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

• 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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