They use the small flash inside the DRM chip in the cartridge to store the telemetry, then the e-waste companies are paid by HP to read and send to the mothership the contents of the chips sent to recycle
They use the small flash inside the DRM chip in the cartridge to store the telemetry, then the e-waste companies are paid by HP to read and send to the mothership the contents of the chips sent to recycle
Those motherfuckers bricked my printer after 100 pages in 2020, presumably for refusing to sign up for their ink subscription. Really pissed me off to have to throw out a perfectly good printer.
I’m never buying another HP product.
That’s crazy lmao
Treating hardware, physical objects in your own home, like tracks that can be removed from access on Spotify at anytime. Creepy.
Imagine if one day someone just remote-locks your LG smartfridge because it’s been decided you’ve had enough calories for today. Black Mirror can’t even follow this shit rofl
the worst part:
hp printers used to be built like tanks. I had a laserjet 4 that kept going for 17 years with only occasional toner replacements (that were cheap). crisp fucking prints (b&w tho). and hp benchtop stuff like power supplies and scopes were fucking great too.
damned fucking shame.
I also stopped buying HP for a nearly identical reason. My brand new printer was 1 day out of warranty, I had gotten it as a gift unboxed it, and it wouldn’t connect to Wi-Fi (had no hardware ports on it only WiFi).
Those fuckers told me I could either:
A. Subscribe to their ink subscription plan and they’d tell me how to fix it.
B. Pay $75 one time and they’d tell me how to fix it.
I threw that motherfucker in the trash that day and then bought a cheap Cannon (no brothers in stock) that still works over a decade later.
Fuck HP completely.
Why trash it? Give it away, maybe someone else will have a router that the printer accepts. If they get it working, they won’t buy a new one and give HP money. (Warn them about the Instant Ink trap though)
HP stands for hot paninis, because that’s all their laptops are good for. I had one hit critical temp and fuckin crash so hard I had to reinstall the os. Haven’t given them a cent since.
I love my brother
Aren’t they advertised as subscription-only though?
And maybe you can hack it? They usually still have the ports on the board, because changing the production chain is more expensive than the extra parts.
I’ve never heard of a “subscription-only” printer though?
https://www.hp.com/us-en/all-in-plan/printers.html
There was some outrage a few years ago, because the printers get bricked if you unsubscribe.