I hate that everything now is a subscription service instead of buying it and do whatever you want.
The printer business is tantamount to the gangster era. Fucking thieves.
This should be illegal, hell I have a TP-Link router and it’s got a subscription model for the features, that a decade ago were basic features of a router that you’re spending hundreds of dollars on. Unless we make it unpopular from a media/social standpoint, they’ll keep it up. Too make it worse, the router won’t even allow you to manually choose your own channels, you have to let it decide for you. Even if you have an IT background and can decipher the better channel, it decides to choose heavily trafficked channels on all bands. Let me make me own mistakes and learn, I don’t want to be forced like an invalid in a nursing home.
My last ever hp printer went in the e waste skip last week for a similar reason.
I don't get how this is legal, and my guess is that it isn't in EU and many other countries that aren't USA.
Anyone ever heard one of these stories from EU?
I just bought a Brother laser printer for my dad, because he needed help changing the ink cartridges, after having printed maybe 8 pages in ½ a year. It's just too stupid to use ink printers today, no matter if you print a little or a lot.
I'm guessing the laser cartridge will last my dad a decade. lol
debit card on file had expired
How do you input your credit card into the printer? Or is this some printer-lease-contract situation?
It very likely is tied to the firmware that bricked HPs around the world in May or so. HP is silent on it and customer service isn't acknowledging the issue.
Tankie bullshit! Obviously competition will mean corporations will act benevolently.
…I’ve somehow lived this long without realizing that HP printers apparently need subscriptions to run now.
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