Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer 2024 (aschmelyun.com)

Some past comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41742210

Been thinking of doing something similar, I have an Apple ImageWriter and Atari 1025 sitting in my basement. Does anyone know how long dot matrix ink ribbons last new?

I feel like the author cannot tell a serial and a parallel port apart?

I was not as surprised as the author that a 1980s printer doesn't support Unicode. Possibly because I owned a Star SG-10 around 1985 or 86.

I found a nearly new daisy wheel printer in my storage. Something like this might be a good use of it.

Nice work. (The author is right, that printing ASMR in the video is incredible.)

I find it funny that it only prints the headlines from reddit, true reddiots only read the headlines and the comments.

This is good because it's the daily news. Meaning, it ends. You get informed, not addicted.

That's one reason I use dead trees. The news ends. I get informed, and I'm the customer not the continuously-scrolling feed addict.

Contrary to popular belief, you don't need to be on top of every breaking news event. If there's something very important that you must know about, you will hear sirens or see an orange glow on the horizon.

I remember that NLQ font, I had Star's SG-10C with Commodore IEC interface as a kid

I miss bitmap fonts

I feel like this could be expanded into a printable daily newspaper project with all the sections newspapers have, customize-able; and also just a digital version for people who don't wanna print. (I've been circling around creating a project like that for myself)

I started printing out my calendar every morning on a dot-matrix printer as my alarm. It sure does its job, since it’s so loud and grating it wakes me up without fail. Needless to say, I don’t find it as ASMR-esque as OP, haha.

For decades, I have joked about "people printing out the internet" or having it printed out for them.

Nowadays, things like these are an obvious exercise in mental sanity, and I kinda envy this person.

Also, using a dot matrix printer is just beautifully retro. Love this project.