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Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer

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Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

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Instead of doom-scrolling through my phone in the morning, I built an alternative with a Raspberry Pi, a dot matrix printer, and some PHP.

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I can’t stand the screeching of a dot matrix printer. The correct way to print the news is with a teletype.
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  Perhaps a daisy wheel printer is an acceptable middle ground
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    What about the Selectric Typing-ball?
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  https://youtu.be/sSiVYgot9SI
  
  Not even two weeks ago.

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