I own a Brother laser printer from the early 2000s. I can not recall if I've ever changed its toner, just taken it out and shaken it when it's started fading. I've switched family members to laser from ink jets, because for what they were printing, they were wasting a ton of money on ink.

Lasers are the best option for text on paper, for b&w bulk and speed. They're an essential printer IMO for most. But when it comes to printing art and photos, especially on specialty papers( textured, fine art, etc. ), an ink jet can produce superior results.

I've made much of my income over the years doing art and design stuff, when I'm not doing the development stuff. And even if that were not the case, it's nice that we finally have the option of an ink tank refillable printers without doing some after market mod, that can print full color pages for pennies.

Ink Jets are great for what they do, they just needs more maintenance/care, since ink is wet.

It does and it doesn't cause a problem for most. It all depends on how you're using the printer. If you're a heavy user, the pads will eventually reach a saturation point where they are no longer that effective at sucking up the ink.

Just like an old sponge or shammy, the pads on any printer eventually reach their life. But I know from experience that Windex soaked paper towel, can greatly extend the life of any printer pads -- even get them white again.

Look for printer pad replacement and disaster. When the pads have reached their limit, the prints show it. All printers require maintenance, and now that we can print for so cheap, more people will encounter this problem. So if you own any ink tank printer, do what's necessary to avoid a deep cleaning, which soils the pads the most.

Don't just buy into the headlines. Epson still makes excellent printer and this is not a problem with newer Eco Tanks -- they have user replaceable pads. And it can be fixed with older models with a few minutes of searching.

If you've owned enough printers -- which I have going back to the nineties, these pads get saturated with ink, especially when doing a printer cleaning and also from heavy use. This is true for any printer. I've personally owned Epson and Canons.

For older consumer printers, this wasn't as big of an issue for most, because it was so expensive to print. With these newer printers, depending on the paper, it can literally be pennies to print a 8x11 photo, so people are printing more.

I ramble about this is an above post.

Read past the headlines. I'm being an Epson apologist, because there's a legit reason for why this is happening and there are easy solutions for older models. It's better to get an error message IMO, than having your prints destroyed.

And speaking from experience instead of just reacting to the headline -- which we are all guilty of on occasion, there's a legit reason for this, and there are solutions.

For starters, Epson's newer ECO tanks, the ET photo series have addressed this issue. They have a user replaceable maintained box(pads). But with older printers, you can still get around this with a bit research, which I'll go into below -- there are plenty of how to videos on YouTube.

When Epson throws up this error message, those pads are saturated with ink. Imagine trying to soak up water with an already wet sponge.

If you get this message on an older EcoTank, with a bit of searching you'll find a utility that will reset it. But you will still need to clean the pads, which from experience Windex is the best option. The pads will be filed with what looks like black ink, so prepare for a mess.

For future reference, one way extend the life of the pads on any printer -- given that you're not printing full page images day in and out, is to simply use the printer at least once a week.

So print a maintenance check, the pattern. This greatly limits how often the printer will need to do an ink-sucking-deep-cleaning; which is what soils the pads more than anything else. This also helps to prevents the inks from drying out, which is especially true with pigment inks; which are expensive.

Disclaimer, I bought an ET-8500, along with extra ink -- enough for 5 to 10 years of printing along with an extra Maintenance Box -- which solves the problem of earlier Epson Eco tanks. Prints that would have cost 2 - 5 bucks on my older Epson printers are now pennies to print. The paper is now the most expensive part of a print, where as it was the ink.

I have no complaints with printer. It provides Inexpensive excellent prints and I now have more ink than I have paper to print on -- which is a first. So don't fret about buying a printer like this, just because someone Tweeted. Always do your research to state the obvious.

Quicktime 2.0 had an autostart feature, and it was exploited.

I worked for a marketing company in the later nineties. Every Mac in the art department was infected and re-infected by the Autostart Worm off and on, until we could finally disable the autostart feature -- which wasn't until Quicktime 2.5:
https://lowendmac.com/virus/wo...

Our IT guy at the time was getting really annoyed, as this stupid worm kept on popping up. But I don't recall it being much more than an annoyance and fairly easy to remove. :)

As the other person pointed out, they dumped AtGames and went with M2 for emulation on their new Mini -- which was released the other year.
https://genesismini.sega.com/

I've been really happy with mine. I turn it on almost every day. It sounds great and it performs great. For reference, I have 3 Genesis in my office, and one of those AtGame abominations -- it was given to me.

I did mod my Mini to add more games and bump up the clock speed on its CPU, but even before that the performance was not an issue. But then again, my brain can not perceive the difference in latency between Sonic running on real hardware through a CRT, and the Mini running through a modern flat screen. So take that for what it is.

Biden's administration canceled its lease right when they got into office.

https://www.kvrr.com/2022/01/2...

A drive that transfers 14GBs is announced, and you're bothered about the need for cooling? Cooling is what increases reliability. And they already have M.2 extender cables. :)

Heat has always been an issue for storage, especially with the higher RPM mechanical drives. My 10k drives and even my 7200 RPM drives were very hot to the touch without cooling -- I used a USB fan to cool my 2.5" external FireWire drives, and my 3.5" external drives had aluminum cases with external fins and an internal fan.

I have a good friend that ran an HD recovery business for over a decade, and he stated that it was heat that killed HDs.

About this donor pig that's genetically altered, will it be eaten?

When JetBrains no longer offers a perpetual license fallback for their products, I will no longer update the products I use now. But as of now, I have no complaints. I bought IDEA back in 2012 and was given a free upgrade to 2015. I used that up until last month and was about to upgrade to the latest version, but then noticed that PHPStorm does everything I need in web development for less. I've been really happy working in PHPStorm. Everything I like about IDEA is in this editor.

Emissions would be reduced!

Why? You kind of answered your own question, as in it's still fun and some of use are just getting into C64 coding. For some of us, it's fun to revisit and outside of nostalgia there's a charm about these old school machines that has been lost with newer stuff. There's still a healthy community of 8-Bit developers out there making games and demos for this older hardware. Stuff that really pushes the limits and would have been considered impossible back in the eighties.

I happily just bought a C64 Maxi when they finally came back in stock. I was looking for a real Commodore, but they're getting pricey and are rather rare in my area. ( I also own an Amiga, several 486/Pentiums, and old consoles ), overall it's a fun hobby IMO.

If Cobal and Fortran were the go to for games, IMO, people would totally be writing stuff for it today.

Anyways, looking forward to the Mega65 when it's finally available. It's my dream computer, more so than any future workstation I'll own, no matter how powerful and capable the GPU(s).

That can reliably power a Phased Plasma Rifle in the 40 wat range.

There's and entire community devoted to hooking up old analogue devices( classic game consoles ) to modern TVs. Depending on how much you spend, or how comfortable you are with a soldering iron, you'll be able to get an excellent image outputted to your HD set.

But most of us old NERDs still own CRTs. I have a TV/VCR combo, Commodore 1702 Monitor, and a handful of CRT monitors. The TV I still use for entertainment is a color corrected Plasma, which looks wonderful by today's standards and for older content it's superior IMO.

But only certain movies and only if they're in a paper box. I didn't do so because others were doing so, I did so because I like eighties nostalgia. The old VHS tapes go well with my old game boxes, vintage PCs, and classic consoles.

I'm also making sure I own all the movies and music I like on physical media, since Streaming services think it's OK to go back and edit/delete content that might be considered offensive by an extreme minority's standards as of today.