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After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.

The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google.

I love a good, informative troll.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
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    8 months ago

    One of my housemates has a brother printer and I was testing some stuff out on LMDE and noticed it was available to print to. No searching for it or driver to be installed or anything. I don’t actually need to print but that’s pretty cool.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      One of my housemates has a brother printer and I was testing some stuff out on LMDE and noticed it was available to print to. No searching for it or driver to be installed or anything. I don’t actually need to print but that’s pretty cool.

      People keep missing that I’m talking about a all-in-one, and not just a simple printer-only.

      I never had a problem with the printing part of the all-in-one printer, but the scanning and faxing stuff required the Brother driver support, and that wad not natively supported, or were supposed to be supported but it didn’t work well, or at all. There were issues with 32-bit versus 62-bit libraries, etc.

      Took years to get to a point where the brother drivers would just install and everything would work right. And not everything ever worked right from native Linux.

      Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
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        8 months ago

        The comment I replied to didn’t mention you had any issues. I just wanted to mention something I had noticed that I thought was cool. Not trying to get into a debate about it.