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captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 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 · 8 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.
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    Man, I wonder if it’s challenging to source a steady supply of paper for that thing…

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      8 months ago

      And ink?

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        8 months ago

        *ribbons

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      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/

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