After painstakingly installing printer drivers for a thermal printer at work I realized I still don’t truly understand what I was installing. (Bonus points if you can cover video card drivers too cause idk what drivers are In that sense either)
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Remember the scene in the matrix where Trinity gets into the helicopter and says “I need the info on a something something (helicopter type)!” And then it downloads into her brain and suddenly she knows what buttons there are and where they are and the specifics of that particular type of helicopter? That is essentially what drivers are. For a given piece of hardware, whether it be a printer or a usb stick or whatever, it tells the computer what all that device can do and where the (virtual) “button” is to do it.
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