Ecotank inkjet printer
Yes
They literally can’t drm liquid ink that you pour into ink tanks
Personally I think HP is missing the point focusing on putting drm on inkjet refills, it is only half committing to the business strategy.
The existence of a finished, printed paper begins at the moment of conception when the customer conceives of wanting to print a document. Really every step after that point (including the conception step itself) is monetizable by HP and more importantly rightfully owned as intellectual property of HP that you are technically stealing if you don’t follow through with actually printing the document on an HP printer.
HP is just leaving all of that money on the table, or maybe the printer market is just too heavily regulated for HP to innovate properly in a healthy free market.
I would like to subscribe to more corporate monetization facts
Lies!
this is like one of those IQ scale wojaks memes
everything electronic is just a tracking device <----------> electronic components are highly specialized <------------> everything electronic is just a tracking device…Everything with a serial no. is a tracking device and so is everything with a bill.
I knew that fucking duck was tracking me!
Oh shit there is a tracking above me… the ceiling lamp!!!
Did your breakfast material not come with a bill?
Then the IRS knows you bought breakfast 👹
I could have used this when I was a kid playing games and would go “sorry, my cpu is bad” whenever I had lag issues even though the cpu was actually okay and it was really because of playing on a laptop with integrated graphics and a spotty internet connection, because at the time I thought CPU was just a short way of saying ComPUter…
Could be worse: you could’ve been one of those people who called their CRT monitor the “computer” and called the computer the “hard drive”.
I think think for awhile as a very young kid I thought the former (by the time I learned about hard drives I knew what a monitor and computer were), but in my defense, my first exposure to computers and what my family had at that age was one of those old imac computers that really did have the screen and the computer in the same device.
Wow, that’s even worse than calling the whole computer “the CPU”.
I blame games back then for calling bots/AI “CPU” characters, short for “computer”
No I’m pretty sure that was also literally referring to the CPU inside the computer or whatever console you were playing on, as that is the specific module that would be calculating the moves for (or, “playing as”) said bot player.
Inkjet definitely has a place; it’s for high-resolution and accuracy printing, esp. photography. Consumer-level inkjet printers are mostly a waste of money. A correctly calibrated ink jet printer will print color more accurately–within it’s gamut capability–and be higher resolution than laser printers. I’ve really liked Epson large format printers in the past, but I’m not sure who currently does the best large photo printers.
I’m sorry, I was going to reply, but my printer had a forced update and then detected an unauthorized cyan cartridge from a third party, shut down, and called the police to arrest me for violating HP’s terms of servitude, er “service”.
There are better inkjets like tank printers using ink bottles. Cheaper per page than even laser printers, and can’t detect 3rd party ink (cause it’s a liquid lmao). None of this subscription stuff is required. They don’t have the gamut of say 7 cartridge ink jets obviously, but still better than laser printers I imagine. The main drawback is the extra maintenance of an inkjet with them drying up and all that.
So stop buying HP in other words.
I haven’t bought a printer in years, but had to service a crappy one for work. I’m very interested in this ink bottle refill type of printer. That honestly sounds perfect. Didn’t know it was a thing. Thank you.
The CPU should probably be replaced by a ALU in the image. But it’s kinda hard to get a good shot of the ALU.
Wth is fpu
Floating Point Unit. The thing that does mathematical operations on floating point numbers. It used come separately from the CPU as an add-on chip, but around the 486 era, manufacturers started integrating it on the same die as the CPU. Of course, as these things go, from the system programmers point of view, there is still no difference between an add-on FPU and an integrated one.
The one pictured here is an add-on FPU for an Intel 80386 CPU.
Thank you. Didn’t know that was a thing. I never had to buy an fpu so it was just built with the cpu so I never learned what it was.
What you can by is a
FPGUFPGA :)
Basically a lego kit for a CPU you can program for different use cases which dont warrant cpu manufacturing at scale or prototypingFPGA, but close enough.
Technically SSDs will forget numbers too if left disconnected from power and in a hot room
That’s like saying HDDs will forget numbers if you store them next to a powerful magnet. Most SSDs have an operating range up to 70°C, so that hot room would have to be more like an oven.
I’m guessing the original commenter lives in an uninsulated tin shack in the Arizona desert.
Ram is closest to human short term memory
Our minds dump its contents to permanent memory when we sleep
My ram just dumps its contents to whatever it feels like whenever it fancies like a rogue waste disposal truck that goes around neighborhoods collecting trash and then just delivering it to other random homes.
But we have multiple working memories with different saving times.
Inkjet: makes numbers in your bank account go down.
