Actual Thoughts I've Had, Verbatim...

[user328]

Christ, I'm making typos right and left today.

#CaptSpeldrong

[user328]

The cable modem is hogging a whole power strip by its lonesome over there at the other end of the room. Meanwhile, I have a cluster fuck of cables over here. I'm gonna have to shut everything down and sort it.

[Mister Obvious]

Silica packets are often used in the homesteading/prepper vids I see where people are storing food longterm in a mason jar for example.

Let us know if you get a recurrence on the moisture.

[user328]

After cleaning up the roots and repacking them, I saw a little bit of moisture on the glass near one of the freshly cut ends, but it's gone now.

[user328]

Notes on using a dot matrix printer with Linux.

This point applies to any USB device on any system. Just because the computer displays the manufacturer name and model number of the device, that doesn't mean it knows anything about the device. That's a human readable string that the device provides upon request when it's first connected to the PC. This stage of the handshake is a USB protocol feature that almost always succeeds whether or not the device is working correctly.

Linux will install a driver, but it's probably a generic page printing driver that doesn't recognize you're using continuous feed paper. It'll waste a whole sheet of paper on a few lines of text, just like a laser or inkjet printer.

If your text editor has syntax highlighting or any color scheme besides black text on a white background, the printer probably won't print it.

If the owner's manual tells you to set the left sprocket and paper guide at 0 (zero), and the 0 mark isn't all the way to the left, ignore it and move them all the way to the left. Otherwise it'll start printing somewhere in the middle of each line.

[user328]

If the owner's manual tells you to set the left sprocket and paper guide at 0 (zero), and the 0 mark isn't all the way to the left, ignore it and move them all the way to the left. Otherwise it'll start printing somewhere in the middle of each line.

I was wrong about this part. It'll chop off the first few characters no matter what you do.

Apparently trying to print from an application will always be problematic. Using the lp command (for "line printer") from the terminal provides a workaround, and is probably the way you ought to be doing it if you're using Linux in the first place.

First, go into your system settings and set the printer's properties thusly:

Page size: A4

Resolution: 120x72 dpi

Now, in lp, you'll need to set the left margin to keep it from chopping off characters:

lp -o page-left=72 /home/username/file-to-print.txt

[Mister Obvious]

I had a thread sometime back about printers... https://www.sectual.com/thread-18890.html

I figured out the fix. You basically just buy the cheapest possible brand name printer with literally no special functions... like maybe not even a scanner because one of your 5 other printers' scanner still works fine.

It's all the touch screens and WiFi bullshit and all the other nonsense that causes the more uppity printers to fail.

[user328]

The typical budget laser printer is cheaper than this dot matrix printer, but this one will last a hell of a lot longer. One ink ribbon will print 4 million characters, and I ordered a 6-back of spare ribbons. I also got 3,500 sheets of fanfold paper with the green bars for extra nerdiness. I probably won't have to buy another printer or supplies again for the next 20 years.

[Mister Obvious]

Well I'm not a computer scientist and I'm pretty sure the world is gonna end before 20 more years, so I will just keep buying the cheapest normie printers til then...

[user328]

Here are the results of my printer McGyvering.

https://i.imgur.com/Mg8uoWQ.jpg

[user328]

I will just keep buying the cheapest normie printers til then...

... whilst sitting on my lap.

[Mister Obvious]

The green and white paper makes me feel so nostalgic.

[user328]

The green and white paper makes me feel so nostalgic.

That's why I got it, playa!

[user328]

Ever look at someone else's work and see a much easier way to do it?

Yep, I'm gonna port an image-to-ANSI script written in Python to PHP. Because I have to.

#NerdsGonnaNerd

[Mister Obvious]

Ever look at someone else's work and see a much easier way to do it?

No, but I've been guilty of thinking I know an easier way and finding out I was wronger than fuck.

[user328]

Darling, I don't embark on an adventure unless I see a clear path to the goal.

The script uses GD to get pixel colors from an image.

The author wrote a Python function to find the closet color to each pixel color in a given palette.

Buuuuuuuut...

GD already has a function for that.

My plan is to create a 256 color GIF containing all of the ANSI colors. Then GD can simply load that image to have a palette for color reduction.

[fungarascal]

lol thats an even prettier pic of you Dev you one hot lady del gato 

[user328]

Just then, a description of the suspect came in over the wire...

https://i.imgur.com/0I5E2Bd.jpg

[funngaroota]

Why you say 10 hours ive been a good boy late laltely

[user328]

Why you say 10 hours ive been a good boy late laltely

She sleeps during that time period, ya git. It has nothing to do with you.