I hate that everything now is a subscription service instead of buying it and do whatever you want.
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Submitted 1 year ago by Crispy_Mate@lemmy.world to [deleted]
I hate that everything now is a subscription service instead of buying it and do whatever you want.
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I just bought a Brother laser printer for my dad, because he needed help changing the ink cartridges, after having printed maybe 8 pages in ½ a year. It’s just too stupid to use ink printers today, no matter if you print a little or a lot.
I’m guessing the laser cartridge will last my dad a decade. lol
And it uses dry toner, do it’ll never clog because you didn’t use it!
Exactly. We’ve had our color laser for about 14 years, and it still runs on the original toner cartridges!
Unused inkjet printers dry up. Turning it on regularly can help clean the heads and waste a little bit of ink to keep everything working, but whatever brand of inkjet cartridges you buy, you’ll run into this problem. There are ways to clean cartridges, but if you don’t print enough going laser printer is the only solution.
Make sure you actually listen to the manual and put those in a well-ventilated room, though. Those things spew so much heavy metals and other toxic compounds that I’m surprised there hasn’t been a massive health and safety law about just laser printers.
Good points on the ink jet. I’m not sure laser printers are really toxic. Yes 30-40 years ago there were problems with ozone for heavy printing environments, or if you sat right next to the printer. But AFAIK the ozone levels have been reduced, and for small printers it’s not a problem. While ozone is toxic, it is also naturally occurring, and we can tolerate low levels of it.
Regarding chemicals in the toner, it was a problem way way back, because in high volume environments that shit sometimes would be all over the place. Because containers weren’t tight enough. I don’t recall seeing toner in or around laser printers for home office for the past 2 decades. I’m guessing production environments have improved similarly too, but I haven’t been much in contact with those lately.
There are clear work environment regulations in most (western) countries, that date back to the early 80’s and even earlier. As a minimum those regulations must be met. So yes there are actually health and safety laws around laser printers. And AFAIK they are completely safe unless you are doing something illegal or incredibly stupid.
*buy it
Yesterday i got the standart setup steps from windows after booting. I use to skip them most of the time, because i don t want to use edge and so on and sometimes they reapear. Yesterday i thought, i’ll do them now, then never again this will bother me. When i got to the point of logging into my microsoft account i could not remember the password and had no possibility on the gui to get back and skip all, leaving me seemingly unable to use my own frickin computer. As i got more and more angry i clicked on “forgot password” which sends me an email with a code. I see the email appear on my phone and without even a chance of entering the code it sent me back to the enter password prompt. Even more angry and cursing to myself i pressed the forgort password text again leaving me with the same result. As i was close to exploding, my computer somehow decided to show “You are finished!” like he knew i had enough.
I fucking hate this shit with passion and purposely setup my PC without internet connected every damn time I format.
I once connected to WiFi during the setup and got stuck in the same place and I wanted to burn my house down.
And when this all wasn’t enough, your silence while setting up your pc gets interupted by this and you nearly get a heart attack because you where on full volume.
[youtu.be/Rp2rhM8YUZY](HI, I’M CORTANA!!!)
lmao
I was installing win 11 multiple times in VM on the same day. On 3d install I couldnt skip microsoft account with no internet lol. Same ISO, same PC, no internet wtf. First time I experienced that in my life and then I downloaded win 10. Im not gonna make microsoft account ever. We dont even have accounts on win 11 machines at work (we bought win 7 license and then upgraded legaly I guess). There was always option to skip or use offline account, but seems like some shit ai is trying to fool us or Im tripping
So this may be a dumb question but let’s take work stuff out of the equation. What are people doing in their personal lives that warrants the need to buy a personal printer for the home? Basically everything is digital…and if I need to print something which is very very rarely, I just do it at work and in one instance I went to the library. I don’t see any reason for me to buy a printer.
Mostly for amazon return labels. I bought a used brother laser printer with an extra cartigdge for like $50, at the time it was a cost I could justify.
I play D&D and print all my character sheets, and make spell cards. Also I print photos that I have taken, to decorate my house or if a friend wants one.
Paper maps of places I hike (multiple pages and copies for friends)
I have also made custom cards (birthdays and the like) in the past.
I bought a good inkjet printer because I like taking photos and printing them in physical form, so I can hang them in the house or give them as gifts.
Heh. Another symptom of the second gilded age we now find ourselves experiencing.
All your worries with printers disappear the moment you replace them with a scanner.
And your scanner worried disappear when you replace it with just taking photos of documents with your phone
Nah, lightning is always bad.
Watch out HP will probably disable scanning too.
Not really. I had an Epson multifunction that wouldn’t scan because I had an aftermarket ink cart in it. I confirmed with their tech support. I removed the non-OEM cart and still it wouldn’t scan until I put a fresh OEM one in. I didn’t even give it to goodwill; I recycled it. No one should have to put up with that bullshit. I won’t touch Epson products from now on. I bought a Brother laser multifunction and it runs like it should.
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Incredibly annoying. Especially with all these apps that want to charge you monthly. Fucking nuts thinking I’m gonna pay 30 a year for the rest of my life to look at radar.
There’s a recent post on HN talking about this similar behavior with content platforms.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36974358 old.reddit.com/…/apple_just_stole_hundreds_of_dol…
Basically users Apple account gets flagged for “fraudulent problems”. User loses access to all “bought”/rented content associated with Apple account. CS is useless. CS manager useless as well.
It’s a well documented story with any content platform. This is far from being an isolated issue.
Personally, piracy and ripping Blu-rays is back on the table for me and using a media server only accessible via VPN.
I was actually thinking of getting an Apple account and backing my files up to their cloud. Glad I read this before I made that mistake.
apple used to be my go to but decided to deplatform from them. All of the iTunes music, videos, and tv shows I bought over the years have been pirated or ripped to my media server.
All personal files and media is backed up on my personal cloud/server with redundant backups to another server that I own.
That Reddit thread full of people that just can’t believe Apple made a mistake is so… typical.
Just freecycled an almost new HP printer/scanner because of their ridiculous software locked in cartridges that print like 20 pages total. I specified in the listing that the ink was expensive and that it would be best for someone who printed almost never and just wanted a scanner.
To be fair, this person could be using a business printer. Large multifunction printers offices use can cost $10k+ and require A LOT of work so small companies and firms that can’t outright afford the upkeep usually lease the printer and that lease comes with warranties and maintenance covered by the company its leased from.
HP has something called an “instant ink” subscription plan
If you sign up for the plan, you cannot use ink official hp ink which is purchased in a store, you must use the ink hp ship’s you when you get low. If your payment is declined, the printer is disabled until you go through their hateful cancellation progress, or you fix your payment and let them ship you new cartridges.
This is 100% on a consumer printer.
And here's someone making excuses for a billion dollar company based on nothing but imagination. HP isn't your friend, they're only driven to seek profit.
What's more likely, that there's a legitimate reason the printer needs a subscription or that the printer company is just trying to nickle and dime the end user again to squeeze every penny out of them without providing additional value?
Wendigoon is a youtuber, i don’t think they need to print so much they’d requure an industrial sized printer
I doubt that Wendigoon is using a $10k+ business printer.
This is the reason I went with Epson for printing for many years, and had no issues! But I don't print anymore.
Mine has been collecting dust for a few years now, I stopped buying ink cartridges because I’d buy them and print just a few things once in awhile until that shit would just dry up even tho I didn’t use it all so fuck them.
Just go to Staples!
francisfordpoopola@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It very likely is tied to the firmware that bricked HPs around the world in May or so. HP is silent on it and customer service isn’t acknowledging the issue.