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Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer

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Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://aschmelyun.com/blog/getting-my-daily-news-from-a-dot-matrix-printer/

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  • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why?

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      • Xyre@lemmus.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Perhaps a daisy wheel printer is an acceptable middle ground

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      • T156@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What about the Selectric Typing-ball?

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    • leisesprecher@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      youtu.be/sSiVYgot9SI

      Not even two weeks ago.

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  • Hotspur@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And ink?

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      • db2@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        *ribbons

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  • zante@lemmy.wtf ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the future we were promised

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  • geekwithsoul@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because it is fun to him?

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      • geekwithsoul@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨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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