Post #2613255
2026-05-16 15:33 UTC
Replies (17)
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@zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net 2026-05-16 15:55
@quinn@social.circl.lu But why keep the gun within easy reach of the printer? 😅
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@luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-05-16 16:31
@quinn@social.circl.lu A dot-matrix printer, so that you hear well its work and no smart engine processes your dots.
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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social 2026-05-16 16:44
@quinn@social.circl.lu Out of all the pieces of hardware to keep, this person kept their printer??? Those things are constantly trying to call home and rewire themselves to keep you from using unapproved ink. That's the official story of what they're doing anyway--who even knows if that's true. They're like the last thing I'd keep around. You can go to the library and use a printer. You probably have to anyway because you're out of ink. You just bought ink yesterday but you're out. WTF with the printer?
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@pwloftus@pwl.farted.net 2026-05-16 17:24
@quinn@social.circl.lu Looks at 110v device "Don't make me plug you into 220v" I do ❤️ my printer.
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@wendinoakland@beige.party 2026-05-16 17:25
@quinn@social.circl.lu Even the new appliances run without “their” software. My house, my rules.
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@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org 2026-05-16 17:24
@quinn@social.circl.lu Fun Fact: The late sci-fi author and tech writer Jerry Pournelle actually did keep a gun next to his terminal. Many, many years ago I helped him with his CP/M system at his home that he used for his writing, and it was impossible not to notice.
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to 2026-05-16 17:32
@quinn@social.circl.lu The programmer is driving a bunch of us to lunch, and we come to an at grade RR crossing with automatic gates and signals The programmer STOPS the car, rolls down the windows, looks carefully then crosses the track when we all say: you don't have to do that, there are automatic signals, he says Software
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@LovingFalloutLondon1954@mastodon.social 2026-05-16 17:34
@quinn@social.circl.lu I once pulled a dot matrix printer off it's shelf and stomped it into pieces on the floor before throwing it in the trash. This was long ago - I think before 'Office Space'. The printer had a single cartridge which contained multiple compartments for different primary colors. It seemed to always be out of ink. I opened it up and found a stalagmite of dried ink an inch high where it had been leaking for the entire time I had owned it. Cue rage-quit.
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@webhat@infosec.exchange 2026-05-16 17:35
@quinn@social.circl.lu I'd love to tech-out my house, and tech only has two states: works approximately correctly and broken
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@bedifferent@mastodon.social 2026-05-16 17:56
@quinn@social.circl.lu Oh, man. That's fabulous. I looked at my ISP's router recently to see what all was connected and was blown away by all the xxxx. We went from cable to IPTV and the internet kept dropping, so I wondered if we were overloaded with devices. I'm an obsolete techy and became pretty afraid of what was coming when in the early 2000s when our medical records were being put online (not for us - for the data thieves) and it just got worse from there.
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@admin@mastodon.foxfam.club 2026-05-16 18:15
@quinn@social.circl.lu yeah I don't know about that, fam. I've got a home lab that's sick AF. 💯💯
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@pseudonym@mastodon.online 2026-05-16 18:18
@quinn@social.circl.lu https://mastodon.online/@pseudonym/108410454866498390 Haunted printer toot.
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@v_d_richards@literatur.social 2026-05-16 18:21
@quinn@social.circl.lu Yes. This! The more i got educated about Tech/IT the more shit flew out of our house. I am back to analog solutions, no smart Home shit anymore. It is all gone ( Alexa, Smart heating Controll,...) and the Smart TVs are the next that is going. My Computers are allowed Internet Access on my terms. Same goes for my phone. Everything else reverts back to the old ways. And i feel more free than ever.
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@MostlyTato@mstdn.social 2026-05-16 18:26
@quinn@social.circl.lu Me: I don't want to use your app. Them: Oh its really easy... Me: I know, I don't want to use it. Them: Its so easy, would you like me to show you? Me: No, for the third time. I won't tell you again. I don't want to use it precisely because its so convenient. I know how it works and its not private and probably not even secure. Them: well, there is no need to be like that about it. Me: ...
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@VerenaRupp@social.vivaldi.net 2026-05-16 18:54
@quinn@social.circl.lu *smart people
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@ardouglass@mastodon.social 2026-05-16 19:16
@quinn@social.circl.lu this always bothered me because if all you have is a printer, how are you printing anything anyway?
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@unsungnovelty@mastodon.social 2026-05-16 19:25
@quinn@social.circl.lu I have been trying to find the original meme of this tweet for a long time. The search still continues. :(