Not even moderately helpful for printer questions.

*For now.

Yeah, that is one of the big problems I was considering. Even monochrome at 300 DPI would be a problem. The imaging array and drum would need to be manufactured separately and installed as whole unit.

Good point. Most people hate printing anyway.

The magnetic read write head is going to be difficult to manufacture. The gearing will need to be 100% on point. You will either need a PCB custom made for your project or you will need to program an Arduino or pi to perform the tape backup. Your OS will need software to manage the data transfer.

You can store 30tb on tape for well under $100. It’s the magnetic tape itself that costs.

You could buy a used tape drive and cassette for less than the cost of a HDD of the same capacity.

Tape storage is slow and finicky. Retrieving is even slower due to seek time.

You are right. I think I rubber-ducked myself to the same conclusion.

I am wondering why there is no open framework for laser printing.

There are a few parts that would have to be made out of sheet metal. The sides could be stamped for the same pattern. You then need a back and a cross section. One could theoretically make them from ABS, but ABS gets brittle with heat and the sides will shatter.

One side of the printer is dedicated to running an ARM SOC. I’m not sure if the Arduino is up to the task, but it will need to control 3 motors, initiate a heating sequence, start a rasterizing laser, interpret a print job, communicate over network and USB, and monitor a bunch of sensors.

The hardest parts will be obtaining print cartridges, rollers, and fusers. Designing a standard to run off a certain vendor’s hardware will be a pile of issues, and nobody will just start manufacturing hardware for a handful of hobbyist printers.

Everything else is 3d printing, springs, and screws.

Does this also give 5 Eyes access to this info?

It works fine. My coworker said the older streaming stick did not perform well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/30ROCK/comments/eu2t2q/old_dick_enjoying_a_lemon_party_in_the_sky_rip/

Thanks so much!

I love the gradients. Can you send / share that wallpaper?

Always has 👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

Don’t worry! Control panel is being slowly phased out in favor of the settings.

I’ll bite. What printer drivers are 5G? HP universal driver is 22MB.

It does it you want to be sure it is delivered!

I’m sorry to say that when FMHY first shut down I migrated here, then never went back. It was my first foray into Lemmy.

I’ll have you know that I just recently had a user incredibly upset because their word perfect files did not automatically identify as word documents.

SHOULD. If they weren’t intrusive over what I’m trying to see, trying to mimic download links, tracking me at best and serving malware at worst.

it makes things up, it makes no attempt to adhere to reason when it’s making an argument.

It doesn’t hardly understand logic. I’m using it to generate content and it continuously will assert information in ways that don’t make sense, relate things that aren’t connected, and forget facts that don’t flow into the response.