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Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you're the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3245/
I had an issue with my (old but trusty) scanner and I remembered encountering something very similar before but didn't remember what I did about it. So I looked for the solution which I knew must exist since I'd found it before. Was pleasantly surprised and hit by nostalgia to find a link to a forum that I used to spend my time on in the early 2000s that seemed to describe exactly my issue. Then I realised the post was by me, helping someone else with that exact problem, in 2004. Day ruined.
No I can't tell you what that issue was that was the same in 2004 and 2025, I don't remember, I'm old.