If these damned companies would stop relying on this stupid sub model and just offer decent products at a decent price and not worry about neverending growth, this wouldn’t be a fucking problem. God I hate the way shit is going.
Assuming I don’t want to buy an Epson printer from the late 90s, what are some actual options for DRM free no subscription printer? Or the entire industry is fucked?
Last time I checked, Brother was still the best brand for no nonsense, cheap printers, even with good Linux support. I have a laser printer from them.
Not sure if it’s still the case.
As for an ink printer… Man good luck with that.
Get a laser printer.
I wanna meet the engineer who designs devices to do this kind of thing. Like the people who work for apple and deliberately create proprietary interfaces and closed systems. Planned obsolescence. Machines that can’t be reused and end up in landfill. These people have received a technical education. Isn’t this way of creating technology obviously unsustainable to a highly educated person?
I’m wondering the same when I’m watching disassembly videos. So much of that stuff is obviously deliberately made to be unrepairable. Like charging ports soldered onto the motherboard. Never mind glued in batteries that you almost can’t replace without destroying the screen. Soft screws that fall apart. And little details too, like layouts pointlessly changing with every model so you can’t use your knowledge from a year ago, or use the same parts even for the most trivial things.
No sane designer can desire that.
It comes from the top. CEOs, marketing, sales. Sell more shit. Convince people to buy more shit by inconveniencing them.
Corporations are cancer.
What a legend
This is why having multiple numbers, email addresses and false data is ok to me.
I really appreciate the person who did this without complaint.
Heartwarming but damn, fuck you HP
My mother bought this HP shit behind my back and asked me to install it. Even though I work in IT in a publicly listed corporation, I fucking couldn’t do it without creating any accounts. I asked her to return that shit.
HP smart printers are vile and predatory.
Some time ago I borrowed a HP scanner from a friend. It was a big old thing, probably from the early 2000’s. The driver package was about a gigabyte of all kinds of bloatware, absolutely incredible. I extracted the two driver files I needed, worked without a problem.
Can’t imagine the crap this stuff has to come with now.
Yeah I have an Ember mug sitting in a cabinet somewhere. It was neat for a couple weeks then you realize how freaking dumb it is.
Other than the price-tag, what don’t you like about yours?
The battery life (on mine at least) was bad. The saucer part (which is the charger) broke on me twice. The pogo pins that connect to the contact ring on the bottom of the mug broke. It was often a crapshoot whether the mug would connect with the app on my phone.Which was a pain in the ass to have to use the app all the time to make changes to the temp (or see what temp you were at) and I actually discovered the I like the way the flavor and of coffee (and especially tea) change gradually as they cool (this isn’t a fault of the mug of course) and having the liquid always be hot robs you of that gradual flavor change (especially with tea). I also found the coffee to have a strong cooked flavor if you had to walk away and stop drinking it for a while. I also found it annoying to have to hand wash the mug every day (instead of throwing it in the dishwasher and grabbing a new one). And at the end of the day, since it was a corded object. You always had, at the very least, a saucer with a cable coming out of it running across your desk whether you were wanting to use the mug or not.
TL;DR; it’s a fun novelty, but so much more hassle than just using a normal coffee cup. Also, had some quality issues with mine.
