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Old 02-12-2025, 04:46 AM   #2446
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I use Brother printers and third-party cartridges. I haven't noticed any colour fidelity problems, but I'm not doing any high-end colour work.
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Old 02-12-2025, 06:38 AM   #2447
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Maybe depends on which 3rd party. I've used 3rd party colour carts on Brother lasers for years with no problem. Also Brother supports Linux and doesn't have the shenanigans of HP. Was the HP laserjet IV the peak? Their inkjet never as good as Brother or Epson, or even Canon.

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I've not had an Epson inkjet for years and most entry level inkjects from anyone seem predicated on making profit from cartridges. I'd only buy an Epson or Brother that took the big tanks. The ink cartridges are a scam.

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Old 02-12-2025, 10:42 AM   #2448
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Most of the people I know have swapped their inkjet printers for ones that use refill cartridges.
Or laser printers for low volume printing because toner cartridges don't dry out. I've been running on the same Brother cartridge for... um... something like 10 years. With a piece of tape over the optical sensor hole to disable the toner low sensor.
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Old 02-12-2025, 11:48 AM   #2449
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Why, when you try to troubleshoot an issue, do the recommended fixes jump from things any idiot already thought up and tried herself to "Inspect the logxmuz, delete all paqimngs, install punbvgtt and run oiunyutr"? Why is there no middle ground for the technically clunky but teachable?
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Old 02-12-2025, 11:55 AM   #2450
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Why, when you try to troubleshoot an issue, do the recommended fixes jump from things any idiot already thought up and tried herself to "Inspect the logxmuz, delete all paqimngs, install punbvgtt and run oiunyutr"? Why is there no middle ground for the technically clunky but teachable?
Install dodgywindowsrepairtool.exe.
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Old 02-12-2025, 12:40 PM   #2451
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Why, when you try to troubleshoot an issue, do the recommended fixes jump from things any idiot already thought up and tried herself to "Inspect the logxmuz, delete all paqimngs, install punbvgtt and run oiunyutr"? Why is there no middle ground for the technically clunky but teachable?
You don't have the special code word for the call centre?
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/ind...:_Tech_Support
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Old 02-12-2025, 12:56 PM   #2452
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Why, when you try to troubleshoot an issue, do the recommended fixes jump from things any idiot already thought up and tried herself to "Inspect the logxmuz, delete all paqimngs, install punbvgtt and run oiunyutr"? Why is there no middle ground for the technically clunky but teachable?
Because when the commonly recommended troubleshooting steps don't work, the problem ends up being something weird or esoteric, and there are no middle ground answers.

Like right now I'm trying to get one of two Windows workstations to use WSL2 and it won't. I did something to disable Hyper-V two years ago, and reversing the steps isn't undoing whatever I did. The other workstation I did this on reverted just fine. Weird and esoteric.
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Old 02-12-2025, 01:09 PM   #2453
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Maybe depends on which 3rd party. I've used 3rd party colour carts on Brother lasers for years with no problem. Also Brother supports Linux and doesn't have the shenanigans of HP. Was the HP laserjet IV the peak? Their inkjet never as good as Brother or Epson, or even Canon.

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I've not had an Epson inkjet for years and most entry level inkjects from anyone seem predicated on making profit from cartridges. I'd only buy an Epson or Brother that took the big tanks. The ink cartridges are a scam.
I don't have a problem with ink cartridges as long as they are single color. What I do have a problem are printers with one ink cartridge that contains all of the colors. That to me is a scam because if one color runs out you have to replace the entire cartridge even if there is plenty of ink for the other colors.
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Old 02-12-2025, 01:14 PM   #2454
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Like right now I'm trying to get one of two Windows workstations to use WSL2 and it won't.
I use WSL to do operations on ext4 partitions with shared blocks. I run it from Windows using GCC make (from the Android NDK) using a combination of Windows and Linux commands. It works very well.
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Old 02-12-2025, 01:21 PM   #2455
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I use WSL to do operations on ext4 partitions with shared blocks. I run it from Windows using GCC make (from the Android NDK) using a combination of Windows and Linux commands. It works very well.
WSL itself is great. My specific case though is I broke something and I haven't been able to fix it.
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I just meant that I've had good luck. It was pretty painless.
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