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My cheapish Epson (Stylus CX7400) is reasonably happy with only printing a few times a year; at most I need to do a manual head cleaning about half the time. My printing consists of a half dozen or so random small jobs throughout the year and a big stack of hard copy tax form backup every spring.
I debate replacing it due to its age every time I order ink; but after 12 years it's not only outlasted every other printer I've owned, but it's almost to the point of outlasting the combined lifetime of every inkjet printer I've used tracing back to the 1st one my parents got when I was a kid.
Other than needing to do manual cleaning cycles after extended idleness; my only real complaint is that a year or two ago W10 "ate" the tray app that administered it, and the way the dialog bits now show up buried in settings are a pain to use because I can never remember how to find the part I need.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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My issue with the printer scenario is:
 Inkjets are cheaper to buy than laserjets
Inkjets are generally smaller than laserjets
That makes inkjets the natural choice for the home user.
However, most home users don't print that much / that often. And ink dries out if not used in a while, so even more costly (and it's already more costly than a laserjet to run before this added inefficiency). 
So far I've been unable to discover a home printer optimised for the person who prints 5-6 pages once a month, mostly in black & white with the occasional colour logo/image; though I get the impression this is the scenario most home users are in.
There are printing services, but that means a trip into town; so the last minute print-out before an assignment's due, or remembering to print off tickets as you're on your way out the door to a gig don't fit well with that solution. 
One idea I had was to create a service that helps you find neighbours with printers, so you can share such resources; i.e. when you need to print it'll find someone within 5 minutes walk of your house who's in, and allow you to print to their printer, charge you for the use, and then you pop round and grab it. That's also more environmentally friendly as it means you don't have a neighbourhood full of unused printers.
What do people think?
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John Bevan wrote: Inkjets are generally smaller than laserjets
I'd have to disagree on that one: the Epson I took out was 46x32x24, and the Samsung is 38x31x21
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It's similar to the model used by Uber et al. What's wrong with that?
(Other than the fact that they've yet to make a profit.  )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I have not followed the recent Lounge discussions, but most of us normal beings buy consumer printers like Canon, HP, Lexmark and stuff.
All theses brands have:
- Programmed obsolescence of about one year.
- Ink suck-up regardless of how frequent the printer is used or not. I had a bunch of inkjet printers in the past, and about 80% of the ink was used to "clean the heads" or whatever bizarre process was requested every freaking time I fired up the machine.
The business is to sell ink, not to offer any quality printing. The programmed obsolescence forces you to buy another machine, and ... ink, since either the cartridges format has changed or the delivered ink cartridges are almost empty. So, it is all about ink[^].
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That's an accurate, if cynical, description of how the inkjet business model works. The consumer market unfortunately exhibits the "planned obsolescence" behavior a lot more than in my neck of the woods. We have one product developed in the mid 1990's that we are still refurbishing and supporting to this day. Some of our customers get 10,000 hours or more of life out of their printheads when the design life was originally 2,000 hours.
Software Zen: delete this;
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for any number nerds
17 feet per second == 11.59 miles per hour (google unit converter)
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And in our case, the magic [cue sparkles] number 1,000 feet per minute. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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For real nerds:
17 feet per second = 31156.3 furlongs per fortnight.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Something to keep you busy over the Christmas shutdown perhaps: GOG.com[^] is giving away Wasteland 2 - never played it, but it got reasonably good reviews when it came out.
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I never played a turn based game, but I might give it a try somewhen when I have nothing better to do and already bored of the other games  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Are sea monster jokes just Kraken you up?
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whatever floats your boat
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You've gotta be squiddin' me.
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Whale ask around. If anyone knows eel probably tell us. Also, you may want to supply some cetaceans so we can look it up ourselves.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: cetaceans
Very impressive punning skills 
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Just wait 'till you hear about the one that got away...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It's hard to fathom how you come up with these things, you are the Jackson Pollock of these thoughts.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Just had to release that one didn't you.
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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I had to change my car tires this morning and it could only be done at a specific garage.
So I drive to the garage and, completely unexpected, I drive past the house of an ex... From 16 years ago!
Google Maps would not have send me there, but I used TomTom, who did.
While waiting for my car I start to wonder, how is she and her family?
We didn't break up on bad terms and I've talked to her a few times after.
We even hung out a few times as friends, but that was long ago.
I've lost her number and she doesn't do social media and the last time I talked to her was over 10 years ago.
On my way back I just pulled over and rang the bell and to my surprise she still lived there.
Her father opened the door and I was like "Hey [name], remember me!? "
To say they were surprised is an understatement
I've changed A LOT since then so they didn't even recognize me at first.
Kind of the real life equivalent of befriending that high school friend you haven't talked to in years on Facebook.
Of course they let me in, offered me a drink and we had a nice talk (mostly her dad and me) and we exchanged numbers.
I'm not planning on getting back together or anything, but it was nice seeing them again.
Still kind of awkward at first though
Not sure yet if I'll follow up with a WhatsApp message, but at least I'll send them a Christmas card 
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Quote: I'm walking on sunshine (Wow!)
I'm walking on sunshine (Wow!)
I'm walking on sunshine (Wow!)
And don't it feel good
Hey, alright now
And don't it feel good, hey
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For some reason that makes me feel good. It makes me happy when old friends reconnect.
A couple of years ago, by pure chance, I found my old best friend from school that I had lost touch with when we each went to different universities. He had emigrated to Australia, started a Project Management consultancy in Sidney and was doing very well, married with two beautiful daughters and a couple of grandchildren on the way.
I wasn't ever planning on going to Australia, too dangerous (snakes, spiders, wombats, koalas, kangaroos), but now I am re-considering, perhaps a side visit when I go to New Zealand eventually.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: but now I am re-considering, perhaps a side visit when I go to New Zealand eventually.
For me, that would be a great excuse to go there!
A few years back I hooked up with an old friend (we were like really close friends, almost ended up having a relationship).
She wasn't the brightest back then, but her heart was in the good place and I really liked her anyway.
So anyway, first red flag was when I suggested we'd grab dinner somewhere and she didn't have money.
Alright, so how about we meet up at my place and I'll cook us something nice?
Second red flag, she didn't have a car or a driver's license, necessary to reach my house (the bus would take forever, but she didn't have bus money anyway).
Her place wasn't an option either as she still lived with her dad, another red flag.
Alright, I picked her up and brought her home.
She didn't change a bit in ten years time.
She talked about the same issues and the same people like when we were still in high school (at least she finished that, but that was about the only thing that changed, that and about 40 kg extra) 
We still talked a bit on WhatsApp, but that changed when she changed her profile picture to a funny pic of her and I was like "wow, scary face! " and she was all like "WELL I'M NOT HERE FOR YOU TO LOOK AT FOR YOUR PLEASURE SO I POST WHATEVER PIC I LIKE!" and I was like "wow, you have some serious issues".
Not quite the reunion I was hoping for and we never talked again
I still have her on FB though so I know she now has a boyfriend and lives together with him, so I guess she's finally growing up a bit
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