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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year 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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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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.

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I was interested until I hit this sentence:

I use PHP as my language of choice in a day-to-day basis, and this is no exception.
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  Why?
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    Likely because it’s $current_year and there are better choices available.

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