aschmelyun

I've had this in my backlog for a while now. If you ever move forward with yours, let me know!

I wasn't born just yet, haha!

Author here, I didn't! I've updated the article to reflect the actual port (and have since learned the difference between the two).

> any published work is likely to be taken and repurposed, for no royalties or credit

I would say that now, more than ever, this means you should be collecting and sharing what you create.

Not on large social media platforms either, on websites that you own and (ideally) host yourself.

Start a blog, host your own instance of Gitea, build a platform for your videos. Spread what you create and activity participate in the community but maintain ownership and an audit trail over what you've created.

People ripping off others works has always been a thing, of course it's much easier and pervasive now. It's still (IMO) beneficial to say "Look! I did this thing first!", with the added benefit of accruing the kind of "social capital" Aaron talked about.

While not an outright solution to the fact that they _are_ expensive, if you don't care about them being second hand or a little older you can score a pretty good deal on sites like eBay.

For instance, TM-T88V printers can do more but cost around 3x as much as the one I got, a TM-T88IV which is the older version. Not perfect, but beats the like $200 price tag brand new.

That’s the one! Got it from a local B+N.

They’re being stored redundantly on a sqlite db. I’ll think about adding some kind of feed to the page if others are interested.

I don’t know, I kind of like having a place for some people to anonymously vent (as more than a few have).

Worse: I worked in grocery stores for years as a cashier lol

I did! I also use gloves when handling a large amount of the receipts.

I worked as a cashier for years in my teens and twenties though, so it’s probably already in my blood.

Hey it’s me, the author! That was intentional as I honestly enjoy the trolling.

There’s a basic rate limiter set up to prevent misuse, and a character limit, but beyond that I just kind of wanted to see what people would send.

It’s been surprisingly chill, and I’ve only had to handle a few nonsensical text dumps or garbage messages.

I have a rotary phone, a voip adapter, and have been writing a local SIP server for another experiment. I am insanely tempted to replicate this.

That is absolutely fantastic. I've always wanted to get my hands on one to mimic a ticker-tape with updating stock/crypto prices. One day!

Also, EeePC is something I haven't heard about in so long. That took me back!

Receipt printers are a blast! I had a project from a couple years ago printing out GitHub tickets using a similar setup to what I have for this dot matrix printer.

I ask myself the same thing every day

It’s physical ink on paper, I feel like as long as you store it in a cool, dry place, you can probably get decades out of it if not more.

I was at a tires place that still uses them as of last month.

It’s pretty expensive though! I got the smallest box I could, 1000 sheets, from Staples for $30.

Yep, parallel! My bad, I’ll have to make some adjustments to the article.

Oooh, awesome! Thanks for the heads up

I’ve been wanting to explore more with this design-wise. There’s literally dozens of pages in the manual regarding font sizing, emphasis, italics, sub and superscripts, etc.

Maybe for version 2.0!

You both are 100% correct! Originally I was going to have a wait (say, no new digits after 3 seconds, mark the ascii character), but I figured just scrapping everything after 20 as an immediate character and anything under as a 3 digit one, it made typing a lot faster.

I was directly inspired by that video, haha

I still miss it to this day, for basic texting it was the superior system.

You're correct with ASCII! My original idea was to use T9, but my ultimate goal is to use this as a way of writing code.

Currently waiting on a small oled screen to print out the # inputs and corresponding last-typed character.

Ooh, that's good to know. I'll keep that in mind for Version 2!

I've already been looking at kitchen rails to hang above my desk lol

https://www.amazon.com/Winco-Order-Rack-Aluminium-24/dp/B01E...

Forgot to mention that in the article, but I tried that as well. Added `lp` group to both the pi and root users, to no avail.

Literally why I built this in the first place. Work is one thing, but my side project issue notifications kind of just got lost in the mix of noise coming through my email, and I'd forget to check them out.

Thanks for letting me know, a fix for that is going out now!

I'll make some edits to the article today to include those!