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submitted 9 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 49 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Just think, once we all die off, no more printers.

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[–] OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The responsibility of knowing how to use a printer skips a generation, much like male pattern baldness.

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

skips a generation, much like male pattern baldness.

TIL my grandpa made me color blind and balding, that dead sonofabitch

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

So, I'm reading two false claims, and I've got a long line of highly proficient bald family members to prove it

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[–] OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 months ago

That's actually two separate lines of male pattern baldness and two separate lines of printer proficiency alternating between each other.

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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 2 points 9 months ago

I'll believe it when I see it.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

The 3d printers are so cool though.

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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Sorry, no printers.

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[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

But I was so close to perfecting my 4d printer.

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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Thermodynamics says no.

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[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

It was just a Kickstarter grift that spritzed you with water and played the Back To The Future theme as it printed, anyway.

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[–] zeca@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago*

We may just start charging for this ultra-specialized skill

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Hopefully finally only one.single.protocol to simply move pdf to printer?

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

That's been invented in the eighties, it's called PostScript, which is a precursor to PDF. You sent a PostScript file to the printer, and the printer evaluated PostScript and printed the result. Except, with the spread of home printers, processing was moved into the drivers to eliminate costly electronics from printers.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago*

But postscript is the document description, not the transport. And pdf now, because base pdf is simpler & more secure than postscript.

There are about a dotzen transport protocols in a printers settings.

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