the big problem with my technology questions and hacking impulses is that they're all based on making 15 year old technology work with modern technology. i got our ancient a3 scanner to work with mac a long while back just by downloading the latest drivers, but on windows 10 it just sounds like it's tearing itself apart
i feel like on the old internet there was probably a guy with an angelfire page about how to write a whole TWAIN driver. on the new internet i find nothing but abandoned forum posts asking the same question, OR questionable third party driver suppliers trying to get me to download their updater app
tbh i feel like the internet as a whole used to be better at answering questions. maybe that weird hobbyist angelfire page is still out there but the search engine game has been effectively fucked by commercial SEO 🙃
@wolfteeth If you want to get answers to anything on the internet you have to hope someone answered it already on a forum before 2009 or (here at least) you have to join a dedicated facebook group about the issue and hope the algorithm doesn't screw you over.
