Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer

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• essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was interested until I hit this sentence:

  I use PHP as my language of choice in a day-to-day basis, and this is no exception.

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why?

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    • Xyre@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Likely because it’s $current_year and there are better choices available.

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• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t stand the screeching of a dot matrix printer. The correct way to print the news is with a teletype.

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  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Perhaps a daisy wheel printer is an acceptable middle ground

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    • T156@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What about the Selectric Typing-ball?

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  • leisesprecher@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    youtu.be/sSiVYgot9SI

    Not even two weeks ago.

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• Hotspur@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Man, I wonder if it’s challenging to source a steady supply of paper for that thing…

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  • HejMedDig@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apparently not… Is it somehow still widely used. It’s the most likely paper to give you paper cuts though physicsworld.com/…/researchers-cut-to-the-chase-o…

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    • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah. Airlines still use it for log books and reports.

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And ink?

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      *ribbons

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• zante@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the future we were promised

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• geekwithsoul@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So, a newspaper with a lot of extra steps? I understand the gee whizness of getting this all to work but not really sure there’s a solid “why” to this.

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  • umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because it is fun to him?

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    • geekwithsoul@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe? But in the article he was talking about his priority being that he wanted to disconnect from his phone but still wanted news. Just seems there’s been a solution for that for a few centuries now. His solution seemed to me at least to be a lemon that wasn’t worth the squeeze as it were.

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  • Quik@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, but I don’t know whether you’ve recently taken a look in one of the local newspapers— being able to select topics you want to read about may very well be worth the extra effort (also, fun of course)

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    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You aren’t actually forced to read every article in a newspaper. Though you will have to scan over the headlines, so you will have a small awareness of things happening in the world. But is that a bad thing?

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