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Even paper glows (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure this measure was requested either by the government or some big three letter agency.

I doubt that, if all printers were manufactured by a government monopoly, you wouldn't have this shit baked in. It would probably be way worse

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm not at all asking for a government monopoly on making printers, if that wasn't clear.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Open source printers

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Use the 3D printer to make the 2D printer. Finally, we are moving in the right direction.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

You can tape a pen to your 3d printer to use it as a plotter.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Honestly, yes. I love open source hardware

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's insufferable how people will respond to "We shouldn't let corporations do this" with "OK SO YOU WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO DO IT?!?!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's insufferable that the answer is always "build your own." Lemmy assumes that every single person on the planet is an engineer with enough free time to design, build, and troubleshoot every device they own.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's based in rugged hypercapitalist bootstrap thinking. If something is broken just do it yourself! Even though that's never realistic, and even if it were, no one person can or should be expected to do everything.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I do think it shoukd be left up to (potentially big) companies; however, we should put restrictions on e.g. ink cartrige compatibility, just like what the EU is trying for smartphones and messagin right now.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It was requested by the secret service as a countermeasure for counterfitting. More frequently it's been used to "catch other criminals", at least that's what they say.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

More frequently it's been used to "catch other criminals"

Germans are used to this already. It's called "Salamitaktik" (pushed piece a piece).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I see. Sort of like what the Republicans/fascists are doing with, well, everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It helps catch morons copying classified materials.