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Enshitification

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

HP is clearly bullshitting, but let us pretend for a moment that it wasn't.

Why do those cartridges have a chip on first place, instead of being simple mechanical devices?

And, if there's any remotely good reason to include a chip in a cartridge (pffft), why is the printer executing code from it, instead of reading its contents as raw data?

That stinks incompetence and disregard towards customers from a distance dammit.

Are you getting what I mean? If HP is bullshitting (yes, it is), you shouldn't touch its trashy printers with a 3m pole; and if it wasn't bullshitting, you should still not touch its trashy printers with a 3m pole!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Friends don’t let friends buy an hp printer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

HP anything, unless they specifically want a space heater that can check email.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah, I know tons of people who got their printer hacked, you lying liars.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Oh noes, the hackers are hackering the ink

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I don't buy HP printers because of... hackers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

My HP laser printer was never connected to the internet and I exclusively use third-party cartridges. We need more dumb devices.