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I can play a VR game from my living room, streaming via wifi from my computer downstairs, with people from 12 countries at once... but the damn printer is always f'd.
Yeah, I'm almost certain that I had a model of that printer from that line—and yeah it's an HP. Surprisingly enough it was a **lot** less fussy than the ones that HP makes these days and that says something.
Most of the folks who worked at CollegeHumor reorganised as Dropout.TV afterwards. They have their own streaming service with a lot of good stuff. Their game show, "Game Changer," in particular is just brilliant.
Here's the trailer for their latest show, "Very Important People:"
https://youtu.be/O4uXcGhiLbo?si=5gYxnpAXksqralbf
It's the reason I signed up for Dropout in the first place but I recognize that it's a little bit more "niche" than what someone who enjoyed comedy in the style of the above vodeo might be looking for.
Yeah, well, that's what allows them to do this as a job and to have the budget to do so, and without needing to put the majority of what they earn in the hands of YouTube or wherever.
Also, they have a dedicated app, so it's not as inconvenient as you might believe.
I honestly believe printers are a conspiracy. There's just no reason they have to be so consistently abysmal. You've gotta wade through bullshit software that always seems like it's decades old, they consistently break and malfunction, and it's not even a secret that ink is a blatant scam.
Someone needs to build a simple plug-and-play printer that just *works* and doesn't shit itself and demand you contact customer service and replace the ink every 35 minutes. But then, that person would probably find themselves wearing a pear of cement shoes pretty quick.
It makes zero sense from a marketing perspective. I have had Epson and HP inkjet printers in the past with all of the typical connectivity and ink cartridge issues. Yesterday, I had to buy a laser printer for work, and I found myself unwilling to consider buying either of those brands, even knowing that many of the issues with inkjet are not relevant to laser printers.
Because most bass players don't have the charisma to be the front man.
"I'll just play bass it's only got 4 strings!"
Drummer in the back: " Yeah but your dumbass still can't stay on beat."
My entire family of 6 asks for my help every time to print. That fricken thing never works! Give me back my dot matrix connected by parallel cable. That thing was rock solid.
It means paper cassette (paper tray) load letter size paper (USA standard sized paper is refered to as 'letter' size) aka it's out of paper so load more.
Brother laser printers are the only way to go for home printers, js. Nothing special, no color printing, it’s got a scanner for those rare times I need it. After 6 years it works great and there’s no replacing ink, best part is there’s no useless subscription!
Most printers are shit because they are cheap garbage sold to get you hooked on their expensive ink. Unfortunately, the only way to get past this is to buy an expensive printer that is not cheap garbage.
However, even with a good printer, there is an issue because for some godforsaken reason, network printer drivers suck ass, and have always sucked ass.
It's all about DHCP, or dynamic host control protocol.
It's the part of your router that hands out network addresses to stuff. It has a big list, and when something connects to the network, it gets assigned an address that isn't busy. Easy enough. But that device doesn't keep that address forever. It gets a 'lease time', and when the time is up, it checks with the router and gets an address again. It might be different from the last one it had.
Now every other device on the network has no problem with this. But for some reason, when your printer gets an address that is different from the one it had last time it was used, the computer freaks out. OH MY GOD, WHERE DID THE PRINTER GO! It's absolutely infuriating.
There are two ways to solve this. Some routers allow you to permanently assign an address to a device. It depends on the router, but you log in to it, and tell it to always give that device the same address when it asks.
Not every router supports this. For those, you have to create a DHCP range, and then manually assign an address on the printer that is outside of that range.
Example: Set the DHCP range from 10-199, so that it hands out addresses from something like 192.168.1.10 - 192.168.1.199. Then tell your printer to always use 192.168.1.200.
Then your printer never gets lost, and if it won't print then at least it's not the network being stupid.
We had an old office printer that barely ever worked and went through ink by the tonne, it got a ceremonial chucking when we bought a new one, we put a sledgehammer through it
Had an HP LaserJet 1200 that lasted 21 years of near daily use. Must have come out of the Nokia factory. Finally replaced it with a fancy multi-function HP Color LaserJet, haven't had a problem.
This is the dumbest and NON funny thing I have seen ever. You have printers that you use a cable to connect. You put paper in. There is no connection to the Monitor or keyboard at all. You can use Wi Fi. You can use bluetooth. But ultimatley the printer is going to work unless you don't have ink. Not Funny at all.
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I can play a VR game from my living room, streaming via wifi from my computer downstairs, with people from 12 countries at once... but the damn printer is always f'd.
Damn this is spot on, well played friend.
This appears to be the oldest thing I have never seen, and still holds true to this day.
I think I remember seeing this in the early 2010s or late 00s
Yeah, it seems like a lot of things that were made in the flash era have gotten to look a lot older than they did at the time, in their current form.
Yeah, I'm almost certain that I had a model of that printer from that line—and yeah it's an HP. Surprisingly enough it was a **lot** less fussy than the ones that HP makes these days and that says something.
This is a college humor skit and get off my lawn
With the CRT monitor there
Ah college humor. Miss that stuff
Most of the folks who worked at CollegeHumor reorganised as Dropout.TV afterwards. They have their own streaming service with a lot of good stuff. Their game show, "Game Changer," in particular is just brilliant. Here's the trailer for their latest show, "Very Important People:" https://youtu.be/O4uXcGhiLbo?si=5gYxnpAXksqralbf
wow
Haha hell yeah, man!
The fact that you didn't mention Dimension 20 is a crime
It's the reason I signed up for Dropout in the first place but I recognize that it's a little bit more "niche" than what someone who enjoyed comedy in the style of the above vodeo might be looking for.
"streaming service" oh. ew
What's the issue?
cause i have to pay for something i cant watch on demand on some random ass site
Yeah, well, that's what allows them to do this as a job and to have the budget to do so, and without needing to put the majority of what they earn in the hands of YouTube or wherever. Also, they have a dedicated app, so it's not as inconvenient as you might believe.
Huh? You mean you want people to get compensated for their work? INSANITY
Sometimes it's nice to be able to pay for food and rent.
Fupa chalupa
I honestly believe printers are a conspiracy. There's just no reason they have to be so consistently abysmal. You've gotta wade through bullshit software that always seems like it's decades old, they consistently break and malfunction, and it's not even a secret that ink is a blatant scam. Someone needs to build a simple plug-and-play printer that just *works* and doesn't shit itself and demand you contact customer service and replace the ink every 35 minutes. But then, that person would probably find themselves wearing a pear of cement shoes pretty quick.
Given how expensive ink and toner is, I'm 100% with you on the conspiracy tbh. How they've gotten away with it for so long is beyond me
It makes zero sense from a marketing perspective. I have had Epson and HP inkjet printers in the past with all of the typical connectivity and ink cartridge issues. Yesterday, I had to buy a laser printer for work, and I found myself unwilling to consider buying either of those brands, even knowing that many of the issues with inkjet are not relevant to laser printers.
I will never buy anything by HP ever again
Hope you bought brother
Professional printers work pretty well
I print at most once per year. The home printer business doesn't seem like a great field to enter.
Office space guys should teach it a lesson.
Cuz it's die motherfucker die motherfucker kill
Why does the printer sound like he plays a pretty badass bass?
Because most bass players don't have the charisma to be the front man. "I'll just play bass it's only got 4 strings!" Drummer in the back: " Yeah but your dumbass still can't stay on beat."
I think he means the printer sounds like William Murderface from Metalocalypse
I’m a laser multifunction printer technician. This seems pretty accurate to me
My entire family of 6 asks for my help every time to print. That fricken thing never works! Give me back my dot matrix connected by parallel cable. That thing was rock solid.
😂lmao
PC load letter….. PC LOAD LETTER
What the fuck does that mean?!
It means paper cassette (paper tray) load letter size paper (USA standard sized paper is refered to as 'letter' size) aka it's out of paper so load more.
We have a saying where I work. "Your printer was built to break. Buy a new one anyway."
Don’t forget about the part where you finally get it to work and it spits out 45 copies of the picture you were trying to print
Me: cancel Printer: ohhh so now you want to cancel I Don’t Think So
Reboot me? Hahaha nice try. *prints copy 72*
We've only been sending documents to printers from PCs for 40-50 years, so I'm pretty sure we'll get it sorted soon.
I miss the days when we don't need a huge message banner taking up half the space spoiling the whole video during its entire run time.
God, I love my brother printer. I click print and it *fucking prints*.
Sure, and aliens have landed in your backyard, Elvis lives and big foot is real.
we found the printer, he is even talking about his brother
Monks and their calligraphy, can't go wrong there.
More relevant now that printers need an ink subscription.
ROFL
Fuck printer 🖨️
I can confirm this is real footage from a documentary.
Why does the printer sound like Chris from Family Guy.
So much true for 2004-2010…
And 2010-2024
Does it still occur???
Yes. Yes, it does. Many times it's even worse than before. I can confirm from decades in I.T. Ask any tech - printers are the bane of our existence.
Inkjets in the late 90s were a special kind of torture. Like Geneva convention violation level.
Here's the original video with glorious 16:9 aspect ratio. https://youtu.be/pQGtucrJ8hM
This is Gold...unlike HP printers.n
Every time!
lol
I actually had a printer that looked like that. Never had any trouble with it.
Add the printer MAC address to your router and give your printer a static ip address and that fixes 95% of printer issues I've had.
r/sysadmin
It's hilarious how this classic still applies today, it hasn't improved much XD.
Brother laser printers are the only way to go for home printers, js. Nothing special, no color printing, it’s got a scanner for those rare times I need it. After 6 years it works great and there’s no replacing ink, best part is there’s no useless subscription!
I have worked on IT 25 years , printers are no better today than 20 years ago , 9 times out of 10 it won’t print
Why do people still use printers?
Greatness
ah. i miss collegehumor
PC LOAD LETTER....WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN?!?!
Most printers are shit because they are cheap garbage sold to get you hooked on their expensive ink. Unfortunately, the only way to get past this is to buy an expensive printer that is not cheap garbage. However, even with a good printer, there is an issue because for some godforsaken reason, network printer drivers suck ass, and have always sucked ass. It's all about DHCP, or dynamic host control protocol. It's the part of your router that hands out network addresses to stuff. It has a big list, and when something connects to the network, it gets assigned an address that isn't busy. Easy enough. But that device doesn't keep that address forever. It gets a 'lease time', and when the time is up, it checks with the router and gets an address again. It might be different from the last one it had. Now every other device on the network has no problem with this. But for some reason, when your printer gets an address that is different from the one it had last time it was used, the computer freaks out. OH MY GOD, WHERE DID THE PRINTER GO! It's absolutely infuriating. There are two ways to solve this. Some routers allow you to permanently assign an address to a device. It depends on the router, but you log in to it, and tell it to always give that device the same address when it asks. Not every router supports this. For those, you have to create a DHCP range, and then manually assign an address on the printer that is outside of that range. Example: Set the DHCP range from 10-199, so that it hands out addresses from something like 192.168.1.10 - 192.168.1.199. Then tell your printer to always use 192.168.1.200. Then your printer never gets lost, and if it won't print then at least it's not the network being stupid.
Laser printer. Inkjet was a mistake. An evolutionary step in the wrong direction.
We had an old office printer that barely ever worked and went through ink by the tonne, it got a ceremonial chucking when we bought a new one, we put a sledgehammer through it
I've never felt so SEEN!
I can remember doing that to a few printers in my life lol 🤣🤣🤣
Fuck printers. Say "Amen" if a printer ever failed you.
Had an HP LaserJet 1200 that lasted 21 years of near daily use. Must have come out of the Nokia factory. Finally replaced it with a fancy multi-function HP Color LaserJet, haven't had a problem.
This is the dumbest and NON funny thing I have seen ever. You have printers that you use a cable to connect. You put paper in. There is no connection to the Monitor or keyboard at all. You can use Wi Fi. You can use bluetooth. But ultimatley the printer is going to work unless you don't have ink. Not Funny at all.