How to Build a Fully Local Thermal Printer Server (No Cloud Required)
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If you've ever tried to print a simple receipt, label, or note from a thermal printer, you've probably been funneled into some cloud-connected app with a monthly subscription. For a device that literally just needs to receive bytes and heat up paper, that's absurd. I recently set up a completely local thermal printer appliance — no accounts, no cloud, no subscriptions. Just a single-board computer, a cheap thermal printer, and some open-source software. It took me longer than it should have bec