Wikipedia

3901 readers

280 users here now

A place to share interesting articles from Wikipedia.

Rules:

Only links to Wikipedia permitted
Please stick to the format "Article Title (other descriptive text/editorialization)"
Tick the NSFW box for submissions with inappropriate thumbnails
On Casual Tuesdays, we allow submissions from wikis other than Wikipedia.

Recommended:

If possible, when submitting please delete the "m." from "en.m.wikipedia.org". This will ensure people clicking from desktop will get the full Wikipedia website.
Use the search box to see if someone has previously submitted an article. Some apps will also notify you if you are resubmitting an article previously shared on Lemmy.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

122

Printer tracking dots (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

16 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have another question as to why we don't have an open source paper printer.

[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No market for it. Printers have already become so fucking cheap to make that the manufacturers can't survive unless they overprice their ink.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I'm tempted to see if I can't get some old daisywheel printer running on a modern Linux machine.