Thanks for the surreal content.

Fair, and I was considering that. This could be reviewed with heuristics and instead of instant bans, apply a review. If the admins don’t respond, then it’s not addressed.

What about putting a delay on the beginning activity of an account? Maybe a 2-4 hour timer on new accounts where their new posts are only available to certain users. Once the account has matured, the restrictions can be lifted.

Maybe getting in front of it and offering to direct it somehow? It’s still a business, and while growth isn’t the goal, it may help secure funding.

Not that I know, I really am just guessing.

Magic notebook.

Everything I write in it becomes true.

Do you think those details matter?

Because it’s is in Palm Beach county, which seems friendly.

Also, it involves Bill Gates, who has had some whoppers of conspiracy theories told about him.

And yes, it feels rushed to try avoiding double jeopardy.

Thanks. Fixed

More like I don’t want to complete task a that I had to abandon due to needs of business and probably only has 15 minutes of work, so I’ll push these other tasks around for the next 2 hours.

Just go.

Get it done faster.

No time to stop.

This task is my master.

4-packs of 2-TB NVME for $50 on eBay.

Actually, you could totally have demand for that font set.

I was considering how copyrighted material can still be generated after writing that, so fair. If you fed in work a and made the same modification to each piece then it would just be a modified work a and not actually new work b.

I hear you, and that was my first thought reading through the article.

According to TFA:

While games using English can rely on system UI fonts, cheap commercial fonts or open-source options, the sheer number of characters used in Japanese means high-quality fonts are extremely difficult and expensive to make, so few affordable alternatives are available. This is what made LETS an important service, but its revamped pricing and limitations have now put it beyond the reach of a good chunk of developers.

Maybe there are alternatives out there, and I think a crowd sourced open font would be a great idea. I personally have no idea how to go about organizing a project of that scope.

Also, tbf, my answer was more emotional bitching than a serious take.

I will gladly replace dishwashers with dishwashing machines if they are energy, water, and cost-efficient, but I don’t believe we are discussing artisan dishwashing. This borderline association approaches sophistry, so I think it is much better to discuss the use of art and the corporate hoarding of artwork.

Monotype does seem to pay font creators well for royalties.. My frustration is the aggressive pricing models, the growth of monotype to where they own the whole market (per tfa), and the way they are demanding payment for fonts without checking to see if there is an existing license..

Basically, I will encourage and pay for fair business practices. Squeezing people for cash pisses me off. I’m not knowledgeable enough to pretend to create a free font set in this manner, but I would advocate creating tools that would fuck up the market. Open fonts would be great, but again tfa says that it’s too complicated of a data set for that, and the market is too small for independent artists.

Lastly, my answer wasn’t a valid solution. There are plenty of legal and social hurdles to it.

Not a fan of generative works, but this seems like a clear place to use it to fuck shit up.

Nih.hira.term.aigen.ttf Nih.katak.term.aigen.ttf Nih.kanji1.term.aigen.ttf Nih.kanji2.term.aigen.ttf Etc

Not the fault of the prompter if the resulting fonts appear to resemble licensed fonts, which are often slightly different copies of each other anyway.

Generative works cannot be copyrighted, so it would forever be in the public domain.

The only drawback would be that you would have to announce that you used slop in your game.

I could see this working, but it’s a ton of effort to maintain. If you have the right mindset, after organized enough, and have the space, I guess it will work.

My other beef is just cost in general. At 500 pages for CMYK each, and $20 a cartridge, that’s $80 for 500 pages. You get about 10x the yield for the same cost with third party toner. Even if you were buying OEM toner at 4x the price, you are still getting 2.5x the yield for the same cost.

Funny enough, that was the last model I had to do that to, a 9000 series. We had several, but they are dying off steadily to print head failure errors. Reminds me of the Whack-a-Mole scandal.

I would 100% buy a used enterprise printer if I could get a proper deal on it, but that is because I have been a certified HP printer tech and have fixed hundreds of printers. If you count receipt printers and other brands of office printer, I have probably touched over a thousand for anything from rebuilds to jams. There was a year when I rebuilt 10-20 printers a week as part of a schedule.

Anyhow, what I’m getting at isn’t that they are better built or anything like that. There just happens to be enough third party vendors that you never have to pay them a cent to keep a printer running. Someone else already paid them the 2-6k for the printer, and it’s e-waste if it goes into the dump. I can ship of Thesius it indefinitely, even if I have to buy parts from God knows where.

The M477fdw is pretty solid. You can find parts and manuals aplenty for that.

Definitely check before you buy a used HP to see if there is a firmware lockout for toner. I have seen other newer models complain about counterfeit toner and still print.

That being said, I don’t endorse HP printers. They are anti-competitive and have terrible software.

No problems with their enterprise desktops, but again, buy used!

My routine for unclogging a printhead is to get 99% IPA, blot the head on a paper towel and then drag the head down a sheet of paper until it is leaking ink. As an IT guy, I have recovered several ink cartridges this way.

After you have done this, do several prints until the ink flows properly.

If you have the ability to do so, you should look into buying a used laser printer. The toner is more expensive upfront, but you don’t have these issues and total cost of ownership is significantly cheaper.

Word of warning, do not buy consumer HP printers. These only exist to make you purchase HP toner.