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HP brings a broad new meaning to Dodgy. Shotty and shabby. Its wholly unethical how hey manage their affairs, but now to hear they are disabling their own print
by ForOldHack 2y ago
HP brings a broad new meaning to Dodgy. Shotty and shabby. Its wholly unethical how hey manage their affairs, but now to hear they are disabling their own printers, oh my how unfortunate, and I shall decline the gift of any, and inform potential buyers of their ... unwholesomeness. I was going to limit myself to brothers, but I hear they are now on the 'short term profits over everything.' type of CRM. Customer Relation Managment: Screw you.
- genewitch 2y agoI tell people not to buy HP and to buy a brother, but what did they change? Mine works fine, even with third party cartridges. Printer ink has always been hilariously overpriced. A gallon of IBM check sorting machine ink was $25. And that's magnetic ink. Extract as much value from your users as possible I guess. If some subset of users figure out how to at least lube up, first, disable their hardware.
- codr7 2y agoMost of this world is firmly on the 'short term profits over everything' bandwagon by now.
- ajnin 2y agoFWIW Brother denies it made any of the customer-hostile firmware updates Louis Rossman recently accused them of, according to this other Ars Technica article: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using...