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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 04:24:30 JST Adrianna Tan

   I am ‘how did I ever live without a laser printer??’ years old

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 04:30:39 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Patrick Lam :tinoflag:

     @va2lam I’m sure laser pointers are also indispensable to some!

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     Patrick Lam :tinoflag: (va2lam@mastodon.nz)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 04:30:40 JST Patrick Lam :tinoflag:

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     @skinnylatte I read "pointer" and was like "huh?" I do very much appreciate having a printer around.

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     Allan Chow (grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 04:33:35 JST Allan Chow

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     @skinnylatte wait when was the last time you regularly used a printer that wasn't laser jet

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 04:33:35 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Allan Chow

     @grumpasaurus I mostly only printed photos, which were still inkjet (very high end ones)

     Documents were largely through laser printers I didn’t own (library, etc)

     SF has free printing of up to 10 or 20 pages a day so I always felt I didn’t need it

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     RealGene ☣️ (realgene@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 07:44:50 JST RealGene ☣️

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     @skinnylatte
     I bought my first laser printer at an office equipment surplus sale in the early '90s for $80. It was a Xerox behemoth that weighed close to 100 pounds, and you poured toner into it from a bottle.

     It emulated a Xerox Diablo daisywheel printer, so had the equivalent of four fonts, I think.

     It drew over a kilowatt when printing, and made all the lights flicker in my apartment at the time.
     I abandoned it to a recycler when I moved out.

     At the moment I have a monochrome Brother MFC, and a Xerox color laser.