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Printers.
I think there is an open source printer being created. Potentially has the chance at being the only printer that isn't a pile of shit.
I'm sceptical any open source printer wouldn't run into trouble regarding patents.
Are patents region specific? Could they just ignore the US market for example.
I've seen that project. Complete radio silence since the announcement and zero path to releasing anything.
It really sucks.
Ahh that is a shame
I really liked my old brother laser printer.
Keyword in that is 'old' - new printers are shit, and Brother printers have been pretty bad in my experience as well. Most any new printers I've touched is just terrible.
But then again, I stan my old HP color LJ that I got for free from the early 2010s that I got when my employer went to a printer contract service and just dumped all the printers they currently had. That fucker runs like a champ and has let me put in after market toner carts without much complaint and 0 printing issues. Modern HP printers only belong on fire.
Fair.
I have a black and white laser printer
a Brother, FWIW
that works great. It sits there and when I print the occasional document, flips on and quietly and quickly does its thing. I remember printers in past decades. Paper jams. Continuous-tractor feed paper having the tractor feeds rip free in the printer. Slow printing. Loud printing. Prints that smeared. Clogging ink nozzles on inkjets.
It replaced a previous Apple black-and-white laser printer from...probably the early 1990s that I initially got used which also worked fine and worked until the day I threw it out
I just wanted more resolution, which current laser printers could do.
The only thing that I can really beat the Brother up for is maybe that, like many laser printers, to cut costs on the power supply, it has a huge power spike in what it consumes when it initially comes on; I'd rather just pay for a better power supply. But it's not enough for me to care that much about it, and if I really want to, I can plug it into power regulation hardware.
Nah.
The printer / multifunction I have right now is pretty magical. It just works. It's a solved problem.
I think the problem is that the cheaper ones are hostile.
Too true :(