I also like the wide range of sources to pull down content and have it available vs sometimes having to wrestle with a streaming site in the moment.

None taken! I have already moved on to laser printers. It is literally one less problem in my house. I can’t imagine freaking out and trying to get just a few more pages from my printer, but I was there once.

Sometimes you could rescue them by blotting them on an alcohol soaked paper towel.

The real cost of an inkjet is that one needs to buy ink regardless of whether they print. It tends to dry out over a few months. If you don’t happen to use all the 100-200 pages, the money is wasted.

In the past, just because the printer was on sale, I have been able to buy a cheap printer for less than new ink.

I bought a brother a couple of years ago for just under $200. That was the cost of 4 sets of ink. I have replaced the toner a couple of times at $17 each. Each replacement has lasted me a few thousand pages.

This was a replacement to a pair of brother printers of the same model I obtained via yard sale for a total cost of $10. These yard sale printers would have lasted longer if not for small children and dogs.

I have probably printed 6k pages for the cost of $180 over the course of several years. Most of the printing has been school work for kids and forms in general.

Someone actually wrote that? It reads like AI generated fluff.

IIRC the vendors were obligated to identify themselves. Some of the vendors were just people making hardware mods, too.

I had only heard that there wasn’t much merit to multiple layers of compression as there is only so much compression that can be done.

One similar solution to OP here is tarballs.

Don’t forget flac, which was playable on many devices.

So does Chuck e Cheese, or did recently?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/chuck-e-cheese-animatronic-floppy-disks

That was true until the early 00s when people were getting destroyed in court for mp3 sharing.

Pretty sure they meant theft of the theoretical car that might have been sold to you if you could afford it.

/s

My sarcasm detector is making strange noises. We may have a false positive here!

Hey, I loved watching people nerd out on their flashlights! Actually, I was there to get insight on how they were building their own awesome lights, and trying to understand what the difference between lights was.