Latest toy. This will be it for a while for tech purchases. This isn’t a smart watch; I’m going to use it at the gym. It’s a Casio GD-010-1 GSHOCK. It’s rugged, waterproof to 20 ATM, and has a long lasting battery. It’s a pretty good deal for $135.00. I bought it online at a Canadian store(Ben Moss) so I didn’t need to face the Trumpy bullshit.
So I just spend my whole Sunday afternoon setting up a budget HP laserjet.
Windows 11 can’t find it. There IS NO network adapter on it. HP MFP139w
The HP Smart setup for that specific model (the 1st download option IDs it as the wrong model) claims to connect and asks for the network & password.
It can only do 2.4GHz
Asks you to press COPY button. Has weird symbol instead of COPY on the burron.
Nothing happens.
Look at laptop - there’s the No Connection globe icon. Click and discover a supposed 'temporary HP wirelss port". But you’re dead in your tracks.
Q - why didn’t they just use wifi direct like REAL companies, their claimed ‘connection’ obviously isn’t connected.
Confirm that by looking at the router - no new connection w an IP sddress.
3X restarting process, same results.
So ran home got them a USB cable. Went to ADD PRINTER and it found the right one.
Wouldn’t print after it installed. Look at printer properties, Windows set it up on a MS print to PDF port. Fixwd that, rebooted laptop and printer.
Did print test page, it did work but slow as hell. Guy kept insisting it didb’t work - because the pages came out printed side down!
He kept xaying he was gonna take it back to Staples what other HP to buy.
He’s never gonna move the laptop or printer from the desk (with the wireless router right there beside them) so after telling him repeatedly - to the point I was ready to 2x4 him upside the head - I finally convinced him it bloody worked juswt fine the way it was, he didn’t HAVE TO do anything more to use it.
So get this - he then pulls out a stack of recipes and asks how he makes them ‘go on his computer & printer’…
Of course, the guy is a business owner. He got the HP laptop and printer because people at church told him HP was the best brand. The priest set the laptop up for him. With a MSoft login, Macafee, a VPN, WPS office and every damn thing you avoid at all costs.
Uninstalled all that shit, put in LibreOffice set to load/save as MSoft and had to show him how to start the writer program.
As I was leaving I had to stop him from unplugging all the cables and to just shut the lid and f off.
OMG it’s 2025 and people like that still exist. Can’t, won’t, refuse to learn and don’t understand why they’re just scraping by.
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BTW - that old Macbook:
Installed latest Linux Mint. sudo apt install bcmwl-kernel-source and the wireless went in perfect. It’s an i5 5350 w 8 Gigs and a 256 SSD according to neofetch.
Needs a new keyboard and battery $80 on Amazon, a future project. I have USB keyboards if I want to play with it more.
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