• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    Yeah. Closest we come to something like that is either scan to email (directly from the printer) or scan to (network) folder. I’ve used both in the past, but both require a network connection.

    If they had a network connection to the printer then the user would have direct access to it, and they wouldn’t need a computer to act as a print server.

    Hilariously, in that case, the printer has Ethernet, so it’s entirely possible to do what they want. They just need to find a way to plug the printer into Ethernet. I explained this to them, they basically said that there was no way they could do that. Sure. Ok.

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      21 hours ago

      I explained this to them, they basically said that there was no way they could do that.

      Hahah, they’re actually equipped with RJ45 ports.

      I don’t think they understand that printer can connect itself directly to a network by the sounds of what you’ve been writing. And I don’t believe they’re incapable of understanding it. But it sure fucking felt that way a lot of the time with IT-support, and it wasn’t about me being an autist, as none of those issues affected me in customer service jobs.

      You should just set that up for them, then show how it works and then they’ll go “aaaaaaaaa that’s what you meant with all the annoying rambling phone call and emails I got from you after our last ticket”

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        8 hours ago

        I would, but I don’t give any shits about them.

        I would suggest it to my sales team to pursue it, but I couldn’t be arsed to bother.

        They want to be dumb, cool.

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          6 hours ago

          I was never senior enough to really ignore anything to be honest, didn’t spend all that long in the field

          They want to be dumb, cool.

          I don’t think they do… they just are?

          Which is kinda sad. They can’t help it. Well they could, if it weren’t for their personalities, I guess.

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            1 hour ago

            Willful ignorance.

            They put in effort to understand as little as they can.

            Maybe that’s a personality quirk, maybe their brain don’t work right, who the hell knows. But they try to know only as much as they have to in order to do the job.

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              47 minutes ago

              Yeah

              “The higher, pretentious form of stupidity stands only too often in crass opposition to [its] honorable form. It is not so much lack of intelli gence as failure of intelligence, for the reason that it presumes to accomplishments to which it has no right … The stupidity this addresses is no mental illness, yet it is most lethal; a dangerous disease of the mind that endangers life itself. … [S]ince the ‘higher stupidity’ consists not in an inability to understand but in a refusal to understand, any healing or reversal of it will not occur through rational argumentation, through a greater accumulation of data and knowledge, or through experiencing new and different feelings … We may say that the reversal of a spiritual sickness must entail a spiritual cure"

              https://web.archive.org/web/20250314112627/https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/one-crucial-word/