Post #3635708
2026-07-06 19:49 UTC
When the aliens get here, amidst the ruins they’re going to find a bunch of Brother mono laser printers, still on the included toner cartridge, sitting there on the network ready to roll and wondering why nobody has printed a return label for five thousand years.
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@mattgemmell@mastodon.scot 2026-07-06 19:57
People don’t realise that “Just get a Brother laser; it’s fine” is the highest possible compliment for printers. If you want a printer to (1) sit near-dormant in deep sleep for weeks or months on end, and then (2) immediately print what you send to it, properly, every single time and then go to sleep again, then… just get a Brother laser printer. Somehow, in this world of madness, it does the thing you buy it for with no bullshit. If you can even remember what that’s like.
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@mattgemmell@mastodon.scot 2026-07-06 19:50
It’ll just be cockroaches on their refurbed Nokia 3310s, figuring out how to send print jobs to those things. That’s all that’ll survive.