Just hit a wall trying to get my old scanner to talk to a new laptop

I have this old flatbed scanner from about 2010, a Canon CanoScan, that still works fine. Got a new Windows laptop last month and figured I'd just plug it in and go. Nope. Spent a whole afternoon looking for drivers, but the official ones stopped at Windows 8. Tried every compatibility mode trick and a bunch of forums. Someone on Reddit said a specific third-party driver worked, but that just made my screen flicker. Ended up finding a weird workaround using an old virtual machine setup to trick it. What should have taken 20 minutes took me two full days. Has anyone else had to jump through hoops to keep old hardware running?

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vals382mo ago

What's the point of new tech?

cameronrivera2mo ago

Forced obsolescence is a feature, not a bug.

spencer_sanchez6712d ago

Man, my old clippers just straight up died after two years and they wanted me to buy a whole new set instead of just replacing a battery. Finally found a brand that lets you swap parts out, been running the same pair for like five years now just replacing blades and brushes. That's the way it should be, not this planned breakdown nonsense.