Miraculous button makes things work again.

I told about having the wires from a trial of a spinal cord stimulator removed, followed by the worst pain I'd ever had, tapering off over an hour, paralysis from the waist down for 3 hours, and them urinary incontinence which when I posted had lasted for weeks and I feared would last the rest of my life.

Thank you again, and a follow-up.

The pain doctor I don't like or trust anymore, because of his lack of sympathy and the ongoing feeling that he made some error that caused all this. He may be worried that saying something nice would make him liable, but Maryland like most states has an "apology law" that prevents that. Apologies aren't even admissible in court (unless you say, "I'm sorry I gave you 3 times the normal dose.")

The spine surgeon told me the hematoma on my spinal cord would take 6 to

The urologist told me that normally urinary incontinence caused by a hematoma on the spinal cord resolves itself positively, but it can take

Last Friday was 6 weeks and 2 days and the MRI that day showed the hematoma was completely gone. Five days later, two days ago, exactly 7 weeks, Wednesday at noon was the start of a two and a half day period up to right now where I seem to be normal again. So if nothing goes wrong, I'm back to normal. Hooray!!! Back still hurts like before but no more diapers.

Of course now, if I have to pee in the middle of the night, I'll have to wake up and get up to do it, instead of just sleeping through it.

Spine surgeon says he's had 1000 patients over the last 10 years who had spinal cord stimulators tested or both tested and then installed under the skin. 70% benefit from the trial, unlike me, and go ahead with the full install. And he's never had a patient with the bad effects I had,

Brother MFC-L2740DW printer:

If the owner pulls out the paper tray while it's printing, the printer does not stop printing. Instead, it cracks the tiny feed gear. I have some photos I took of the damage and subsequent repair, but I can't find them right now.

In the front center of the paper tray, there is a translucent roller that is part of the paper feed mechanism. Static electricity causes this roller to be packed with paper dust and eventually stop turning, causing a paper jam or other paper feed failure. The paper dust hides UNDER the translucent roller and is easily cleaned out if you can figure out how it's done. I can take a few photos showing how if you want them.

Near the translucent roller in the paper tray is a friction pap. The pad and the feed roller above its position in the paper tray tend to develop a smooth polish. The loss of friction causes feed failures. Brother's idea of repair parts are toner carts and drums:

The paper stop near the back of the paper tray is fragile. Push too hard inserting a stack of paper and it will break. This should work as a replacement:

The main PCB in the printer uses a super capacitor instead of the usual lithium coin cell to provide power to the circuitry that stores the printer settings. When it fails, printer won't turn on. Replacing the super capacitor involves disassembly and soldering. YouTube video on how to replace the super cap:

That should be enough for now...

The "Ed" referred to here wrote me in reply, "Yeah, depending on which of a few thousand engineering shops designed the DVDR, there could be some Reset Button hidden in the middle of nowhere that brings it back to life

by possibly deleting a bloated task-log/calendar that was not given enough memory/disc-space for the unforeseen service life of ~15 years."

I don't think that would apply to my DVDR, since afaik there is no reason for it to keep a log. What do you all think?

But at least in some cases, the switch would be curing a real problem. Of course they could arrange for the display, instead of saying play or rewiund to see "E3, see manual" and if there is no room for that, or they forgot to code it, they could just put it in the printed owners manual. Still, it molifies me a tiny bit that there could be a real problem that the switch cures.

I have days like that too. As long as it's not weeks, I'm not too worried.

here's an old series of articles by the kind folk at EFF describing the issue.

Nope. It was printed using a monochrome typewriter. We didn't have color laser printers in 1961:

That's not the same certificate that was originally posted on the White House website and caused all the furore around the forgery accusations, though. The original image was a clumsy composite paste-up job and a clear and obvious forgery. This is a different image altogether (but at least this time they've remembered to flatten it!)

I suspect Barry's original certificate was printed in Kenya.

Obammy's fake certificate was printed on some Deep State laser printer.

I probably have read that long ago.

Hum. Is this an USA thing? I think the EU privacy laws should make this illegal in the EU.

I found very little on the topic for UK or EU printers:

"EU: Printer Tracking Dots May Violate Human Rights" (Feb 18, 2008)

"Why printers add secret tracking dots" (Jun 3, 2020)

"German researchers defeat printers' doc-tracking dots" (Jun 27, 2018)

Please don't top post. Top posting destroys the flow of the thread.