To put it another way: HP printers are so poorly designed that ink cartridges are vectors for viruses

What a flaming pile of bullshit: HP is cancer when it comes to consumer printers.

I don’t get people buying HP printers either. They did make really good printers 2~3 decades ago (absolutely loved my Deskjet 695C and the cartridges weren’t really hard to refill), but recently their printers are nothing more than e-waste.

Today you should just get a Brother laser printer.

This problem was solved decades ago: don’t have circuits on the ink cartridge.

Exhibit A of why CEOs get paid way too much. He made $22 million in 2022. A CEO should have at least a attic understanding of statements they make to the public. This guy cannot even handle that much.

We’ve known what HP is since the 90s, if you still own a HP product it’s kind of on you now.

Jfc, what a fucking arrogant asshole. An asshole asshole for saying it, arrogant because he thinks anyone will believe it

Also: brothers at least only blocks the third party inks from working.

Do they think this kind of shit happens in a bubble!? That people who know better don’t read the news?? Any time I can, I order Lexmark, Epson, and Brother printers/faxes, as well as Dell and Lenovo PCs/laptops/servers/peripherals to replace anything HP.

Seriously, HP printers are so bad, they’ve soured me on the whole company, despite not having personality owned one in the past decade. These kinds of predatory, dishonest, anti-consumer practices from the top down is the sign of a company I want no part of.