondering why this is not a thing yet |
| vdamewood | Hmm… I wonder if it’s possible to make a 600 DPI printer without infringing on any active patents. |
| kinduff | vdamewood are there a lot of patents for printing? |
| GeDaMo | There are patents for everything :/ |
| vdamewood | kinduff: Probably. Odds are there are several patents that apply to any given device you can buy these days. |
| kinduff | there should be a startup or something to “revolutionize printers” |
| kinduff | i can already picture the video |
| kinduff | “hi, im tom, and i love printing, but most printers are a scam” |
| Raziel | I can already picture the kickstarter page |
| kinduff | “thats why we created iPrintStuff, the printer that is made by printers, for printers” |
| Raziel | “hi, im tom, and i love pissing, but most printers can’t use piss as ink” |
| vdamewood | I wouldn’t mind selling printers for a profit, and not caring about selling ink. |
| kinduff | isn’t ink the profit making thing for printing companies? |
| GeDaMo | Use 3D printers as 2D printers : |
| kinduff | like cinemas, they profit from candy instead of tickets |
| vdamewood | kinduff: It is. |
| GeDaMo | It is now, you can often but a whole printer for less than an ink refill |
| GeDaMo | s/but/buy/ |
| Raziel | here’s an unpopular opinions: cinemas suck and I’d much rather use my living room |
| kinduff | not unpopular at all, i hate cinemas and people in cinemas |
| GeDaMo | Is that unpopular? :P |
| kinduff | i prefer smelling my own farts |
| * | edgar-rft butts a whole printer |
| GeDaMo | I think cinemas are only popular with film makers |
| Raziel | GeDaMo, I’ve seen lots of people lose their shit when someone says they don’t like going to the cinema and would rather use their huge-ass TV in the comfort of their home |
| Raziel | maybe they feel attacked because their TVs aren’t that nice? :v |
| vdamewood | I like how COVID showed that no one ggives a scheisse about cinemas. |
| Trashlord | is it worth doing a whole bunch of type casting and shit like that in C#, just to use bytes and shorts instead of ints, because I don’t really need the range of int? |
| GeDaMo | Trashlord: only if you have a lot of data and you’re worried about it not fitting into memory |
| Raziel | vdamewood, I wish they’d just keep releasing stuff on home media at the same time as cinemas, as they were doing during covid |
| Trashlord | also I prefer to see movies at home than at the cinema |
| GeDaMo | Also performance, I guess |
| Raziel | but every moviemaker would apparently lose their shit because their artistic vision can’t be fulfilled on people’s shitty home setups (read: they don’t get the sweet cinema money) |
| Trashlord | GeDaMo: I have the memory, I just think that I should try to save as many resources as I can, because why not? |
| kinduff | long term wise, it’s a better investment to have a nice home cinema setup instead of paying a suckass cinema everytime you want to watch a movie |
| Raziel | Trashlord, it probably isn’t worth it, and also slower |
| Raziel | unless you’re short on memory |
| GeDaMo | Using smaller data types saves on cache space but may be slower to process |
| Trashlord | ah |
| vdamewood | I just realized, that these days, a Bluray costs about the same as, at most, 4 cinema tickets. |
| vdamewood | Often, fewer than 4. |
