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Printers start speaking in tongues after Windows 11 update (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Makes me wonder how many millions of junk pages this has caused.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I fuckin despise printers. They’re the only computer hardware I always struggle to repair

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

My printer has a habit of missing the start of the paper sheet so it just sprays its insides with ink some of which gets smeared on bottom of the paper.

But the glued-in waste ink compartment is worse. It's supposed to "last the printer's lifetime".