• dan1101@lemm.ee
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      For now anyway. Enshittification strikes too many products eventually.

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      I’m just now having to replace my brother printer (HL-2170W) I bought in 06, because the NIC is toast.

      The printer still works great, but duplex printing sure would be nice.

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    We have seen that you can embed viruses into cartridges, through the cartridge go to the printer, from the printer go to the network

    Hey dipshits, this is possible because you built firmware into your printer cartridges to prevent 3rd party cartridges in the first place

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    This just screams that it’s a bad investment to buy HP stock at the moment. No company will insult their potential customers if they aren’t desperate.

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    “We have seen that you can embed viruses into cartridges, through the cartridge go to the printer, from the printer go to the network, so it can create many more problems for customers.”

    If the cartidges didn’t have drm chips you wouldn’t have anything to load with malware to begin with.

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    Buying HP products is bad investment.

    I only had the chance to two of their inkjet printers and one of their office laser printers, plus an elitebook laptop. In short, all of them suck.

    Much better (to me, the best) alternatives, that I can safely say are good investments: Canon for inkjet printers, ThinkPad T and P series for laptops. Those are quality products. Unfortunately I don’t have any experience with other office laser printers, so I cannot recommend one.

    Edit: specified which series of ThankPads are still good.

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      ThinkPad is now Lenovo just FYI. They were acquired some years ago and now Lenovo makes and sells the ThinkPad line of hardware