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HP printer USB port covered with warning sticker in hopes you won't use it | Boing Boing (boingboing.net)
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HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …

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[–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

  1. Start with something simple like Mint or Fedora. It's quite easy to use.

  2. Can you be more specific about the specific cable and software? Odds are it works, or it can work with some tinkering.

  3. Brother printers work great in Linux in my experience.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    While your advice is sound, I think you might not have read @jrubal1462's comment in full. They already installed Linux, found FOSS alternatives for the proprietary dive software and their printer, to their shock, worked OOTB.

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