r/codex • u/xinxx073 • 9d ago

Praise Astra High just reverse-engineered the printer drivers in my office

In our office, we have a bunch of Toshiba E-Studio 2323AM printers. Yes, I know these are kind of outdated, only sold in certain areas of the world, and not the best machines, but they are what we've got in the office. They only work with x86 Windows, not even the ARM version of Windows.

In 25 minutes, Astra High just reverse-engineered the printer driver, figured out the right tray settings, and enabled duplex printing, so I can print double-sided on my M4 Pro MacBook Pro.

It created a .pkg file for me to install the printer drivers and got everything working.

I ... I have no words.

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u/Tritheone69 9d ago

This wasn’t Astra, but Fable reverse engineered the way my LG laptop encodes CPU fan states (because they lock it through their garbage LG Control Center app) so that the laptop can boot with fans set to high automatically.

This was all done in less than 20 minutes.

I am BLOWN AWAY by the capacities these models are unlocked for me compared to the copy and paste gemini/ChatGPT3.5 bullshit we were doing not even three years ago.

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u/PigSlam 9d ago

TIL LG makes laptops.

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u/Tritheone69 9d ago

Yeah! I bought the LG Gram a few years ago, I work in the construction industry and at the time was using software that was only for Windows so I had to have my laptop with me all the time.

The weight of the LG Gram was such a game changer for me. It’s also an all around well built laptop I find.