# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 9
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/5swkiqa
@prologic Hmm, good question. I haven’t checked the market, I got mine from someone I know. But to be honest, I’d suspect that buying a *used* one is actually your best shot, because there is virtually no market for these devices anymore, meaning *new* ones are very, very expensive. 🫤
FWIW, I have an OKI Microline 3390eco. Good thing is, you can still buy new cartridges for it.
If you want to buy a new device, check if it supports the “ESC/P” standard. That’s very widely supported.
@prologic Hmm, good question. I haven’t checked the market, I got mine from someone I know. But to be honest, I’d suspect that buying a *used* one is actually your best shot, because there is virtually no market for these devices anymore, meaning *new* ones are very, very expensive. 🫤
FWIW, I have an OKI Microline 3390eco. Good thing is, you can still buy new cartridges for it.
If you want to buy a new device, check if it supports the “ESC/P” standard. That’s very widely supported.
@movq Got a link to this
> ESC/P standard.
@movq Is there like a TL;DR of this standard? I can't say I remember this tbh 🤔
@prologic It’s quite similar to how escape sequences work in a terminal. ASCII text is printed as ASCII text and then an escape sequence can make it bold or underline and so on. Other escape sequences allow you to say “the following $n bytes are part of a bitmap image”, and then this gets printed at whatever the current position is (somewhat similar to SIXEL in a terminal).
It’s just that the *units* are a bit weird, because this is all done in bloody inch. 😅
@prologic It’s quite similar to how escape sequences work in a terminal. ASCII text is printed as ASCII text and then an escape sequence can make it bold or underline and so on. Other escape sequences allow you to say “the following $n bytes are part of a bitmap image”, and then this gets printed at whatever the current position is (somewhat similar to SIXEL in a terminal).
It’s just that the *units* are a bit weird, because this is all done in bloody inch. 😅
@movq Haha yeah rightio, and yeah inches suck 🤣