Comment on Dear Brother Printers: Eat a bag of dicks!

• tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I bought a new Brother laser printer in 2021 and it has no problem with third party toners.

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  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I actually had a little bit of a panic attack because I just bought a shit tonne of toner for my Brother and I was afraid I might get locked out of it, but I just bought this printer last year and it’s not giving me any hassle with third party toner.

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    • infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I would still turn off auto updates.

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      • seathru@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I would never let a printer be connected to the outside internet unless there was a specific remote printing option I needed that couldn’t be done over remote desktop.

        I love my Brother, that thing has been a tank, but it’s never going to get to know the world exists out of my office.

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• infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah I linked it because it was the best one I could find that was not Reddit.

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• MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  wtf. well. I guess I’ll have to block this user just in case it’s a spam bot.

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  • paul@techy.news ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think there’s any point on spamming articles just for points since there’s no algorithm that would weight their future posts higher. Please just assume the poster had good intentions and found it interesting and wanted to share.

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    • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks for sharing an optimistic opinion. That said I still believe there’s a market for accounts that seem real for astroturfing purposes

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  • infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    changed it to a link at the bottom of the post because people were confused, I linked to the last time brother was caught doing it by “press” but all the most recent examples are on Reddit, and I wont drive clicks to Reddit.

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