I can’t stand the screeching of a dot matrix printer. The correct way to print the news is with a teletype.
Perhaps a daisy wheel printer is an acceptable middle ground
What about the Selectric Typing-ball?
Not even two weeks ago.
Man, I wonder if it’s challenging to source a steady supply of paper for that thing…
And ink?
*ribbons
I was interested until I hit this sentence:
I use PHP as my language of choice in a day-to-day basis, and this is no exception.
Why?
So, a newspaper with a lot of extra steps? I understand the gee whizness of getting this all to work but not really sure there’s a solid “why” to this.
Because it is fun to him?
Maybe? But in the article he was talking about his priority being that he wanted to disconnect from his phone but still wanted news. Just seems there’s been a solution for that for a few centuries now. His solution seemed to me at least to be a lemon that wasn’t worth the squeeze as it were.
So there was two solutions for them:
- No-code, paid and pre-made
- DIY script writing, free(except materials) and custom built to suit personal needs. Fun to build(obviously).
I choose 2.
I’m assuming they still print newspapers, but I can’t remember when I last saw our local paper for sale at a store. The vending machines are long gone.
Yeah, but I don’t know whether you’ve recently taken a look in one of the local newspapers— being able to select topics you want to read about may very well be worth the extra effort (also, fun of course)
You aren’t actually forced to read every article in a newspaper. Though you will have to scan over the headlines, so you will have a small awareness of things happening in the world. But is that a bad thing?
