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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 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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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months 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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15•6 months ago
I can’t stand the screeching of a dot matrix printer. The correct way to print the news is with a teletype.
- @SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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  5•6 months ago
  Perhaps a daisy wheel printer is an acceptable middle ground
  - @T156@lemmy.world
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    4•6 months ago
    What about the Selectric Typing-ball?
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  1•6 months ago
  https://youtu.be/sSiVYgot9SI
  
  Not even two weeks ago.

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