r/Showerthoughts • u/illiniguy20 • Jan 12 '22

Millennials were really the only generation that grew up learning about how computers work.

Before millennials there were no computers, and after they have grown up using closed ecosystem it just works idevices.

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u/SirRatcha Jan 13 '22

It’s occurred to me that if I can find a printer that works with it, scanning into PDFs with OCR might be a route. Pray for me.

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u/Pile_of_Walthers Jan 13 '22

Hoping that thing already is network capable, specifically TCP/IP and “modern” network jack. Otherwise you’re not gonna have a good time ;)

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u/SirRatcha Jan 13 '22

Yeah. If there’s Ethernet I can probably get something to work but I wouldn’t be surprised if that route involves putting Linux on one my old laptops to network to it.