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

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      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.