• OpenSourceDeezNuts@sh.itjust.works
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      I just bought one last week and holy shit you aren’t joking. Our Canon was malfunctioning for the last 2 years, so I finally bought a refurbed B&W Brother Laser. I’ve never had a printer just work like this. I didn’t even have to connect to it. My browser just automatically detected it, even on Linux.

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      My wife would always call it World War 3 whenever I would go to print something with my inkjet. Finally bought a Brother colour laser a couple years ago. While my distrust of printers is still deep seeded, this printer and I are approaching something of a friendship.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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      I was just going to comment the same. My Brother laser printer has simply done its job for the last 13 years without issue.

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      I just bought a new printer. After reading lots of reviews, it came down to Brother color laser and Canon color laser. Consensus seemed to be Canon was equally reliable with slightly better color quality.

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    In all fairness, my cheap Brother laser printer hasn’t let me down at all. Unlike the HP inkjets of the past.

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      my wife was having some problems finding the right W11 drivers for our Brother HL-2030 and dared to utter the thought of replacing it

      I shut that down right quick

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      I bought mine (HL2270-DW) 12 years ago for college. Last week I plugged it in after it sat for several years and printed off some stuff for family with 0 problems. I think it’s only on its second toner as well.

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        Still the exact same printer my family has been using for the past 10 years after our old Inkjet kicked the bucket a measly 3 months after it was born. And it has seen some stuff, including being dropped at least twice, plastic film in the paper compartment, coffee-stained (for aged effect) paper, and even a x-acto knife blade that somehow ended up in there.

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        They last much longer in storage /without printing because toner is a powder, so it can’t dry out. The print head of an inkjet printer (part of the cartridge) will dry out if you don’t use it for a few weeks.

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        Heck, even my 7 year old HP laserprinter is doing just fine, still

        Granted, I print like 70 pages a year, but that’s still better than the inktjet before!

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    Linux/Cups. Postscript. Laser. Have never had a problem. Printers not working is a “put the logic in the Windoze driver” problem vs telling a good printer “Print this”.

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        You must be amazingly lucky. Bluetooth has been nothing but issues for me for 15 years of use, across a plethora of host and client devices, OSes, mobile and desktop, all Bluetooth versions, proprietary implementations (game controllers), cheap devices, expensive devices, ranges, etc. Bluetooth has improved a lot in the past 5 years, but it’s still not good enough imo. A PS5 controller can’t stay reliably connected to my steam deck that is docked by my TV while I am sitting on my couch, yet an Xbox controller with a wifi-based USB dongle works fine.

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          wow, maybe i never used bluetooth to much because i never run into that issues, to be fair of the ps5 the driver is still immature(and community made, so it’s more slow to be implemented) and the steam deck need to update the kernel for the drivers fixes