I used to sell printers. Canon printers, more than any other brand, are purely just a vehicle to sell photo paper, ink, and ink subscriptions. Their laser units are another story, quite capable machines (not sure about lifelong reliability), but the inkjets are hot garbage. They have multiple models that cost less to purchase than the replacement cartridges… With the sort of build quality you might expect at that price point. HP, as awful as they are, never stooped quite that low afaik. Brother laser is the way to go, always.

Edit just to shit even harder on Canon, the amount of those printers returned to store was 3x all others put together. Only had one Brother returned in my entire 2 years there, and that was only because of logistics, not the machine itself.

You’re absolutely right!

Funny, I prefer drip over swag. Though after hearing swag for over a decade it doesn’t sound shit like it used to.

There are dozens of us! Dozens!!!

Because once those hit a certain danger threshold there’s not much to ‘bring back’ right? I vaguely recall reading that somewhere.

The ammo can is a solid idea, wish I thought of that myself. That would raise the safety factor enough for me to give it a try once or twice as well. Still, covered outdoors area or similar. Agreed on having a healthy fear/respect for big cells, it’s wild how much power we can fit in a battery these days and even more so to watch it escape.

Nice trick but there’s a reason the charger is designed to not do what you’re getting it to do. Preventing explosions and such. I’d recommend looking up why/how the chemistries are different at low voltage so you can ride the line more safely