• fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 hours ago

    It is a gift! I have the same gift for printers. I enter a room with a printer and the printer decides to spontaneously combust (or at least the software equivalent of this). Weird aura? Maybe they feel my hate…

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      3 hours ago

      That reminds me of a job I had many years ago, where this big printer kept jamming and stopping. Whenever the inhouse support tech showed up it would start working. One time it unjammed and resumed printing when he walked into the computer room. Another time he was out front talking to the manager right after getting there, and we heard it start up. He could never get there when it wasn’t working, to diagnose the problem. So finally he brought in a wallet size high-school photo of himself and taped it to the inside of the printer cover, so his face was looking at the print head. I swear on everything holy, that machine never glitched out again!