I’m having a ton of fun with Mint. I’m finding it tight, full of relevant software, and quite configurable.

None taken! I have already moved on to laser printers. It is literally one less problem in my house. I can’t imagine freaking out and trying to get just a few more pages from my printer, but I was there once.

Sometimes you could rescue them by blotting them on an alcohol soaked paper towel.

The real cost of an inkjet is that one needs to buy ink regardless of whether they print. It tends to dry out over a few months. If you don’t happen to use all the 100-200 pages, the money is wasted.

In the past, just because the printer was on sale, I have been able to buy a cheap printer for less than new ink.

I bought a brother a couple of years ago for just under $200. That was the cost of 4 sets of ink. I have replaced the toner a couple of times at $17 each. Each replacement has lasted me a few thousand pages.

This was a replacement to a pair of brother printers of the same model I obtained via yard sale for a total cost of $10. These yard sale printers would have lasted longer if not for small children and dogs.

I have probably printed 6k pages for the cost of $180 over the course of several years. Most of the printing has been school work for kids and forms in general.

Someone actually wrote that? It reads like AI generated fluff.

IIRC the vendors were obligated to identify themselves. Some of the vendors were just people making hardware mods, too.

I can’t speak to the quality issues, but I understand that some of the accidents are caused by the software correcting unexpectedly, and the user overcorrecting. This is compounded by changes to the software and features.

The glaring engineering issue I have seen is issues with the batteries being discharged and users having no access to the vehicle even though the aux power has juice left (this could be backwards).

For the fires, the lithium batteries become incendiary devices once they are ruptured.

Unless we can do something about the batteries flaming and burning the contents to pure ash, they will gain a worsening reputation on their own.

I had only heard that there wasn’t much merit to multiple layers of compression as there is only so much compression that can be done.

One similar solution to OP here is tarballs.

Don’t forget flac, which was playable on many devices.

So does Chuck e Cheese, or did recently?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/chuck-e-cheese-animatronic-floppy-disks

That was true until the early 00s when people were getting destroyed in court for mp3 sharing.

Pretty sure they meant theft of the theoretical car that might have been sold to you if you could afford it.

/s

Hey, I loved watching people nerd out on their flashlights! Actually, I was there to get insight on how they were building their own awesome lights, and trying to understand what the difference between lights was.

I have been forcing myself to interact to get used to the interface for about a week now. The death of RIF is also what prompted me.