<midfavila>
looking at some of louis' other videos has got me thinking that starting a gadget shop might actually be more viable than i thought
<midfavila>
like
<midfavila>
literally all i would need to do to make fucking *bank* is design a printer that isn't ass and then not gouge people for ink
<shokara>
create a phone repair shop and secretly install replicant or postmarketos on their phones
<midfavila>
you couldn't pay me to work on smartphones
<midfavila>
or tablets
<midfavila>
or even modern laptops
<midfavila>
i refuse
<shokara>
true, it's painfuul
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<shokara>
but what about good little macbooks?
<midfavila>
if I *did* have a repair shop, i would charge you extra to have me work on an apple device, purely so you would fuck off
<shokara>
would that extra fee be more than what apple themselves charge?
<midfavila>
yes.
<shokara>
nice
<midfavila>
parts plus service plus an explicit apple tax because fuck you.
<midfavila>
but yeah like idk make a printer that isn't shit, sell ink in bulk, sell some little household electronic goods, generally just not be a piece of garbage
<midfavila>
bing bang boom business plan.
<shokara>
How would you create the Windows 12^tm driver?
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<midfavila>
good question :D
<midfavila>
would need to look into it if I were to actually try it in a serious manner
<shokara>
and also a macos driver
<shokara>
though I think that should be less painful because of cups?
<midfavila>
pretty sure UEFI has some sort of universal driver interface
<midfavila>
but don't quote me on that
* shokara
wonders if apple still maintains cups with everyone else
<midfavila>
other possibility, perhaps easier in the long run, would be to use a super shitty SBC to control all of the printer hardware and stuff and then just run an embedded OS on that to expose a soft interface via the network
<shokara>
I think that's what some printers and scanners do
<midfavila>
plug the "printer" in via USB and it shows up basically as a file storage device, drag and drop your file into the printer directory, and the machine's computer receives the file, checks if it's valid, and then spools and prints it
<shokara>
at least for providing the web interface and wifi stuff
<midfavila>
like if you look at ancient printers that's basically what they did
<midfavila>
at least postscript machines did, sometimes
<shokara>
that reminds me of how one gba cartridge dumper works
<midfavila>
apple's original postscript printer had better specs than the top of the line mac at the time iirc
<midfavila>
you just dumped postscript over a link and called it a day
<shokara>
apparently some printers still let you do that, but I haven't gotten it to work with mine :(
<midfavila>
i ought to get a SuperIO card at some point that actually works with my PC
<midfavila>
i have a fully functional okidata microline 321 turbo printer sitting on a spare desk with 2k sheets of paper and like five years' worth of ink
<shokara>
how would I force remove a package in kiss?
<midfavila>
set KISS_FORCE to 1
<shokara>
thanks
<midfavila>
oh my GOD the next time a browser's video playback shits out i'm going to fucking scream
<midfavila>
"why don't you just use a regular browser mid", "why don't you use a regular media player mid", "why don't you just use youtube mid" because NONE of it works better than my shitty shell script i hacked together in ten minutes FUCK
<shokara>
why would you ever use the browser's video player?
<midfavila>
i've been on slackware the past few days
<shokara>
what's wrong with ffplay?
<midfavila>
i'm too lazy to copy my scripts over and wire everything together on slackware
<midfavila>
but i do use ffplay there sometimes
<shokara>
an rsync/scp away...
<midfavila>
nah, a mount;cp away
<midfavila>
even less effort lmao
<shokara>
even faster then
<midfavila>
oh i also found out that glibc doesn't seem to like apport
<midfavila>
it can't find getopt(3) despite me including unistd
<midfavila>
so that's mmmmmmmawesome
<shokara>
very fun
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