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Even paper glows (lemmy.world)
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[–] 63 points 2 years ago (13 children)

I'm pretty sure this measure was requested either by the government or some big three letter agency.

I doubt that, if all printers were manufactured by a government monopoly, you wouldn't have this shit baked in. It would probably be way worse

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I'm not at all asking for a government monopoly on making printers, if that wasn't clear.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Open source printers

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's insufferable how people will respond to "We shouldn't let corporations do this" with "OK SO YOU WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO DO IT?!?!"

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's insufferable that the answer is always "build your own." Lemmy assumes that every single person on the planet is an engineer with enough free time to design, build, and troubleshoot every device they own.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    It's based in rugged hypercapitalist bootstrap thinking. If something is broken just do it yourself! Even though that's never realistic, and even if it were, no one person can or should be expected to do everything.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I do think it shoukd be left up to (potentially big) companies; however, we should put restrictions on e.g. ink cartrige compatibility, just like what the EU is trying for smartphones and messagin right now.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It was requested by the secret service as a countermeasure for counterfitting. More frequently it's been used to "catch other criminals", at least that's what they say.

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