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Remember when the FAA grounded him till he got this fix and then Musk told the FAA head to retire or be fired?

I think it’s wild that “better times” is now when corruption wasn’t so naked.

This one is a difficult 3rd party toner isn’t all formulated the same. The main carrier, the thing that picks up the charge and moves the toner onto the paper is usually a blend of polyester and/or polypropylene. Various mixtures have different properties in the presence of a static electric charge.

The charge on the drum and exposure time to the laser are all parameters that are tuned in the firmware and it’s likely Brother would tune those parameters to toner they’ve formulated. So getting sub performance from 3rd party toner can be a hit or miss, because some will have a batch of toner that hits the mark and then the exact same group could have a batch that pulls poorly on the toner. A lot of 3rd party toner is seat of your pants kind of operations with minimum QA process. But most people using 3rd party toner is fine with “good enough” quality.

So even using the same maker of toner isn’t some golden seal of accuracy that you’ll get the same formulation every time. Now bricking functions is concerning and that’s something to keep an eye out for. I’ve got three different printers in the office, all Brother, all using 3rd party, none having bricking issues. But that’s completely anecdotal. Likewise, I’ve only ever heard maybe one or two claims online by folks of bricking Brother printers.

Now don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy Louis Rossman’s videos. But that he’s going off completely wiki data is suspect. Now as for 20Factorial, yes, that is Brother’s standard line for bad color registration to ask for you to swap over to OEM toner. So for those not in the know print registration … well it helps to understand in a color laser printer, you usually have four toner tanks (Yellow, Cyan, Magenta, and Black). Now all those tanks are located in physically different places inside the printer and so there needs to be a way for the printer to understand those physical differences and ensure that the colors overlap each other perfectly to get the correct mix of colors to print what’s being asked. That’s what print registration is, sometimes that’s called color print alignment.

Brother’s MFC-3750 has an “automatic” process by which this is done where a chip passes along information to the printer on the properties of the mixture of toner within the tank. This is where you can run into an issue because the automatic information might be just a copy the 3rd party picked off a used tank and the data passed to the printer matches nothing in terms of the formulation the 3rd party put inside the tank. And a newer firmware might see that copied info as out of spec formulation. Who knows? That’s the gamble with 3rd party you take.

Brother and any other printer maker gets complaints whenever their machines don’t print correctly and sometimes that can be the formulation of the toner. Sometimes it’s a firmware update that tightens the requirements for reported formulations. Sometimes that can be malicious and sometimes that’s just a side effect of tweaking how the firmware processes different formulas. It’s a lot of variables.

So that part about 20Factorial’s printer is something that “sucks when it happens” but not all toner is the same thing. Brother can only assure proper assistance with mixtures they’ve had in their labs. BUT, and a big but here, while not all toner is the same, there’s tolerance here and usually 90% of all toner on this planet falls within that tolerance. But you can never tell with 3rd party toner, it could be a one off batch, or yeah it could have been a firmware update that lost it’s damn mind when it got presented with the chip information from the 3rd party toner.

The whole point is, this is really hard to nail down.

Now what isn’t is when shit starts bricking. That’s 99% of the time the OEM doing that shit to you. Now that could be on purpose or sometimes it’s bad error checking for 3rd party stuff, but it’s absolutely the code from the OEM doing it to you. I will say automatic color registration is a tricky bitch to get right, even when using OEM toner.

I’m not going to defend Brother here if they’re doing shady stuff. But all the claims except fncamo, have that feel of losing the gamble with 3rd party toner, 99% of the time you win, but there’s always that 1% that gets you.

fncamo’s claim of bricking is odd, but at the same time, they may have power cycled while in a critical point of the inline firmware programming and bricked their printer themselves. But maybe not, it absolutely is the only one out of all of this that got my attention. I wish there was more to their comment.

But 3rd party toner SHOULD work, but only OEM toner WILL work. Like I said, 99% of the time the toner is chemically fine. There could be something else to what happened for the others.

I think what’s wild is that Canada only makes 1% of Jack Daniel’s sales while Mexico makes up 7% of their sales.

If Mexico pulls Jack off their shelves, it’ll hit harder.

Does a single district court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars? The answer to that question should be an emphatic ‘No,’ but a majority of this court apparently thinks otherwise

— Justice Alito’s dissent

The answer is “FUCKING YES”. The Court is a co-equal branch to the President and Congress. The Courts have just as much right indicating that the President must uphold contractual obligations as Congress has the power to pass a budget and the President to distribute that funding to the States.

Yes, yes, FUCKING YES, the Courts have this power. The “CHECK” if there is to be one is for Congress to rescind the funding by law. THAT’S FUCKING CHECK DIPSHIT!!! It’s not unchecked, if Congress passes a law indicating that the contracts are pulled, then ta-da, what the Judge said is moot. That’s the FUCKING CHECK!!

Goddamn it, I hate it when these Justices say stupid shit because of their fucking bias and love of Trump’s cock. Just what a fucking moronic statement by Alito. If the Government wants to cancel contracts, Congress has to grant that power. That’s the check on the President. If the President fucking cancels contracts without that power, the Courts can mandate that the contracts be paid, that’s the check on the President. If the President doesn’t like what the Courts say, then they can go to Congress for the authority, and that’s the check on the Courts.

It’s all fucking balanced. What an absolute pile of shit Alito has offered up in this dissent. And what’s worse is that he’d be totally complicit to remand to the lower courts had it been Biden pulling this shit. Suddenly the whole “impoundment” issue would manifest for the Courts.

What an absolute fucking naked ass corrupt pile of horse shit that dissent is. Goddamn, there is zero legitimacy left in that sack of shit that calls itself Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. “UNCHECKED POWER” my fucking ass. What complete horse shit. This fucking country is a goddamn failure.

But they brought some ping pong paddles to show how brave they are!

Should have called him a couch so he can go fuck himself.

I’m curious, how repairable? Like comfortable with a solder iron or slots and what not like a PC?

Repairable phones would be great but the demand for them hasn’t undone the cost of design for them. There’s a lot of tech in an incredibly small package, so repairable phone would still require people to have specialty equipment to repair.

Like very few people own an oven for working with BGA chips. And if we go with socket based chips, the thickness of the phone has to increase or the battery has to decrease.

Don’t get me wrong, I think an open and repairable phone would be great. But having one is an engineering challenge that most phone makers have opted to just skip putting dollars into because the demand for one doesn’t justify the cost. Your average buyer is just chasing shiny and doesn’t see repairing their dinosaur as valuable.

But yeah, I’m sure there’s plenty here that would love such a device. Sadly we are not the majority.

This doesn’t release any copyright work in the game. So you will need to go through and remove any sprites, images, audio, etc that is copyright.

Additionally, it indicates that you must include in any derivative that the source of your code is from the EA drop here.

Outside of that, it is GPLv3. Of course it has hard dependency on DirectX 5.0. So a fully free version will need to redo those parts. Also the code is very MS VC++ heavy. Don’t expect gcc to build you a binary.

Something happens and MAGA gets upset. Liberals just like, really? Did y’all really think he was going to catch your back?

I mean FFS, Trump let thousands of his own supporters die from a once in a lifetime (knock on wood) pandemic. Did you seriously think Horse Paste McGee was looking out for your best interest?

We could solve the housing shortage and homelessness if we zoned the space between that man’s ears.

You did amazing. Keep up the good work!

LOL. Workers then convince AI to give them massive raises. Musk instantly stops using AI and hires a bunch of high school edge lords to read the emails.

They may have forgotten their talking points.

The thing is that it’s difficult to even get a complete picture because they release so little data.

One screenshot I saw had the PIID in the shot so I looked it up. Doofus indicated he saved $8.2M but that was the total amount for the outlay.

The contract began in 2022 and had already paid out 80% the total $8.2M, meaning only $1.64M was actually “saved”.

So I know for a fact that the values they’re reporting aren’t correct because they’re looking at these contracts and having no clue on how to actually read them.

As for the SSN thing where we’re paying 150 year old social security. There’s likely another table with “in question” that has to be joined to get an actual number.

When I worked for my state this is how we had some data. A master table that you then had to join like five or six exception tables to remove the “questionable” entries from the master.

And on systems like AS400, EXCEPTION JOIN is a thing for a reason because the OS SQL engine has special ways to optimize these kinds of joins. So it’s likely this is the case here.

Man, I never knew that the price to make Trump your bitch was so low.

Like the public could just GoFundMe $400M and have him as a public servant once again.

trump is choosing fast and cheap

Don’t give me hope.

I saw him claim a $8.2M contract savings. Looked it up, was only a $1.6M. They are routinely inflating numbers because they have no idea how to read the data that’s in front of them.

Contract was 12FPC222F0160. They just took the full awarded amount and ran with that, not seeing or not caring that it was opened in 2022 and had paid out 80% it’s outlay already.

These people have no idea what they’re doing and they routinely display that lack of knowledge. There is no value of what Musk is posting that can possibly be treated as credible. This is likely why they keep not posting the full contract listing they cancel everyday. They have no idea how to read these things. They’re just picking the largest number on the screen.

Just remember the people who left open their DOGE database so that anyone can edit it are going to access seven years of your returns with zero oversight.

Any drug that might be used for abortions, a broad class of vaccinations……

I mean this is how it starts. This is how eventually they tell you what you can and can’t do with your own body.

Before you know it they’ll come after SSRIs, vaccines that have “lead”, any vaccine that might cause injury, elective surgeries that deal with reproduction, and so on.

Because when they know they can get away with this, it makes them bolder in their schemes.

I find it unsurprising but fascinating that the group routinely known for yelling slippery slope is nowhere to be found. It’s like they didn’t give an actual shit to begin with.

Fucking CyberTruck like fucking pile of shit website. What kills me the most is that the fucking things they’re screenshoting, those pages have literal “export to XML” buttons that they could fucking export, save the XML to some shared drive that gets swept, and the put it in some actually secure database.

This whole fucking thing reeks of some fucking weeb ass Roblox hackers whose last project consisted of Lua Script emulating some fucking redstone calculator they wrote in Minecraft. And the export fuction on the thing? It’s just one dimension SUM function CSV exports. Literally no other dimenstions of values to add, shit I would be fucking surprised if a single one of the people writing the goddamn have ever heard of OLAP.

And to top it off, we already have a fucking website that does what this fucking place does, but 846 decillion times better. And it doesn’t have a fucking Instagram esque reel of Tweets of people taking fucking screenshots of an open database.

I can’t wait till the next dumbass gets into the White House and turns this pile of grabage off. Paying these idiots millions to power and run the hardware this pitiful excuse of a website runs on. And all we got for that money is some shit that is about on par as the shit you get from some O’Reilly book called “Building a Government Website Crash Course” with a Bald Eagle dying of bird flu on the cover.

This fucking idiot maybe wants to fucking learn what the hell SQL is.