• Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    My HP laser printer was never connected to the internet and I exclusively use third-party cartridges. We need more dumb devices.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]
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    20 hours ago

    HP is clearly bullshitting, but let us pretend for a moment that it wasn’t.

    Why do those cartridges have a chip on first place, instead of being simple mechanical devices?

    And, if there’s any remotely good reason to include a chip in a cartridge (pffft), why is the printer executing code from it, instead of reading its contents as raw data?

    That stinks incompetence and disregard towards customers from a distance dammit.

    Are you getting what I mean? If HP is bullshitting (yes, it is), you shouldn’t touch its trashy printers with a 3m pole; and if it wasn’t bullshitting, you should still not touch its trashy printers with a 3m pole!