HP reached its pinnacle in 1993 with the 4L laser printer. They were practically indestructible. I bought one and it took 15 years of heavy use to kill it.
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I made the mistake of buying an HP printer. Fortunately I only spent $70 on it.
Then the ink cartridge ran out as I used all the ink up. So instead of buying more ink I purchased a new printer. This time it was a color inkjet from Brother that will last me years on the first ink cartridge.
Funny how it works. Fuck you HP.
there's not a single thing radical about wanting these fuckers out of our homes and out of our lives. Kill em all as far as I'm concerned.
HP is probably the worst big tech device company. Their products are shit, break quickly, are overpriced and econ students love them.
econ students love them.
Why?
They love printing? I guess that’s what he’s saying
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I bought an HP Envy, one of these convertible laptop thingies, when I didn't know any better. The hinge broke about a month after the warranty expired. Repair costs (at a local repair shop, but still) were like 200€ because apparently I had to buy a whole new top cover for the damn repair to work
Anyways, I'm gonna buy a Framework laptop next because fuck going through that again
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Spending too much money on bad products is good for the GDP!
can't buy a good product under capitalism
contradiction in terms
Well you can while they're building the brand and the business majors aren't running every department
Why nobody has made an open source ink jet printer design like reprap, I will never understand. The printer industry seems primed for disruption with all their bullshit and their half century old technology.
Right? Why buy a paper printer for less than $100 when you can spend $2000 on a 3D printer + materials and time spent learning and fucking up! Wish I thought of that!
The accuracy required for the ink droplets just isn't there for prosumers.
I can (and have!) built multiple extruders for a variety of 3D printers. Some of my own design.
Sadly, the tolerances for an inkjet are at least an order of magnitude greater.
I have zero doubt that a few clever hardware hackers could design an open source inkjet printer. But A: They'd get sued back to the mesolithic by every printer company with a patent. And B: the process would likely involve micro machining your own hardware.
I've just said, "fuck it" to the entire industry. I'm in my early 40s and I'm reasonably sure that my Brother laser will outlive me. And possibly the heat death of the universe.
Patents expire after, what, 20 years? I'd be happy with an open source printer based on 20 year old technology.
I'd take a tractor fed dot-matrix printer over my current one just so I could play with the paper thingies on the edges.
Probably because they wouldn't be as profitable.
HP could sell like a tenth the printers and still make more money
Hmmm we don't need to build a new printer, just new firmware. More like ddwrt or tomato
My guess. They couldn't get the printer to work. My 3D printer has a lower problem count than my ink jet regular printed at this point.
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And this is why things like pirating are not only acceptable but necessary. When companies lock services behind paywalls for products we should legally own, we are left with no recourse but to obtain the services we are owed illegally.
Agreed. Piracy, aka the sharing of information freely (see also: libraries), is a fundamentally ethically correct course of action. Always.
Withholding knowledge for personal profit on the other hand is obviously not.
I have literally filed a BBB complaint in the past for HP over their stupid ink subscription being fucky
From what I've heard the BBB is as much a BS organization as HP, companies can pay to have the complaints removed.
It's basically a business owner guild, right?
I honestly don't know enough to say, I'm just repeating what I've heard from others many times over the last decade or so.
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They are useless, as anyone who's ever tried to get redress through them knows. Don't trust their ratings.
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Planned obsolescence iceberg when