• melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    12 days ago

    Had to log in install an app and allow location (which I will be turning off) just to be able to print a test page and run the head cleaning thing… on a printer.

    I swear ten years ago this crap would have seemed like malware. Requiring a full colour cartridge to print b+w is definitely a scam.

    No black is printing despite it saying the cartridge has some. Waiting on a second level clean and next I’m going to try installing new drivers.

    Missing my hulking reliable old printer scanner and wishing I didn’t buy a HP.

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      12 days ago

      Cory Doctorow talks about how printer ink is the most expensive liquid you can buy as a consumer. More expensive than pure bred racing horse semen (gross comparison though). He suggests a response to US tariffs being that Canada disregards printer firmware copyright and undercuts the US market by offering 3rd party printer ink cartridges via illegal reverse engineering.