Absolutely.
Google used to be better as well. And Reddit. And... well, enshittification affects everything, not just tech, but printers and food containing micro plastics and everything else we can buy.:-(
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lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 days ago
If anything, printers today are worse than they used to be in the 90s. For example, I don’t remember chips preventing you from using third party ink being a thing back then. So I believe the printing industry mafia has been spending those decades adding antifeatures to their designs.
And IMO it highlights how much we [society in general] need open hardware.
OpenStars@piefed.social 5 days ago
Malgas@beehaw.org 5 days ago
The old tractor-feed dot matrix printers never had great print quality, but they were built like tanks.