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[–] pastanomaly@waveform.social 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This joke only works if you’ve never understood a single lyric of their songs.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

"I liked RATM when they weren't so political."

[–] Spazsquatch@lemmy.studio 5 points 1 year ago

Given they are accused of getting into politics and should stick to music by “fans”, the joke has legs.

[–] SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Its also funny if you hate printers. We always keep the main printer(s) under a maintenance contract.

[–] sycamore@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

They explained in great detail the nature of the machine, how it works, who created it, and who profited from it, in multiple hit songs they produced..

[–] urda@lebowski.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

P.C. load letter? What the fuck does that mean?

[–] ndguardian@lemmy.studio 2 points 1 year ago

It’s the thing that lets the PC load. Obviously.

[–] mycatiskai@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

I think it was probably the machine that crushes us all, the bureaucratic, capitalist nightmare of uncaring government coupled with the military industrial complex.

[–] lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

B&W printing unavailable, please refill Cyan.

[–] Technological_Burger@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Scanning Unavailable, please refill ink.

[–] lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Lol even better

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a reason for that. It's so your printer can still print the secret tracking dots on every printout.

[–] lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

Edit: don't use a common ordinary printer when doing naughty things.

Uhh does USPS have a unsend option?

[–] lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fascinating. It's only for laser printers, but the real interesting bit is that they did it for 20 years before it was public knowledge.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Makes you wonder what other stuff they have hidden in devices we use every single day. Unless people start de-lidding the chips in their stuff and analyzing the circuits and dumping and analyzing firmwares, we are in the dark about the vast majority of our stuff that uses proprietary designs. One more reason to use open source hardware and software.

[–] asphaltkooky@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

HP ya sack of shit!

"Fuck you I won't do what you tell me" was just a quote from the printer

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