Desert Hermit

It’s not, though. Printers are actually fairly expensive to manufacture, and they’re sold heavily subsidized by the companies in order to sell you a decade of printer cartridges where you make up for that loss. It was the first tech subscription model.

If someone made and sold a shitty inkjet printer at cost, the last time I saw something written up on this years ago, it was several times more than the current cost of printers. And consumers are stupid, so they will go for the immediate cheap thing and get locked in to buying proprietary cartridges rather than invest in saving money long term.

What we need is a Graphine OS for existing printers. A repo of firmware updates that anyone can install to jailbreak a handfull of widely sold printers to allow printing every drop of ink, and DIY refills. Let’s be real, we’re not a huge part of their market, so IMO the gains are to exist like wolves preying on the occasional sheep, rather than be wolves that try to evolve thumbs and force everyone to learn how to cook and go shopping in order to eat.

It’s Forbes - if they don’t use an image in the thumbnail of a thing people know, they might as well not use anything. It’s normie-facing.

How do those conversations go? Any takers so far?

Curious if Bsky is as far as most people will dabble.

It might also be that out of 97 million daily active users, if 1/10th of 1% are attention-seeking crazies, that’s 97,000 people over-sharing at absurd levels.

Depending on who built the house, it’s the standard for a “good” house in Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia and I think Kenya.

But it has to be something from the inside by a Russian, and he’s not naive to that fact.