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hp hate (thelemmy.club)
submitted 7 months ago by [M] to c/ethicalconsumerism@sh.itjust.works
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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/flippanarchy/p/614149/hp-hate

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[–] 44 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They put a sticker over the USB port to pigeon hole you into using their shit software hp smart. Hp smart then tries to get you on the ink subscription.

Credit card and email harvesting. Hoping you forget.

They're easily the worst but even brother has an ink subscription now. They're just not as fuck you about it. One day I'm sure.

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    • [–] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I have never heard a better reason to take a bat to a printer.

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    • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I was radicalized when I found out you needed a subscription in order to rotate a pdf in Adobe.

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    • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Brother.

    Its printers used to be kinda so-so, but HP and the other brands decided to become so shitty - Brother became number 1 by remaining stagnant.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Thanks to techies here and on the other site I won't name, after 30 years I moved to dry ink. My laser Brother I bought used for 80$ with 3 full cartridges and an open one, will last me until I die. I can print 3500 pages! Laser is beyond superior vs inkjet. It's not even comparable.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    Seconded! At least, about the brand loyalty, can't speak to the claim of them being stagnant.

    I'm 51. I'm on my 3rd laser printer, ever. I shudder to think about how many inkjets I would've gone through, judging by the struggles I have seen in other households of just my own family.

    First one was a giant thing from Oki whose main beauty was that it did proper PostScript and had both ethernet (10-base T) and AppleTalk, which we needed. The other ones were from Brother, first a black and white model and now a colour thing with duplex and a scanner. Not great for photos but everything else it just owns.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I've had the same Brother printer since 2009, my ex left it with me in 2015 and I still have it.

    I still haven't changed the toner cartridge, it stays unplugged and unhooked except 2-3 times a year when I need a shipping label printed.

    I watched a video yesterday about these $195 printers or you rent for $9 a month for two years that end up costing 50 bucks more at the end of the rental period and you still don't own the printer after that. If you print more than 20 pages a month then you get charged more.

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    • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    HP Printer stories. You think, "Ah, I haven't seen one in a long time. I guess everyone finally understands what a huge fucking nightmare they're designed to be."

    *click*

    Oh. Well. Hahahahaha. Welcome to the party, pal.

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    [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    I fucking love Wendigoon

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    [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    This can't be true, right?

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    • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Don't know what everyone is bitching about. They have an option to enter a bank routing and account number option so this won't happen.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Don’t worry, I understood that you were joking.

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

    User name doesn't check out?

    Sometimes you just got to light a match and watch the world burn.

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    • [+] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
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    [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I used to short circuit HP ink canisters, back when that was doable anyways. Like fuck, even if the color inks are empty, so what if I wanna print in black/white/grey?

    That was before HP enshittified their printers..

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