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Bullshit (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

We are complaining about printers now? Outstanding! I can help! I never miss the opportunity to say double-fuck Hewlett Packard/Compaq and anything they’ve ever thought about producing with the heat of a thousand suns. Two shitty orgs that geometrically devolved into quintessential, archetypal enshittification enshrined, the unequalled horrors that are HP printers and drivers.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Are we having stereotypical talk shop about printers?

    I though it was an urban legend, but I did buy a used brother and I'm def delighted. Spent less on it than a round of inkjet for my crappy Canon. Guess what, 6 months later and I'm still using the toner that came in it. I'd be in the 2nd round of dried inkjet.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Why, yes. Yes, we are.

    My experience mirrors yours; 6 years later, still no issues. Moreover, old used laser Brother’s seem to love shittynonametoner.com cartridges as well.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    shitty no-names - they work fine. functional, and if I'd started with them, I doubt I'd ever perecieve a diff, but... for color laser - I find the og brother toner carts are much more vibrant and colors overlay (and therefore mix better). I almost wish I had two brother printers, one with OG expensive brother toner and another for all the print jobs I might want color for but don't care about fidelity.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Back in the day I inherited a Compaq laptop that had Windows 95 on it. I "upgraded" it to Windows 98, all was well for a year or so and then it started throwing BIOS errors. I couldn't work it out so eventually I ended up having to contact Compaq support. I explained what was going on and they said it was because I installed 98 and that one's only supposed to run 95.

    I said I didn't think that was it, because it ran 98 perfectly well for like a year before this happened and also it was a BIOS error, which presumably occurs before Windows even loads. They told me it was 98 and that machine was only meant to run 95. I tried a few more approaches and they just said the same thing over and over like a robot. Eventually I just gave up and was like never mind, I'll work it out myself.

    Turns out that on that laptop, the BIOS memory is stored on a watch battery like a fucking Nintendo Cartridge. New $1 battery, no more error. Also the last HP/Compaq thing I owned just because support was so shitty at me lol.

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