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Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2024
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Because it is fun to him?
Maybe? But in the article he was talking about his priority being that he wanted to disconnect from his phone but still wanted news. Just seems there’s been a solution for that for a few centuries now. His solution seemed to me at least to be a lemon that wasn’t worth the squeeze as it were.
So there was two solutions for them:
I choose 2.
I'd actually be interested to see a cost breakdown between this and just buying a newspaper subscription; it looks like he spent about $100 on materials, plus then there's the ongoing costs of electricity (negligible), printer ribbons, and paper. Ribbons appear to be about $1 / ea if you buy in bulk, and I don't recall how much printing you get out of a single ribbon, but let's assume a 24 pack is enough to last you a year. Paper seems to be about $30 / 1000 sheets, so assuming he sticks to the single-page-per-day format, that'll last almost 3 years.
So up front costs, $100 Ongoing costs, $35 / year, roughly.
Newspaper subscription is about $150 / year, so this'll actually be cost effective if he keeps it up. Of course, you're getting a lot less news than you would from a newspaper subscription, so the relative value is questionable there.
I mean clearly this is more of a fun little project than not. What I wanted to say is that it's a bit missing the point if all we talk about is money.
I’m assuming they still print newspapers, but I can’t remember when I last saw our local paper for sale at a store. The vending machines are long gone.