It hurt itself in it's confusion!
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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How in the fuck is HP still alive? The company should crash and burn.
Well....they make other products too. I'm sure Laptop/Desktop/Server department transferred some money to Printer department
I used to work in a large oil company for a decade. Around 2018, everyone got new HP laptops with touch screen. We're talking 20.000 permanent employees, and more than 40.000 externals (externals did not get a laptop). After a couple of weeks, people started complaining about the fan making a lot of noise.
After HP checked the laptops, it turned out that the fan was not powerful enough. Their solution? Limit the CPU speed. And my company just agreed. Fuck that noise!!!
I already started boicotting them in 2009, when i purchased a computer, which had an S-video. But it didn't work. Went to the store that sold it, they told me to contact HP. I did, and they just told me that it was a error on the entire laptop series, and that I should've known about it before I purchased the laptop.
Go fuck yourself, HP!
I decided to stay away from HP around that time. I was regularly troubleshooting a friend's laptop and thought he got tons of virus and spywares from sketchy porn sites must be why he has weird issues with intermittent Internet... Turns out it was his wifi adapter being killed by the cpu heat. A real bad design that HP refused to acknowledge to not have to pay for its mistakes. Then years later they acknowledge there was an issue once nobody is having those machines anymore. Friend could never get even a partial refund.
Sounds exactly like HP.
I gather that you're not in Europe. Here they would have bee sent packing with their shitty hardware (in both cases).
This was in Norway! I was fucking flabbergasted when it happened!
The story about my personal laptop was in Australia.
Yeah HP’s recent elite book is unfortunately popular with businesses. My office got them when we were about to be issued. Everyone complained, so they decided to move back to Dell for standard issue. Unfortunately I’m stuck with HP for next few years.
My condolences.
HP and HPE are two separate entities too.
People sure like to just toss the word "brick" around. These printers are still functional enough to get another firmware update to fix them. You know what can't? Bricks
Yeah, can we go back to when "brick" had a very specific definition with respect to electronics?
Pfft, in my time bricks had a very specific definition with respect to masonry work.
You damn kids with your fake definitions for real words, I swear it's because y'all are rotting your brains away with all these new mediums for acquiring news.
It's really the same definition. The first time i heard it in this context was with modding/rooting smartphones (in the early days). If you fucked up a step, your device could end up in a completely unusable and unrecoverable state. At that point, its only use would be as an expensive brick
Exactly. Bricking is about as serious as it gets when it comes to issues with devices. If you can use it at all at any point in the future (I guess without professional refurbishment), then it's not bricked.
You're funny. It's 2025, words no longer have any meaning.
It used to make me mad. Now it just makes me sad.
Not if you have IOT smart bricks!
My wife bought one of these pieces of shit before we got together. A few months back I finally got to the point where I had the "honey we need to throw out your printer and get a new one."
"OK - should we give it to my sister or see if any of our friends want this?"
"I'm not sure I dislike any of your friends or family enough to inflict this much frustration on them."
They learned that Brother got as shitty, so they tried to keep the shittiest title.
Brother as well? What happened? Every time the HP printers topic comes up, I see recommendations to get a Brother. Begrudgingly, I still use my HP, I can't justify getting rid of a working printer but Brother would have been my first option when the time came to replace it.
Brother was caught recently using software to block third party toner cartridges like HP did.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/brother-denies-firmware-blocks-third-165556103.html
Hopefully this isn't Brother enshittifing their own product, but it's possible.
That doesn't look good. At least the EU watchdogs are punishing HP for this type of tactics. Hopefully the other manufacturers will take a hint and won't try this shit on EU customers and hopefully other regulators will follow through
Clearly those cartridges must've been made by some merry band of maritime robbers. You know, the kind of criminals who'd force you to give them your money, but give you nothing of proportional value in return.
Could be that the problem isn't the firmware per se.
Don't buy anything HP.
What about the people who already own HPs. Fuck you HP
Go buy a ThinkPad.
We were talking about Printers, my friend
Oh! Go buy a Brother
I've found the computers are fine.
Enterprise equipment is durable.
Consumer laptops fall apart.
"You all keep saying we've enshittified printers so you all lose your printing rights until you think about what you've done"
Class action suit when??
Sure, let's make them pay a paltry sum that mostly enriches the lawyers, and everyone else gets a check for a nickel.
Everyone file a small claims case at the same time!
I too have made the mistake of flipping an if statement. It was clearly supposed to happen to non-HP cartridges.
Wow I'm in shock. HP would never do such thing 🙄
Imagine how many 1,000s of other users are being affected by this and just think their printer broke.
I mean, it did.
It's rarely to see HP shot it's own foot
Karma
Who's ready to go all Office Space on these things?
I forgot to set my printer to the internal only IP range and it updated when I turned it on. Hopefully mine is OK, or I can find old firmware.