'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award
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Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them all forever!

‘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,

    • something_random_tho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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.orgEnglish
        10·
        10 months ago

        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.devEnglish
          3·
          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.worldEnglish
        4·
        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.

    • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

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