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Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals

btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

My general rule of thumb is that any software update has a 50% chance of making the software worse. So I don’t update anything without a good reason. That includes not just device updates but things like phone apps.

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photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Keeping up-to-date with security updates is incredibly important.

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- JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Every CVE I flip a coin.
  
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  - Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Makes life more exciting.
    
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- daddy32@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  But not so much for the printers…
  
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  - LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Printer botnet boes brr.
    
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    GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Printers always go brr.
    
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- knexcar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’ve never had an issue with viruses, I’m not a big company nor do I download sketchy files. I feel like if there’s something serious enough to affect me (like the iPhone Unicode character exploit), I’d hear about it.
  
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  - photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You’ll never have an issue until you do. Not to mention all the issues you don’t know about.
    
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commander@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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areyouevenreal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah this is terrible from a security and usability point of view. Just stop using proprietary bs systems. Why do you think so many technical people use Linux and avoid IoT devices like the plague? So we don’t have to deal with companies doing stuff we don’t like without a choice.

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