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I'll start: printers.

I bought an HP in March 2020 when my job went remote and HP bricked it remotely after only 100 pages because I wouldn't sign up for their subscription program. Ended up trashing a perfectly good printer.

Luckily my library's close by and I can print there remotely.

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[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Certainly is: there was a group of people doing just that at the University of Calgary(?), but it was years ago and they have almost certainly graduated by now. If others are still doing so, I am not certain.

afaicr the most difficult part was the infotainment system. Installing the motors and stuff was easy, to engineering students at least haha.

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I kind of hate infotainment systems anyway. I just want a mounted screen to cast Apple Drive Mode or whatever it's called. The default GUI they put there is fucking awful. I tried to use the inbuilt GPS once and actually gave up and just went on a spiritual journey instead. Surely it can't be that complicated just to have essentially a mounted iPad?

Great to hear that cars can be saved though. I was worried I'd have to sell my perfectly good car because I want an electric motor… I was thinking like, the rest of the car is fine it doesn't need to be trashed at all

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Same, they are always useless to me because I just use my phone anyway. All I would need is an audio jack and a usb port for charging. I imagine a simple sort of shelf with a 'seat belt' where the screen would be.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

ijmuawn

I just make up acronyms, why not?

Iirc is a thing, why not use that instead of making people spend time figuring out what afaicr means? I assume I figured it out, yes, but I've never seen that before.

[–] emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's been in fairly wide usage for a long time, and it's literally only two characters off from an extremely well known acronym that has also basically been around as long as the internet (afaik). IIRC was also just made up by somebody too, not that that's even what OP was doing.

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago

Don't worry, I understood what you meant :)

Wait a minute… you're not OC! (Original Commenter)

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

I have seen iirc thousands of times, don't recall ever seeing this one before. Yeah they get made up, yet it's silly to make a new one up that means almost the exact same thing as an established one.