benoliver999

Joined 12 years ago

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Comment · 2 days ago
The B&W we had afterwards has run for about 10 years without any hitches or even basic maintenance.
Comment · 4 days ago
I used to have to manage color laser at work. Really expensive to run, powder fucking everywhere, and yes usually broken after a year.

After 3 printers it was not hard to persuade them to go B&W

Comment · 14 days ago
I had a cheap one and it was bang bang controlled which sucked
Comment · 24 days ago
Surely the UK can also pull this off given how quick faster payments is. I'm always surprised at how we just stuck with Visa
Comment · 25 days ago
It's good practice I think for avoiding duplicates.
Comment · 25 days ago
Does that then mean the switches can't be used?
Comment · 1 month ago
I wore a suit for years at work. I liked it! Even a with scratch built tailored suit, the trousers would wear through though.

Eventually, can't remember why, I stopped

Comment · 2 months ago
Surely the smart money is to go to Spain
Comment · 3 months ago
FT is great. The Week I just cannot get on with the style of writing.
Comment · 3 months ago
My RSS reader accepts email newsletters so I subscribe using that and funnel them all into feedbin
Comment · 3 months ago
Ditto here. I was an early customer and it's just flawless. It powers right off my piano USB so it's basically silent.

If I ever get good at piano it'll be handy

Comment · 3 months ago
I have had a few failures and I can only assume it's the second one? I have one on a thinkpad that only works if you hold it in the right position
Comment · 3 months ago
I get trouble with the female ports too

I have had a failed port on my laptop - fortunately the laptop can charge on two of its ports but it sucks to have lost one.

I have had a failed port on an iPad, and on my phone. Again I was fortunate to have a fairphone, so I just replaced the port.

Comment · 5 months ago
I've been reasonably happy with it since 2013 now.

This last year however, I've started to hear complaints from staff of annoying popups about AI stuff people don't want to use

Comment · 5 months ago
I remember in the early days you could watch your storage quota go up in real time.

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