Disables print-as-pdf tho, could prevent some accessibility software too.
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ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you buy whatever Brother laser printer, the ink doesn’t dry up and you never have to print anything anyway. It’s like $100 and the cartridge lasts forever.
And also; don’t print. If you’re a developer, put in the css that says:
@media print { body,html {display:none;} }
That might not completely do it because it’s a joke but slap !important or whatever wherever you want.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is a good point. I obviously said the code was a joke but accessibility is something I was ignorant of early in my career when I was just trying to make the code work. Once I got some experience under my belt, I really focused on it as critical before shipping. And, surprisingly, I was always able to request extra funding for it.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Also, there’s easy tools to help you. I know VS Code has accessibility code linter extensions. I’m not as familiar with Xcode or others but I’d bet there’s something that at least treats it like a code warning if you do something that would make your web site gibberish to screen readers and the like.
We’re pretty much all gonna be disabled at some point. Some of us will piss off the mafia and be sank to the bottom a shallow sea while in our prime. But ideally, we all live to have vision problems or some other need for accessibility to exist.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
why would I put that in the CSS??
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean if you are a pretentious asshole worried about stinky users stealing your precious content…
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
ok, but as I understand that was not a topic in the parent comment
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 month ago
TIL the scope of a conversation can never include anything that wasn’t in the original post. I can’t imagine how boring your conversations must be irl.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s a joke, dog. It makes it so the page comes out white when printing. It’s not something anyone should actually put in their code.
Allero@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Seriously though.
Bought an old second-hand Brother printer a while ago and couldn’t be happier.
Model is like 10 years old, yet all spare parts and cartridges as well as just toner are readily available and the printer is perfectly fine (damn how precise laser printers are!).
They just make it happen.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was sold on laser the minute I had to print something after a month of not needing to and it just popped out before I could get to it (thanks for AirPrint/wifi printing). My old inkjet would’ve been dried up and had to be cleaned taking like 10 minutes and wasting paper. Yeah, laser is the only way to go.
We just print photos from Walgreens or Shutterfly if we need quality color photos. Super cheap and I don’t have to maintain the equipment. Although about the only photo printing we do these days is large for the wall on glass or canvas.
Our favorite photos are also displayed on our living room AppleTV’s screensaver. We just favorite them in the Photos app and they automatically show up. My parents are used to seeing our favorite photos from vacations when house sitting before we’ve even told them what attraction we’re doing. Best feature ever.
Allero@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Sounds so wholesome :)
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
You are probably talking about toner (dry black powder).
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Brother invalidates its laser cartridges after a certain number of revolutions irrespective of how much toner is left. You used to be able to override this manually but they removed that in a software update recently. Am livid. If you know different do you mind sharing what model you have?
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
There is an official way to override this. In mine it’s pressing 7 times some button
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s what I used to be able to do. It was pressing the back and cancel buttons in some combination brought up a hidden menu where you could reset the toner levels. You can still bring the menu up on mine but now it ignores any reset you do.