I think I wanna get into AI; I wanna create an AI that configures and troubleshoots printers for me.

Those things are worse than the devil and all his demons together.

Fair point, the only thing I haven't figured out yet is why there is no fucking competition on the printer market. I mean they are (mostly) shitty products with awful support and overpriced ink

Considering that I saw this rant right when someone asked me to fix a printer, this really hits home.

All the plusses!!

Start learning HTML then, it's the first step!

@jonii I actually did something like that at work. On a web page you enter your computer name and an automatic troubleshooter starts up that checks your computer for drivers issues, compares that with the print server, checks for queue errors etc etc. If you select a specific Citrix application that you're having issues with unit will also check the corresponding terminal server. It easily sorting out 60-70% of the usual printer issues at work.

@obia is it open source? If not, this would 100s of stars

@obia dude that's awesome. Job automation on point.

@chabad360 unfortunately not, as the code is technically owned by my company and also made for our speficic environment.

@obia couldn't the system technically be made somewhat modular so all that needs to be changed is what printers and driver's it's dealing with? (Although I understand if that's almost rewriting the whole thing)

Also what does it do if a toner is low? Or does you company periodically buy more toner.

@chabad360 yes it would definitely be possible to break out bits and pieces to independent components. As for toners with buy as we go. We've looked into buying automatic toner deliveries as a service but apparently the business case said it wasn't worth it. Which to me doesn't make sense but that's another story.

@obia oh well the idea is out there now