You're not paying for ink cartridges silly, you're paying for how much you print!
It all makes sense: if you stop paying for the service, you stop receiving the service, duh!
It's not illegal so it's crazy that people think they're this evil corporation!
Most of these shitty printer companies have been trying to do this for awhile. They have been selling printers for dirt cheap to lock people into overpriced ink cartridges that run out way too fast. This is why it's worth buying a printer that isn't garbage and has a lot of non-oem ink cartridge alternatives
I worked at a Staples when I was young and would tell people it was probably more cost efficient to throw out their $25 printers when they ran out of ink and buy a new one.
Yeah my father was and old school programmer and suffered making printer drivers for Canon so I learned all about the grift. They love peddling this garbage to people who are just trying to buy printers for like their kids going to college and whatnot
I've got a new startup called Sockscription. When you sign up for our service, we mail you a set of socks that you wear, then we monitor the quality of your socks and send you new pairs when your old ones have degraded to a certain level. It's so much more efficient than the old way of getting socks! Also if you cancel your subscription while wearing our socks they explode and blow off your feet. See? It's so efficient 🥰
god the worst part about this is that I would sign up for it
Not to be an expert, 'cause everyone's a fucking expert
But our idea of IP is batshit out of its goddamn mind
what’s going on in their Kramer?
they’re burning the oranges Jerry
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
But our idea of IP is batshit out of its goddamn mind
It was invented by Disney and made successively more draconian every time Mickey Mouse has been about to enter public domain
Also every company I've ever worked for has had a clause in my contract saying everything I invent belongs to them
Every time I've left a company I've backed up my workspace to an external drive I named LIETAIC (i.e. Labor Is Entitled To All It Creates) cause I'm not fuckin rewriting shit I already wrote
Good shit, please don't get caught.
I can get people irl to admit that tech billionaires aren't the ones who created the tech, and can even get them to admit that creators mostly get a pittance at best as-is. Yet they still act like our IP laws are there for everyone except the parasites at the top
This article is insane. It doesn't even explain it in a convincing way. Like oh it's fine because uhhh ya know subscriptions and stuff and they totally told you about it. I mean we admit they basically didn't tell you but ya know.
Like if the service stopped monitoring your ink levels and auto sending a new one if you quit... Ok fine. Dumb service but fine. But that's not it. Fuck off HP and fuck off softpedoa.
Also
technically rendering the printer useless.
Do they have cartridges this service doesn't fuck? Because it doesn't sound like it's technically useless. It's just useless.
Fact Check: FALSE
You could still use your HP™ printer to re-enact that scene from The Office. Three pinnochios.
Laser printers all day and night.
Anything Brother makes will have generic toner carts for cheap.
Fuck inkjets.
Yeah brother is why I have at home because of the cheap cartridge alternatives. My roommates have no idea how much pain I've saved them over printing
Lmao we are returning to the age of banalities, where peasants had to pay the lord just to use the communal well.
We recently got a free printer that someone was throwing out and to buy the official ink to just make the thing work we would've needed to put out like 140 dollars for a single of each. I then proceeded to find some bootleg ones that sold for like 20 bucks instead, they work just fine for an average print of like 1 page every 2 months while not requiring intense troubleshooting every time we try to print because the last one would refuse to print straight until we printed like 4 alignment pages full of ink just so it would print without missing giant parts of the text.
I'm genuinely curious why the general public needs a printer in 2022. I can buy a thermal printer with a cat face for $15 from aliexpress, do people need more than that?
The last two times I needed my printer were a job interview in 2018 where the interviewer was adamant that I deliver my resume printed, signed, and through the mail and another time in 2021 where a doctor's office needed me to print a parking pass for some reason. Both instances were dealing with inexplicable weirdos.
That's what libraries are for imho. Why get a printer when you can use theirs for 10¢/page?
And you have to ship the ink back to them.
How can anyone end the service clean?
Fuck printers all my homies hate printers. This one's up there with the BMW seat warmers DLC
