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Inkjet: makes numbers in your bank account go down.
This is not a meme.
Nope it is I missread it
Laser printers don't burn anything. They make static on paper that ink/toner clings to.
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inkjet printers have a purpose. it's to extort you for money.
Technically SSDs will forget numbers too if left disconnected from power and in a hot room
That's like saying HDDs will forget numbers if you store them next to a powerful magnet. Most SSDs have an operating range up to 70°C, so that hot room would have to be more like an oven.
Not the whitepaper research paper I was trying to reference but if you read just below the temp chart image is explains similar info about how quick SSD (unpowered) data loss is based on ambient heat. HDD while also succeptible to data loss is a better archive medium than SSD https://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-retention
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That's like saying HDDs will forget numbers if you store them next to a powerful magnet.
Or drive a nail into them. Granted, most of these devices will stop functioning if you do that...
That is why I Ilisted the unpowered/ unplugged. there are white papers on ssd data loss when it is disconnected from mobo and stored. The lack of trickle power allows decay in the mem cells simce they are just packed charges, and heat accelerates that loss. They said in as little as a week in a hot room it will have started bit rot. And in some cases a few months in a hot space (say 40 degrees in summer heat we have) and data is gone.
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I'm guessing the original commenter lives in an uninsulated tin shack in the Arizona desert.
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The CPU should probably be replaced by a ALU in the image. But it's kinda hard to get a good shot of the ALU.
You could use like a 74181, or one of the vintage bitslice ALUs.
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I could have used this when I was a kid playing games and would go "sorry, my cpu is bad" whenever I had lag issues even though the cpu was actually okay and it was really because of playing on a laptop with integrated graphics and a spotty internet connection, because at the time I thought CPU was just a short way of saying ComPUter...
Could be worse: you could've been one of those people who called their CRT monitor the "computer" and called the computer the "hard drive".
I think think for awhile as a very young kid I thought the former (by the time I learned about hard drives I knew what a monitor and computer were), but in my defense, my first exposure to computers and what my family had at that age was one of those old imac computers that really did have the screen and the computer in the same device.
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As long ask you know the difference between computer and Hard Drive...
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Ecotank inkjet printer
Yes
They literally can't drm liquid ink that you pour into ink tanks
I thought the joke here was that even when they're not locked your average inkjet printer is a hot pile of garbage machinery that works only when the planets align and you've sacrificed 3 goats and a your firstborn.
Meanwhile laster jet printers work most of the time except when they don't.
Edit: one time I wanted to buy more ink for my inkjet and there was a brand new inkjet printer that came with ink that was less expensive than a new cartridge. (Of the same size)
The new printer was $30 and worked just as poorly as my $150 inkjet.
I've done printer maintenance for years among other things and inkjets are literally designed and manufactured in the deepest layer of hell.
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They will, they will add a nano particle that is sensed by printer
All the ones i've seen have sponges and waste tanks that still act as an expensive consumables.
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HP: Hold my cartridge
I mean, hypothetically couldn't they mix some proprietary chemical formula into the ink and incorporates some device that analyses the ink chemistry and doesn't print if that proprietary mixture is not present?
Personally I think HP is missing the point focusing on putting drm on inkjet refills, it is only half committing to the business strategy.
The existence of a finished, printed paper begins at the moment of conception when the customer conceives of wanting to print a document. Really every step after that point (including the conception step itself) is monetizable by HP and more importantly rightfully owned as intellectual property of HP that you are technically stealing if you don’t follow through with actually printing the document on an HP printer.
HP is just leaving all of that money on the table, or maybe the printer market is just too heavily regulated for HP to innovate properly in a healthy free market.
They should DRM every drop of ink.
100% Real DRM In Every Drop!
The problem is that they can't control open source drivers. They could, however, release a printer that ran on proprietary closed source drivers. But they'd have to spend money on developers to maintain that code whereas right now, drivers are more or less stable and developed for free.
What they could do is require the use of HP printer paper, with embedded RFID or watermarks that would be readable by HP printers. I'm honestly surprised they haven't gone down this road.
Some photo printers do
See this is exactly what I am talking about when I say HP is leaving money on the table here, when thinking about these topics you just utilized the intellectual property of the following products for self improvement, recreation and social benefit:
Economically Recoverable Use Of Products By Thought (ER-UOPBT)
HP EcoPrecision Advanced Document Rendering Suite™ (HP EDARS™)
For the simple act of translating your document into printer-readable format.
HP SmartCartridge Alignment Pro+ System™ (HP SCAPS™)
Ensures your ink cartridges are perfectly aligned for each print, for the low price of continued subscription.
HP QuantumInk Subscription Service™ (HP QISS™)
Provides monthly ink deliveries while monitoring your ink levels remotely through quantum encryption.
HP PrintAssure Secure Environment Technology™ (HP PASET™)
An exclusive service that creates a secure printing tunnel to protect your documents from prying eyes.
HP PaperLoad Ultimate Feed Mechanism™ (HP PLUFM™)
A premium paper tray enhancement that promises to handle even the thinnest paper without a single jam.
HP ColorSync Precision Match™ (HP CSPM™)
A color management system that requires regular calibration via an online service to maintain color accuracy.
HP PageSense Automated Counting Service™ (HP PACS™)
A cloud-based page counting solution to ensure you're billed for each dot of ink on the paper.
HP IntelliConnect Wi-Fi Booster Pack™ (HP IWBP™)
A proprietary Wi-Fi extension service designed to maintain a robust connection between your devices and the printer.
HP ClearText Font Rendering Optimization™ (HP CFRO™)
A patented font enhancement service that sharpens the text on your prints, available in 12-month access packages.
HP OneTouch Print Harmony Experience™ (HP OTPHE™)
A personalized one-button printing interface that's locked behind a bi-monthly membership fee.
HP Printalytics Predictive Maintenance Hub™ (HP PPMH™)
An AI-driven analysis tool that predicts printer issues and schedules interventions, all reportable to your HP Premium Support Account Manager.
HP UltraPrint Resolution Enhancement Layer™ (HP UREL™)
A downloadable print resolution enhancement that requires a special code from your HP Print Quality Loyalty Program.
HP FirstSheet FastTrack Technology™ (HP FFST™)
Speeds up the printing of the first page of any document after a minor upgrade to your printer firmware.
HP WhisperMode Acoustic Dampening Service™ (HP WMADS™)
A subscription-based service to reduce printer noise with each cycle, for a more serene office environment.
Thus you are clearly already a customer of HP, and the exchange of HP giving your mind the imaginative capacity (Thought-As-A-Service) to visualize a printed document it is only reasonable to bundle with a subscription you pay to HP.
Are you going to tell me the US Supreme Court isn't dumb enough to make this federal law? Also, if you think my joke was wayyy too much of a logical stretch to make any sense you should see what these people think about women and their bodies.
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Ram is closest to human short term memory
Our minds dump its contents to permanent memory when we sleep
My ram just dumps its contents to whatever it feels like whenever it fancies like a rogue waste disposal truck that goes around neighborhoods collecting trash and then just delivering it to other random homes.
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Wth is fpu
Floating Point Unit. The thing that does mathematical operations on floating point numbers. It used come separately from the CPU as an add-on chip, but around the 486 era, manufacturers started integrating it on the same die as the CPU. Of course, as these things go, from the system programmers point of view, there is still no difference between an add-on FPU and an integrated one.
The one pictured here is an add-on FPU for an Intel 80386 CPU.
Thank you. Didn't know that was a thing. I never had to buy an fpu so it was just built with the cpu so I never learned what it was.
What you can by is a ~~FPGU~~ FPGA :)
Basically a lego kit for a CPU you can program for different use cases which dont warrant cpu manufacturing at scale or prototyping
Now I really want a lego kit of a mechanical computer. That would be so cool.
FPGA, but close enough.
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floating point number processing unit
.. checks answer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_unit
Floating Point Unit...
Eh, close enough