misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

Uh. *coughs* False alarm. The printer is now listening to the PC again.

It can help to reseat one end of a USB cable. It can also help to plug in the other end.

As for the buzzing? *shrug* Nothing seems broken and I don't smell ozone, so I'm calling it harmless for now.

Why does Windows Explorer hurt me like this?

(Note the circled search term and the yellow "this part matched" highlights.)

When I left Pennsylvania for the the Puget Sound area in 2006I left behind a beast of a color HP Laserjet 5, and I kind of regretted it immmediately. In 2013 I purchased an inexpensive and relatively lightweight color laser printer, a Xerox Phaser 6500N.) It's seen many years of varied use, from board game tokens to gift tags to comic shop signs to tabletop roleplay maps to some banal fucking paperwork. It survived being dragged to more than one convention to make wall signs. It didn't complain much about third-party toner and I found its color registration issues endearing.

I really noticed when I didn't have it available for a weeks because it had to be temnporarily moved. I finally got to hook it back up today, and I was really glad because I wanted to print a thing.

It'll print its internal test pages, but the USB connection isn't working and the printer makes a brand new buzzing sound while it's on.

It's the most reliable printer I've ever owned. (The LaserJet had some issues.) I really hope I can figure out what's wrong with it quickly so it can maintain that title!

@Leucrotta Hellebores are really pretty! But poisonous.

I especially had to comment because there's a unicorn in our tabletop game named Hellebore. She is also pretty... and, in a different way, extremely poisonous. Fun times!

@Doephin Really, I just need a couple junctions, but I'll admit to being slightly terrified that I'll blow something up in the attempt. If only shortcuts worked for this!

There are many times I wish to have the same file or folder appear in two or more places at once.

Windows does not make this convenient.

@Leucrotta This happens with me and videogames a lot, though instead of love themes it's usually tracks associated with outer space or the otherworldly – eerily "open" chords, a sort of awestruck and reverant feel, wide stereo field (where applicable) – and I associate them with calm winter nights, especially during my time in A².