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After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.

The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google.

I love a good, informative troll.

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    193·
    9 months ago

    From the article…

    Don’t feel compelled to do it; my only ask is that you make this article go viral by sharing it in faux-outrage that the EIC of The Verge has published an article partially generated by AI, because after the buttons I am going to include a bunch of AI-generated copy from Google’s Gemini in order to pad this thing out.

    I have to admit, it was an interesting read, not quite like anything I’ve ever read before, for a review.

    I honestly can’t tell if this is just some genius way of sliding in some AI generated content into a review and getting it to pass our review, or just an editor-in-chief really frustrated with Google’s search algorithm paying attention to manipulation by others, so trying to really get their stuff out there for us to see.

    Either way, it’s definitely worth the read.

    As far as Brother printers go, I own an all-in-one laser that’s over a decade old, and it’s still going strong. And it actually works with Linux to boot. I do hate though that they do some squirrely stuff to try to get you to buy a new toner cartridge early, but if you mask sensors and such, then an existing toner will work forever.

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    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      There are very few printers that don’t work with Linux. Linux has drivers to interface with most of them through whatever means you like, right in the kernel.

      That’s one of the reasons my android phone (Linux kernel, remember) is better at finding and queuing up prints on a network printer than any windows machine I’ve ever used.

      I just hit share on a document, choose print… And then it just works.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        9 months ago

        There are very few printers that don’t work with Linux.

        I was speaking with the all-in-one types, that includes scanners and fax machines.

        Most printer companies don’t make their drivers work well with Linux (or at the very least used to not), and even Brother was in that same boat early on.

        But as of late they’re much better, so when you run a Brother installer for the drivers it just installs and works now, where in the past you had to worry about 32 bit versus 64 bit libraries in the OS and how they interact with the brother drivers, etc., etc.

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        • NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          31·
          9 months ago

          He’s the one that would be doing the review. It isn’t about trying to “sneak in” AI content

          • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            It isn’t about trying to “sneak in” AI content

            But he says right in the article that he’s including AI content at the bottom of the article, to pad it out.

            an article partially generated by AI, because after the buttons I am going to include a bunch of AI-generated copy from Google’s Gemini in order to pad this thing out.

            My point is if he’s being honest and that’s the true reason, or just being sneaky and trying to slip in AI content into a human written article.

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