Legislation is Way overdue for this nonsense. My home security cameras are all being disabled and unable to record videos as they have for years because the company (fuck you Arlo) has decided they want users to just suddenly start paying subscription fees. If we let them every company will eventually move to this model. Even staunch capitalists need to recognize that this is an issue begging for legislation. Stop this insanity.
Thats absolutely outrageous. Thats a brand I’ll never be purchasing.
Legislation is the only way to reign it in, of course they’d scream “but prices would go up!”. I’d rather pay a few bucks more up front to not pay 10x as much in ink later. The whole subscription model is awful too. They are turning our whole lives into rentals.
I’m sure if they did legislate it they’d do everything they could to try to work around it.
Sure it’s cat and mouse, but the mouse doesn’t do well if it just let’s the cat bat it around the room.
My home camera was exactly what prompt me to learn how to reflash IoT devices, and set up a Home Assistant network that’s entierly self-hosted. It’s way easier than I though.
Want to drop some links for where to get started? I only sort of understand what you just said but I like the idea of my own network and it being easier than it seems!
That’s why I never cry for Adobe when they get pirated.
For anyone in the market for a printer: brother.
Got an epson with an ecotank and quite happy with it.
My last three printers have been Brother and they have been great. They do still have chipped toner cartridges but I haven’t had any trouble with 3rd party toner. They also work fantastic on Linux.
The answer is simple, stop buying new printers that do this, keep your old one or buy a used one. Hurt them in their profits.
I agree with you, but have you owned a consumer printer? They break so freaking fast. When I had them, I don’t think I’ve ever had a printer last more than 3 years. Granted I haven’t owned a printer in 15 years, but prior to that I swear we had to replace those damn things like clock work every couple of years for some stupid reason.
I would but the fucking things break and can’t be fixed
I read this so often that this is the solution and I hate it. This is definitely not the answer. The majority of people just see a cheap printer and buy it without being informed about the long term costs. If you just stop buying without speaking up, they still get tons of sales of the uninformed and will keep trying to find other ways to get the most money out of them.
Ink jet printers really are the embodiment of peak capitalism.
I can’t wait until a company like Apple creates their own printers and somehow makes it worse.
Uh… they did make printers, starting in the 80s some were pretty decent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_printers
I didn’t know this. But Apple is a different company than they were in the 80’s and i feel that it would still be bad today.
Edit: or the 90’s when they made their last models according to that article.
Who the hell still scans documents with a multifunction printer. There are multiple apps on your phone that do that a lot better!
A phone app may be convenient but it’s nowhere near the quality of a true scanner
On top of what everyone else said, if you’re scanning something like a book, holding it upside-down on a scanner bed and pressing it flat will give you a much better scan than holding it open with your hand right-side up so you can get a phone photo of it.
How the hell do you know what apps are on my phone?
