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Comment Buy simple, single function devices (Score 1) 287

Your basic B+W laser is basically a toaster. Whatever cheap HP or Brother you can get on sale will probably give you 10 years of printing with minimal trouble. Color lasers are a lot more complex (probably 8x the moving parts of a B+W) but are still decent. You really want to use OEM toner. The other gotcha is paper quality - lasers really like a high speed copy paper, preferably not recycled (recycled has too much paper dust). Stay way from "multipurpose" papers for your laser, use a pure laser/copy paper only. Consumer inkjets are unmitigated garbage.

Comment Grocery Store Employees (Score 4, Insightful) 85

The employees at my local grocery store are mostly incapable not damaging packaged goods, and do not appear to possess sufficient brainpower or attention to detail to not stick a gallon of milk on top of a bunch of bananas. The chance of them successfully operating a vertical farm is somewhere between epsilon and zero.

Comment E-mail is essentially a legacy system... (Score 1) 72

And for most people, it means either GMail or Exchange. They both have their trade-offs, but they both get the job done. Open source e-mail software still has a place on the back-end, but it's incapable of providing the sort of collaboration platform people expect (for good reasons) in 2017.

Comment Re:Really, Microsoft? (Score 1) 327

Switch to what?
Mac is a mess with non-expandable hardware and an OS that has gotten nothing but half-assed "borrowed from the iPad" updates over the last few years.
Linux does not usefully run productivity hardware such as high speed scanners (yes, I've tried it, and no, the inability to do things like automatic page sizing means it is not usable). It also doesn't play well with gaming (even light gaming) quality GPUs without an awful lot of hassle.
I've used damn near everything on the desktop (Windows, Mac, Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, Irix, etc). Right now it pains me to say that Windows 10, especially with WSL, is the least awful option. At least you can get Thinkpad keyboards with it...

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