My favorite dot matrix memory is printing a like 400 page Breath of Fire 3 strategy guide on a daisy wheel dot matrix, and it took over night to print and everyone in the house complained about the constant ditditditditditditditditdit
edit: And the ribbon was so worn out that you needed forensic equipment to read it, but i persevered.
Its probably just much cheaper and easier, unless you absolutely have to have color, to go to good will and get a brother laser printer for like 10 bucks.
I got one years ago and its still on the original toner cart it came with, and I print decently often.
I mean… thats the only way you get into an ambulance.
They aint gonna fuckin loony toons bar bouncer you into the back of the ambulance from 20 feet away.
until they start having drone malfunctions that result in concussions, sliced throats, and decapitation.
Yep. There were many wrongful death lawsuits as well, i think which resulted in millions of dollars of payouts to families, and all the coverage really hit domino’s reputation to the point they finally dropped the half hour guarantee in the mid 90s because of the financial blows from reputation loss and settlements.
Though I wouldnt be surprised if they try to bring it back via drone deliveries.
and the reason they stopped delivering within 30 minutes was cause it led to reckless driving and many, many, many traffic accidents and losses of life.
Yeah, but I’d rather have a Windows Laptop than a Razer…Anything, really.
They are a shit company with shit quality hardware. At least windows can be reformated, but you cant fix Razer quality.
I wish it wasnt that way, Things should not just be repairable, they should be affordably repairable, because thats a major step towards dealing with a disposable society.
and lets face it, by the time its out of warranty and old enough to need any kind of easy repair… the replacement parts are probably gonna cost as much as a newer, much more up to date laptop from another company.
Which is inherently the problem with repair ability in general.
I run into the same problem with cellphones… I could replace the battery in mine and run it for another 6 years, or I could get a much newer (used) phone for the same price, and end up with a almost 100% new battery AND much better hardware.
but parts will never be made cheap enough to be reasonable and affordable, because people will just buy the parts and assemble the product themselves. So parts have to be at least as expensive as buying the new thing, if not more expensive, to discourage the act itself.
Who would have thought a more expensive, more premium product would have a hard time finding customers during a time when people are struggling to pay bills and cant even afford the non-existent dollar menu at mcdonalds anymore.
The customer is always a bastard.
You’re telling me the party that has openly admitted that they can’t maintain their seats of power if elections are fair and free… are corrupt assholes committing fraud to obtain and maintain power?
Someone get me my clutching pearls and my wringing gloves!
What are your constant references to how glass turns into sharp, scary shards that make it unsafe to walk barefoot then?
If you wanna talk about how to move away from a disposable society, we’re all ears. If you wanna continue being combative for no reason, I’m out.
Only one being combative is you, because you cant tolerate being challenged. If you cant have an adult conversation, then don’t engage in one. And if you’re gonna participate in a discussion, read the goddamn replies, and don’t whinge about shit not being said/addressed, that has already been said/addressed.
before long people are gonna want to buy nothing but used 70s and 80s carbuerated shitboxes just to avoid all this shit.
10 bucks says all this data is being fed back to insurance companies.
They’re so goddamn needy about that shit, and why even?
because the more difficult they make it, the more likely you wont go through with it, so their numbers stay up and looking good, and they may eventually put something infront of you that’d you’d accidentally click.
true, but i dont know… feels like if your mixing your comics and your nudes on the same platform, that maybe you arent confident in your abilities and need tits to draw more attention to your art. Not a judgement, just an observation.
I know, I didn’t claim that. You seem to be arguing against using glass at all though, which is stupid.
I made no such argument, overtly or covertly. You even remotely thinking that is a failure on your part, not on mine.
I have made one single, consistent argument this entire time… And that is to address the underlying cause at the root of the issue, instead of trying to put a bandaid on it. If you could snap your fingers right now and replace all plastic usage with glass without addressing the root cause, in 20 years time we’d be having the same argument as we are now, except you’d be demanding something to replace glass on the insistence of just using a better material will magically solve the problem.
The problem won’t be solved, until the disposable society issue is addressed and solved… and that has to be addressed globally. because it doesnt matter how clean and proper China, Canada and and Cameroon are, for hypothetical example, if other countries continue to fill their rivers with trash and poisons which end up flowing out into the oceans and becoming a global problem.
I miss shopping locally.
Specially in the mall.
Hot day, in the middle of summer? Go to the mall. soak up the air conditioning, wander through the stores checking out the cool shit, grab lunch in the food court, maybe grab a movie after wards, hit up a few more stores, maybe grab a show if one was happening somewhere, then go home for dinner.
One of the first steps to getting away from a disposable society is by advocating for more non-disposable container options, like glass
I am assuming I’m the only one around here old enough to remember when it was dangerous to go barefoot because of the preponderance of broken glass everywhere due to disposable society treating glass bottles and other glass products like they treat plastic today.
Glass doesnt magically make society non disposable. As I have said, repeatedly. Getting rid of plastic wont cure a disposable society, it will only just make whatever replaces plastic the new waste dejure to end up everywhere and threaten everything in its own new ways, until you fundamentally change society by having strict fines, personal repercussions, and public shaming. . as well as education and wide spread access of disposal receptacles, and a waste recycling system that doesnt just dump 90% of its collected recyclables into a landfill.
Everyone wants to keep hyper focusing on plastic, plastic isnt the issue. Plastic is just the fever. The fever isnt what is making you sick. its the appendix about to detonate in your lower abdomen, but everyone wants to ignore the appendix and hyper focus on the fever, because the fever is easy to see.
about 30 years too late, lol
But thats gonna be one of those things thats gonna be stuck in my head for the rest of my life.