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I bought new inkjets since they cheaper than cartridge's. That's ages ago, I just stopped printing.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I've always used generic replacements without a problem. However, as a personal user, I don't use enough to tell if there's a difference.
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No, whatever is compatible here.
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I buy RechargeX replacement toner. I usually get 3-5 recharges per cartridge before the drums get scratched. Then I buy a manufacturer original replacement. I try to avoid refurbished since they have usually been refilled already.
One trick I recommend: buy one replacement toner load for your exact model. Mark the toner level in the exact refill before you use it. Save the bottle. Next time order the refill for a network printer which has a better price point. Use the original refill bottle and level for subsequent refills.
Choose a printer manufacturer that does not put chips or the like in their toner cartridges!
The only reasons I ditched my original laser was that it had a parallel interface and they stopped providing the driver on newer windows versions.
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So cold. -15/-32 F with wind chill.
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Currently -24F/-31C here in Ottawa (-38F/-39C with wind chill). 🤮
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I can't compete: it's just a bit above freezing here - which is a little unseasonably warm - but the lowest I can remember for here is around -5C during the day.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Can't compete? I'd say that's an outright win compared to what we have.
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Yeah, that is uninhabitable IMHO. I really don't know how you guys do it.
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I've lived here, at various times, for a total of about 22 years, and this winter has probably been the worst. Last winter was mild compared to most others.
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I can relate. Spent a fun filled winter in Fairbanks many years ago. Spent most of the day working outside. Many days the high was in the negative 30's. Couldn't handle that today.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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We have one particular outgoing pipe (the catch) in our house that freezes when it is consistently 10F or less -- over 12 hours or so.
I always wonder how you in those especially frozen climates keep everything thawed?
Are your houses built with more specific insulation around pipes & keeping pipes away from outside walls?
Just curious & good luck with your cold snap.
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There's certainly more insulation, with pipes coming in under the frost line. Never a need to drip faucets here, unlike a few times when I lived in Dallas.
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Isn't that standard everywhere? I never saw an outdoor faucet around here either anti-freeze (when you crank it closed, you drive a long rod to close it at the inside of the wall, where the temperature is presumed to be above freezing - that is the reason for that long pipe in the photos of that link), or you have a second valve in your basement: Before winter, you close the indoor valve and open the outdoor one to allow the water between the two valves to run out. But that is mostly in 50+ year old houses.
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trønderen wrote: Isn't that standard everywhere?
Not sure. I was telling a friend in France and he seemed unaware of this. But then, in most of France winter is just wet and miserable
Mircea
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+67F and sunny here
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Where's that? Miami? Inside your house?
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Outside.
Some distance North of Miami
(God's waiting room).
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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37F here in White Springs, a little ways north of you!
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Is that where they have a Folk Festival Mike ?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yep, the park, where they hold it is about 4 blocks from my house.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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The temperature this morning was a balmy 22 C / 72 F.
Come to sunny Israel!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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My mother went to Israel in the 80's with a few friends. She really enjoyed it. She was trying to learn Hebrew at the time, I think. She had befriended an elderly lady at the time who was an Holocaust survivor, and through there discussions and hanging out, my mother felt compelled to visit Israel.
I actually would like to visit Israel and surrounding countries sometime. Not sure if it will happen anytime soon, but I would like to.
As a side note: My in-laws visited Israel about 10 years ago or so with their church group, and were escorted off a bus at a checkpoint by soldiers with machine guns because it was "not safe" for tourists to be traveling that route at that time. Yikes!!
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We did a similar trip in 2019, but we were allowed into the West Bank (the 'safer' sections). The army only checked us on the way back into Israel proper.
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