With how bad wifi printing technology is, it feels like it.
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Just logged on to work, and this is what I see:
Sweet irony, I need a printer.
Just wait until you try to scan something on a prints that requires ink to scan, even if you are just doing it to a file. Printers suck and printer companies are the worst.
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Or a Kinkos and a flash drive
I’ve been a computer programmer for 25 years. I have never once tried to set up wifi printing for exactly this reason. I see nothing but pain. I talk over, plug in the USB cord, print.
I’m angry now just reading this.
Yeah, if I can’t get it working right tonight, I’ll just plug a USB cable into it.
At least bmw has axed their heated seat subscription.
Got the printer AND scanner working again with my laptop. Uninstalled. Tried installing with the WPS PIN, which kind of worked, but it said the drivers were unavailable. So I downloaded them from the HP website. It ran some sort of setup software, which, naturally, couldn’t find the printer. I had to enter the IP address. Then it still couldn’t do the installation for some reason, but fortunately gave me a link to download the drivers directly and it all worked out.
There’s no fucking way someone who doesn’t know computers could’ve done that. Does grandma know the IP address of her printer?
At convenient stores here you pay at self-checkout stands via scanning a QR code on your phone.
99% of the time after you scan the payment directly goes through after a few seconds. Randomly 1% of the time you need to input your payment password on your phone before it goes through.
99% of the time I watch my phone and wait for the payment to go through. 1% of the time I scan it, immediately put my phone back in my pocket, grab whatever I bought and leave.
Guess how I’m running.
Not sure how angry I should be.
Family is in Scottsdale on vacation and we go to a piano bar. They solicit requests, both Christmas songs and non-Christmas they say, via Venmo. I request the best Christmas song ever (Christmas Wrapping) with what I believe is a standard $5 tip.
They don’t play the song, and I have no recourse. Is this standard? Am I implicitly bound to request one of the 50 or so overplayed standards? Shouldn’t they be at least “hey that’s an awesome song but we don’t know it, can we play an alternative?”?
(I know that my request was timely because they played our other song—Shake it Off requested by my daughter—early on.)
Trying not to let this ruin our trip.
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I wouldn’t expect my song to be played for less than $20 and then only if they know the song. I certainly have no idea what song that is.
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I recognized like 15 seconds worth of trumpet solo. Any musician playing that on demand is a witch.
You may have needed to sing some bars from this song for them. Because you could have played this song for me (which I recognize) and tortured me until I guessed the name of the song, and I would have just passed out from the pain.
This you?
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Every clip I’ve ever seen of that show is like “I have no idea what’s going to happen, but I know the scene is going to get more and more uncomfortable until it’s excruciating”. I get that it’s probably a brilliant show. But I just can’t handle it.
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That’s much kinder than me judging the guy as just having a face I could not enjoy comedy to.
I know this isn’t anything new, but fuuuuuuck printers. We’re in the third decade of the 21st century and they still can’t make a printer that consistently works.
Bought an HP wireless LaserJet a couple years ago for two main reasons: 1) The good, basic Brother laser printer I had didn’t have built-in wifi and while I had it connected directly to my router, it wouldn’t reliably work over wifi, and 2) we printed my son’s Bar Mitzvah invitation envelopes and the HP did a fantastic job with them, while the Brother mangled them.
HP wanted me to use the HP Smart app to setup the printer, but at the end of the process, it said my printer wasn’t compatible. Great! Fortunately, I know a thing or two about computers, so I was able to set it up manually with the IP address and all that.
Worked fine for a while on every PC I connected to it, but eventually, every computer except my laptop couldn’t print anymore. No reason. Who cares? It’s a fucking printer, so of course it’s not going to work. So everyone in the house e-mails shit to me to print.
And now yesterday, I had to print out some medical forms so my daughter could play high school sports. Two docs printed fine. Then I went to print the most important ones - the ones I had to take to the doctor to be filled out and signed. Kept getting error notifications. Wouldn’t print. Pressed various buttons on the printer, unplugged it, plugged it back in, nothing. Pressed a button to print out a status report and all it said was that there was something wrong and I had to go to the HP Smart app (!!) to fix it.
So I logged into my HP account, which is fucking stupid, and it told me that my printer didn’t have an internet connection. Two things: 1) It just fucking printed a few minutes ago, and 2) WHY DO I NEED A GODDAMN INTERNET CONNECTION TO PRINT?
(it’s because of the dumb toner program, apparently)
So I rushed to the library, paid to print two pages, then rushed to the doctor’s office so I could get the paperwork signed before the doctor was done for the week. Fuck.
I’m going to reset the printer to factory settings and then redo everything.
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Oh, and I even tried to connect the old Brother printer directly to my laptop and that didn’t work.
PC load letter, amirite?