> We had a cheap LaserJet 1000 printer at my first job back in the day.
Those were good. I also liked the 1100, in spite of it being an early software driven laserjet.
I had a particular soft spot for the little 1010/1012 lasers. They were persnickety because they require a software defined USB port and Windows 7 was the last OS supported. With a little kludging they work on Win 10. I'll find out soon if they do Win 11.
But like every good HP experience, it's in the past.
At 18 hours of work a day, your money need are relatively low! Pair that with just sleeping at the office toilet and eating used coffee grounds and everything should be good!
I tried to update some files using Claude. I tried to use a combination of positive and negative reinforcement, telling that I was going to earn a coin for each file converted and I was going to use that money to adopt a stray kitten, but for every unsuccessful file, a poor kitten was going to suffer a lot.
I had the impression that it got a little better. After every file converted, it said something along the lines of “Great! We saved another kitten!" It was hilarious.
After more 20 years I still remember a guy that told me "hey! something is wrong! instead of my password I just see asterisks!" when I was training users.
Trainings are a wholy different cup of tea. I do highly technical trainings, that people pay a lot [1] to attend, and sometimes I really can't help some participants. No, you can't run docker containers on your phone. Laptop is required, it was on the website and stated in the email you received two weeks ago. Or: No you see "file not found" means you need to run this command from another directory. Yes, you type "cd" to go there. No, the script won't work without Python installed, we covered this on a slide two hours ago. Wait how did you solve the last four exercises which used Python too? Oh, this is a work computer and you don't have admin rights to install anything? Right, your admin is sleeping now because of timezone differences. Uhh let's try to find a portable installer.
Meanwhile, the second half of the room finished everything, and that one guy way ahead works though an exercise I didn't even cover so far. But I just smile and try to help, because I'm a professional.
