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What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 12 points 3 years ago (16 children)

Who in the world is using a USB printer in 2023?

Ethernet bby

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    Who is using an Ethernet printer in 2024?

    Wifi bby

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    People who value their sanity. WiFi is unreliable.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Yeah, wireless printers can eat my refuse. I just spent a fruitless hour fixing my neighbours printer. Their crime? Restarting the router spooked the printer connection to the network. Shit system integration and poor documentation make this job needlessly painful.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I have a wireless Canon. Has worked flawlessly for years. Never had any issues. Replace the ink every now and again and it keeps chugging.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    I believe you. We can make wireless stuff work if we really want to. My Bluetooth headset links with the phone perfectly every time. Attempt the same trick with Teams on a PC, forget about it. Wifi generally seems quite solid these days but if I get a choice I will use ethernet. It would have to be really bad to warrant going back to wired headphones but with a printer, meh. I don't walk around my house with it and run a few copies from the kitchen.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    If anybody has issues with your printers wireless connection constantly dropping. Try setting a static IP address for the printers wifi connection. I've fixed 3 wireless printers by doing this. My wife's work bought her a new wireless laser printer 2 years ago. Thing would lose its ip address every time it went into sleep mode, and it would only reacquire an IP address about half the time. Changed it to a static IP address, and now it always just works.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Who in the world would put a cheap blackbox in their household and give it access to the internet.

    Selfhosted CUPS bby!

    The reasonably new android phones seem to detect unix network printers now, so wireless printing works as well. Mostly... we're talking about the printers after all.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    my highschool robotics club :)

    we had a printer in our CAD area that we would just plug into whichever PC needed to print. it was pretty jank but worked, and that not the kind of thing worth spending money/effort on.

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