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Models with non-replaceable batteries designed for the device's entire 10 year lifespan generally work out to be the best option these days.

"New battery day" simply gets replaced by "new smoke detector day".

You might have to consider buying used.

Even older HP printers are fine (and I know people love to shit on them, but they too used to be perfectly safe and reasonable choices). More or less the safe/unsafe divide coincides with the switch from printers with 2x16 character displays to ones with full colour screens.

I've got a 2012-designed (but mine is 2017-built) HP Colour Laserjet CP5225dn, it has none of the modern lock-in shenanigans.

Just gotta find one that's new enough that consumables are still readily available (fortunately this usually isn't too difficult), and in good physical condition.

They also have quite the vocal range:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0K1q9JriDE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbhV0TP3jco

I don't want to get into a text editor war - because these are all good options - but it's definitely also worth giving the "Kate" editor from KDE a go, it's available as a native Windows app from the MS store and everything:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NWMW7BB59HW

I personally find it considerably nicer to use than Notepad++, and it means I don't have to give up 25 years of muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts when I have to switch to a windows machine.

Also some crazy how, it uses less RAM than Notepad‽ (With no files open, 61 vs 71MB) Not sure what Microsoft are up to, but it's definitely something strange.

I made this joke to people who work for AMD. I was a bit shocked that it hadn't occurred to them :D

Oh yeah, great purple colour when baked or fried.

Boiled, not so much ;)

The potatoes never stay as purple as you'd like.

We have these in NZ: https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/read-watch-play/maori/maori-potatoes (last image on the page).

They start out the bright royal purple in the image, but by the end of boiling they turn a blueish-grey colour, and the water will be a delightful maroon-crimson shade.

If you want it to look like you've blended up Barney the Dinosaur, you're going to be colouring them.

I have a bunch of driver bits for these, but never knew what they were called.

I don't think I've ever encountered a matching screw in the wild though.

Funny how if you don't cram 10,000 chickens into tiny cages all stacked on top of one another...

My general advice to people when shopping for used printers is if it's new enough to have a colour LCD, it's too new. Ones like this with a 2x 16 character display are predominantly safe.

This rule holds for more manufacturers than you might expect.

For my sins, I did end up with an HP. But it's a 2012 model (my specific one was built in 2017 however), well predating HP's bullshit. It's a colour A3 laser with Ethernet and automatic duplex, so I'm happy enough with it.

More importantly, how much butter are we going to have to steal to make enough hollandaise sauce?