Post AWtRJDoamnr41r2GCu by arclight@oldbytes.space
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 (DIR) Post #AWtRJDoamnr41r2GCu by arclight@oldbytes.space
       2023-06-20T19:49:33Z
       
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       Please tell me there is a way to manage a Google Fiber router with an actual adult computer and not some idiotic childproof iOS/Android toy application. Please tell me this is possible even if you know it to be a lie.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWtRJEXG6jaGGNvvpQ by arclight@oldbytes.space
       2023-06-20T19:56:35Z
       
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       I have a Brother laserprinter that I have a love/hate relationship with. When it decides to connect to the network, it prints what I tell it to print without holding my family hostage over ink or toner. The problem is, it is from the era of Brother laserprinters where the UI consists of five LEDs and two buttons, one of which just ruins sheets of paper by printing test info. The remaining UI elements are various forms of power and signal cabling, screws, removable trays and the like. Meaning - nothing that can provide you more than one bit of input or output without a great deal of soldering.The upshot is, this printer falls off the network at the slightest change in wind direction and pretty much the only solution is deleting it and reinstalling it on every device that expects to use it.Because who needs a UI, for anything, ever?
       
 (DIR) Post #AWtRJFEVVwB8QWATEu by arclight@oldbytes.space
       2023-06-20T20:03:28Z
       
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       So I can either waste mounds of toner and paper trying to sort out this printer's IP address in order to - I don't know - try to talk directly to it somehow or otherwise get it to behave like a printer instead the doorstop it continually devolves into. Windows can't find it, Brother's stupid management program can't find it, but I see activity on both ends of a piece of Cat5 cable, so _something_ is happening. Allegedly the router should be able to see it but - surprise - the router is totally inaccessible to me in any useful capacity, trapped behind yet-another-proprietary-unusable-inaccessible-dogshit-mobile-app