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If you truly want to own the devices you buy, once they’re home add firewall rules to block their connectivity to their manufacturers, ad servers. Your smart t
by meitham 4y ago
If you truly want to own the devices you buy, once they’re home add firewall rules to block their connectivity to their manufacturers, ad servers. Your smart tv or printer can continue to happily work without access to HP cloud servers.
- imposterr 4y agoThis is until 5G becomes so ubiquitous that manufactures start including connectivity chips in all their devices so they don't have to rely on you connecting to the internet <:{o
- HPsquared 4y agoThat's where the tinfoil-lined house with firewalled Wi-Fi comes into its own.
- iso1631 4y agoWhy couldn't they do that with 4G
- vinyl7 4y agoThe network couldn't handle that many devices
- criddell 4y agoIf the printer has Wi-Fi, then all that really needs to happen is a business agreement with Amazon Sidewalk or Xfinity WiFi and a software update. If that happens, then lots of those offline printers could be online overnight.
- timbit42 4y agoNothing a bit of tinfoil around the 5G module couldn't fix.
- digitalsushi 4y agoat least until they learn how to program a 'timer'
- ytch 4y agoMaybe one day they may connect to internet by other neighbor devices like Amazon Sidewalk: https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/amazon-echo-shares-your-internet-with-the-neighbors-heres-how-to-turn-off-amazon-sidewalk/ https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/amazon-echo-shares-your...
- josephcsible 4y agoI'm pretty sure that if you did that, rather than being able to print without a subscription, you'd be unable to print even with a subscription.
- timbit42 4y agoAt least you'd know right away so you have time to return the printer and buy another brand.