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New Brother printers are enshittified now too.
by crooked-v 3y ago
New Brother printers are enshittified now too.
- jamiek88 3y agoNooooo! Say it ain't so. I have an old B&W MFC that I was thinking of maybe upgrading but to be honest I have to real reason to other than to get colour and maybe document feeding for scanning but I print so rarely that I probably won't now as Brother was going to be my one and only port of call for this. When did this happen?! Can we get older versions still maybe?
- imposterr 3y agoCould you expand? The last Brother product I have is from 5 years ago and it didn't seem to have started its enshittification yet.
- justinclift 3y agoAs mentioned by @Lightbody in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago> New Brother printers are encraptified now too. No, new Brothers are fine. A while back where were a very few models that got a questionable firmware release. As I recall, they weren't common retail models. The firmware might have been a beta. Brother got some crap for it, people circulated the IPs of their update servers (for blocking) and that was the end of it. I regularly buy new Brothers for customers. They're fully fine.
- jpablo 3y agoI was researching a brother laser recently and there were a shitload reports of the printer crapping out with non original toner after a power outtage. Also if you were buying non original toner you had to transfer your drm chip to the new toner.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y agoWord for word, this reads like HP. It perfectly describes the Laserjet M402, for example. This stuff is my day job and what you describe isn't Brother-like in the least.