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@captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months ago

Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer

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Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer

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@captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months ago
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Instead of doom-scrolling through my phone in the morning, I built an alternative with a Raspberry Pi, a dot matrix printer, and some PHP.
  • hotspur
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    Man, I wonder if it’s challenging to source a steady supply of paper for that thing…

    • @HejMedDig@feddit.dk
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      5•9 months ago

      Apparently not… Is it somehow still widely used. It’s the most likely paper to give you paper cuts though https://physicsworld.com/a/researchers-cut-to-the-chase-on-the-physics-of-paper-cuts/

      • @atrielienz@lemmy.world
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        1•9 months ago

        Yeah. Airlines still use it for log books and reports.

      • hotspur
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        1•9 months ago

        Wild would never have guessed. Maybe because it’s possible for it to print as a continuous sheet, and I guess it comes in big rolls, etc.

    • @jqubed@lemmy.world
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      4•9 months ago

      And ink?

      • @db2@lemmy.world
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        9•9 months ago

        *ribbons

      • hotspur
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        Haha yeah also that.

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