Posts by EVP 218 posts • joined 16 Nov 2018
Who fscking cares! An invalidated insurance here, devastated landscape from mining lithium there*... they're saving the planet, you know. No price is too high to pay to be able to consume more and to claim be being "climate compliant".
Yes, I'm being sarcastic here - just in case.
* I do know that the oil industry is no scout boys either.
Do you use original ink cartridges? I'm using original ones in my Canons.
I got a second-hand Epson multi-function device. The previous owner had been using third-party ink in it, and it got clogged very soon when I didn't print with it for four, maybe five, weeks. Cleaning did not rescue the heads. I though Epson is good brand what comes to clogging, maybe it isn't after all.
I've sold my arms and legs to buy Canon ink, and I've got only one kidney left. I'd very much like to know what third-party ink is (nearly) as good as the original one. Perhaps there doesn't exist such third-party vendor...
”Quite - not sure where but I'm sure I've seen that inkjets need to be used reasonably frequently to stop being a dried out mess. I print something probably once every 2 months on average.”
Not so fast. I just dug out my Canon MP6xx inkjet from storage where it has been resting for 2 years. It churned out perfect test patterns, first try, no cleaning required. No clogging, no nothing, nada. How stupid is that? It’s creepy. I had the same experience with an MP540 too, but time it spent in storage was much less.
Many moons ago I was young and stupid, now I’m only... well.. anyway, and bough a very cheap HP inkjet. That miserable fucking thing barely managed to print one page between clogging. I wish I still had it so I could kill it with fire. Many times. I know it was a rip-off device, but still, I paid money for it after all.
”My next printer choice will likely be a laser - and not an HP one.”
Excellent choice, sir.
One should not be hard on feelings. Someone might be triggered, detonated, or even pulsated.
I propose everything is reduced to gray goo (’soylent green’ might offend communists, capitalists and the colour blind) and we go dribbling around. That should do it! (Can I say ”do it”?-o)
”ring to care without actually having to do much. Most customers lose the will to live fairly rapidly with these systems and just go and buy a new thing.
Success for consumerism!”
After such an event, I usually lose my will to buy any new gadget on the whole product gategory in question. In others words, I say fcuck you with me wallet. No so successful consumerism.
Yeah, and I can tell you (s)he’ll brag how ”In my time, bronze was made out of wood, and silver didn’t even exist yet!”. And how good we have it nowadays.
There is this red square one then with a silhouette of a bald guy with schnozzle. I wonder what they are for. A booby prize, perhaps?
” What troubles me now is that I can't pinpoint the origin and the final purpose of all this. In”
Shit*, what you say is both seriously interesting and scaring. It’s probably the lack of apparent origin that makes the whole phenomenon so disturbing. I cannot think of any other purpose than signalling one’s high moral grounds to the world. After a while, this signalling must be done by default, otherwise you are a racist, communist and thread to the whole mankind.
Thanks!
*Used to upset the conformists.
Wouldn't it become Themley, then?
None of my* business, though. Except that this is soooo fcucked up this whole thing that my head starts to spin in CCW and will explode in 3 seconds. Beware of shrapnels!***
*Ooops, I** used something else than them/their.
**Oh nooo, again!
***Except you New Speak guys, you can ignore any shrapnels. No need to duck and cover. Honestly!
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