They use the small flash inside the DRM chip in the cartridge to store the telemetry, then the e-waste companies are paid by HP to read and send to the mothership the contents of the chips sent to recycle

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[–] 2 points 11 months ago

I just retired a 20ish year old brother multifunction black and white laser for a new Brother color LED multifunction.

Very happy with both, the one I just retired still worked great, but I got tired of jumping through hoops to get the network scanner drivers working on current OSes.

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