This is how I finally felt today about my printer.... [View all]

I have a tax document I desperately need to print out. I guess I could finagle a way to have it mailed to me but nope, gonna do it all high-tech. It's a Brother HL-L2340DW monochrome printer (don't even get started on tech support...will explain why). Worked great with both USB and wireless.

Well, I have not used it in months because I don't print much stuff out, no need to. I had left it just plugged into the wall (big mistake) during our little hurricane back in September.

Long story short, the damn thing will NOT work in Windows 8 or Windows 10 whatsoever. I guess I could have gotten really ambitious and tried Windows 7 (yes it's an older model) but meh.... I even called freaking Brother and spent an hour on the phone. I tweeted Microsoft and one of the nice folks on the Insiders team took all my info, but nope, no resolution there either. Yes, I tried it with stable Windows 10 too, nopers. I even tried the oldest version of Windows 10 I had, which is the initial one way back in 2015. Yes, I had the exactly correct printer software from the Brothers site itself. The Brothers rep verified it and we both struggled with it.

I'll spare you all the geeky details. Finally today, I just F****** GAVE UP LOL and decided ok, the printer is probably f**** up because of a power surge when the power came back on after our hurricane. It didn't TOTALLY f*** it up, no that would be too obvious. Just enough that it will NOT work when I need the damn thing to work.

I just bought a new cheapy Brother printer that actually replaces this one. Just not worth it any more. Nope. Life is too short to get more gray hairs off this stupid f***** printer. Whew, now I feel better LOL

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