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chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I would still turn off auto updates.

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- seathru@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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  - fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Does it have a USB port? Use that instead of the network interface.
    
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    LienNoir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    U can deny internet acces from your modem settings, it will still be connected on your home network. The best of both worlds
    
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    jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I would assume that most people have more than one device at home from which they’d like to print like a smartphone or tablet in addition to their laptop.
    
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    seathru@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah, luckily mine still has both, it’s an older model I found as new old stock. The one it replaced was network only, and I had to have a long talk with the router about never letting it play outside.
    
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