Can’t wait for either open source community, or the pirate community, for starting to jailbreak HP printers. To be honest, if I was more savvy with tech, I’d probably start taking that as a fun little challenging hobby.
There printers more than 2 decades now. There’s no printers jailbreak trend whatsoever. What makes you think it can happen in the future?
Printers are almost useless these days. I mean who uses a printers today anyway? Everywhere and everyone, including government accepting mail today. If I need to print something which happens once a year at best I either go to a photo store or print at work
Depends even then lol. You can have 1st world infrastructure and (considered) 4th world class government.
Just look at Germany. If something is remote doable, you probably at best can only do it via FAX. There is an incentive to improve it but yeaaaah…
Just recently the extra3 show in german TV (current topics presented in a cabaret, comedic and/or satirical way) showed a guy that emigrated to Australia for some time (at least not a full transition). His wallet was stolen with his german drivers license inside. He asked the german embassy in Australia if they could create a new license for him there.
No dice, can’t do here (not like they could print one in Germany and mail it there with air mail or so).
He tried it with Germany: Nope. Only in person (+ a fee for creating this mandatory piece of plastic).
He asked again the local embassy just in case: Nope. But you could travel back and come again for a (in total) 30h flight time + 5000€ in flying to get one :)
The conclusion was: Commercial license (no public driving in a personal car. Only for business) and for a private license he has to travel back and forth.
The open source community would tell you to get an ancient LaserJet 4 (or, more likely at this point, a Brother printer) instead.
Aside from that, there’s a worrying increasing trend in the amount of stuff that ought to be getting jailbroken, but isn’t for some reason. Smart TVs, for example. I think that the community of people with the skills and willingness to do that sort of thing is too small, and is getting spread too thin to keep up with the fire hose of Tivoized products coming out these days.
If you want a solution for this nonsense, call your congressman and ask for consumer protection legislation, 'cause I don’t think the hackers are going to be able to save us from the prevailing trend of the entire consumer electronics industry.
Their hardware is mostly brilliant but the software (drivers, DRM) should make it a stop-sale for most people. It is such a shame that what used to be an incredible engineering company has turned to such shit because of executive incompetence and greed.
I’m so glad my old HP printer still works. It has none of that bs and I can use MUCH MUCH cheaper refills, which are somehow even filled more than HP’s xl ink cartridges? I want HP to know that I will continue using this printer and they won’t ever see another cent of mine.
Research based education standards are light-years away from what we choose to do, because what we choose to do is based on 19th century attempts to industrialize. Meaning getting kids used to being away from extended family, stuck in a seat for hours, rote memorization, and regurgitation of whatever you’re told.
School never taught me how to actually live and function in society.
Guess what? I ended up poor and going to jail. Guess what? It was the same thing as school only depressed adults, more desperate. Many of the people were kind and just. Good people. They were just institutionalized and thats really sad, on a personal level for me. The way that they carry themselves was heartbreaking to me. I’m very privileged to even sit here and have a good conversation with you.
For every decision they take they always consult the Big Encyclopedia of Dark Patterns and Asshole Design™ to maximize the damage to the user
Probably they noticed that a virtual gift card will get used very soon (example give the money for a trip to someone else) so they are going to charge extra for the “convenience” while the physical because arrives weeks later via snail mail gets forgotten and they can keep the unused credit at expiration.
“Welcome to Ryanair! As a forward thinking company, we have added a hoop for you to jump through for your convenience! Only £5 per jump! …Oh, no, the only way to board the plane is to use the hoop. But for an additional fee, we will extinguish the fire before you jump!”
Apparently if you try to use the USB port it’ll stop after having printed 20 or so pages, telling you you need to setup WiFi and install their bloatware app.
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