• @essteeyou@lemmy.world
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    85 months ago

    I was interested until I hit this sentence:

    I use PHP as my language of choice in a day-to-day basis, and this is no exception.

      • Xyre
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        25 months ago

        Likely because it’s $current_year and there are better choices available.

  • hotspur
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    105 months ago

    Man, I wonder if it’s challenging to source a steady supply of paper for that thing…

  • geekwithsoul
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    05 months ago

    So, a newspaper with a lot of extra steps? I understand the gee whizness of getting this all to work but not really sure there’s a solid “why” to this.

    • @Quik@infosec.pub
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      35 months ago

      Yeah, but I don’t know whether you’ve recently taken a look in one of the local newspapers— being able to select topics you want to read about may very well be worth the extra effort (also, fun of course)

      • @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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        15 months ago

        You aren’t actually forced to read every article in a newspaper. Though you will have to scan over the headlines, so you will have a small awareness of things happening in the world. But is that a bad thing?

      • geekwithsoul
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        35 months ago

        Maybe? But in the article he was talking about his priority being that he wanted to disconnect from his phone but still wanted news. Just seems there’s been a solution for that for a few centuries now. His solution seemed to me at least to be a lemon that wasn’t worth the squeeze as it were.

        • @jqubed@lemmy.world
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          25 months ago

          I’m assuming they still print newspapers, but I can’t remember when I last saw our local paper for sale at a store. The vending machines are long gone.

          • @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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            45 months ago

            I’d actually be interested to see a cost breakdown between this and just buying a newspaper subscription; it looks like he spent about $100 on materials, plus then there’s the ongoing costs of electricity (negligible), printer ribbons, and paper. Ribbons appear to be about $1 / ea if you buy in bulk, and I don’t recall how much printing you get out of a single ribbon, but let’s assume a 24 pack is enough to last you a year. Paper seems to be about $30 / 1000 sheets, so assuming he sticks to the single-page-per-day format, that’ll last almost 3 years.

            So up front costs, $100 Ongoing costs, $35 / year, roughly.

            Newspaper subscription is about $150 / year, so this’ll actually be cost effective if he keeps it up. Of course, you’re getting a lot less news than you would from a newspaper subscription, so the relative value is questionable there.

    • @Abnorc@lemm.ee
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      05 months ago

      There are pictures and ads in a newspaper. This is much more minimalistic.