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'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al... (www.pcgamer.com)
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'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al...::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its printers when fitted with a third-party ink cartridge. Now the company's CEO,

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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 133 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I will thank him for his honesty and straight forward communication. I now know never to buy an HP printer.

[–] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I have a Brother laserjet I got on Amazon for $70 10 years ago. I print on it occasionally, and it always works. That thing has never needed new toner. It never jams. It just keeps going. Highly recommend finding a basic laserjet model from that brand.

[–] shadow@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I, too, love my old Brother laser printer. Their website is absolute garbage though. I don't know what they did to it, but it is just slow as hell.

Definitely spend the extra $10 for duplex printing or regret it for the rest of your life.

(Seriously, why even make non-diplex printers?)

[–] JDubbleu@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

My guess would be someone who doesn't know React well made it. I don't know React well and I've made some atrocities. You forget to wrap one statement in useEffect and it's all over.

[–] aksdb@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Companies can change. I have a HP LaserJet 6P that I use with a LPT-to-USB adapter. That thing still works fine. From that anecdote I could also highly recommend HP. But that printer is now 25 years old or so and the company changed a lot since then.

Brother could have changed in those 10 years. Or it could change in 10 more years.

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

I'll go one step further and never buy another HP product of any kind!