Comment on Peak technology
Vej@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The fuck?
I’m guessing they signed up for HP Instant Ink, a monthly subscription service that monitors the ink levels in the printer and automatically mails you refills.
If you buy an HP printer, they HEAVILY promote this and offer discounts/free trials. I declined, because fuck that, but I could see someone agreeing and forgetting about it.
If you buy HP, you deserve everything you get.
No. Making a mistake doesn’t mean you deserve unfair treatment.
Enshittification is Steven by consumers who stunt burner to get informed. I think everyone has a responsibility to make choices that don’t actively make society worse.
By that logic, everyone has a responsibility to educate uninformed people about enshitification. Every is uninformed until they aren’t.
No, YOU’RE Steven by consumers who stunt burner! 😛
That’s very hard to do in practice when you make a thousand little choices a day - the time spent researching everything would be astronomical.
The solutions we offer should take rational ignorance into account; shaming victims won’t make it go away. Where do your food and clothes come from?
I used HP4015s for years. I loved those things. So easy to work on. I could rip one apart in under a minute. The company just seemed to go to hell.
They make the money on the ink, not the printer. Laserlet for win
When I was in college, I would go to micro center and buy the cheapest printer there, getting the warranty for $2.99. Run out of ink? Return it as defective and get a new printer with the gift card, paying $2.99 for the warranty again. So I paid $2.99 for ink for all 4 years of college.
$10,000 per gallon
No, the printer
db2@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s a real thing. Buy Brother, brother.
audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Has Epson also gone downhill? The first one I bought lasted 11 years, so about 3 years ago I replaced it with another Epson.
Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Epson with the eco tank. It’s like 12 bucks for several years of ink and the thing just works.
GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
What ink are you getting for $12?? Even allowing for quite a bit of poetic licence, this seems ridiculously cheap.
mp3@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I threw mine from the balcony when it stopped me from scanning documents because one of the cartridges was empty.
audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I’ve never had that issue with either Epson I’ve owned. Scans just fine without ink.
stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
What I heard is that Epson is even better than Brother and the ink is even cheaper, but the printers are much more expensive and repairs are slow, so Brother is probably better for casual individual user.
OsaErisXero@kbin.run 11 months ago
For ink jet you buy Epson, for laser buy Brother
frezik@midwest.social 11 months ago
People should also consider no printer and just use a local place, like FedEx stores or a local library, for the handful of times you need to print per year. Maybe it won’t work for you, but consider how much you would dump into any printer compared to the cost per page at a shop. You’re going to be spending a lot more for the convenience of printing at home.
zaph@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’ve still been having good experiences with new Epson printers. Epson and brother good, hp needs to be sued to the stone age.
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Is Canon half-decent?
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have a cannon at home. It was super cheap and super reliable, and no possibility have an internet connection.
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Same with me. I had trouble getting that anti-pale-yellow-dot program to work with it though. Still can’t do it :(
db2@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t have any recent experience with them but they used to be. I haven’t used their laser offerings but it looks like they’re about on par with Brother from a quick Google search.
Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
We’ve had trouble with Brother products as well unfortunately
db2@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Did it include the manufacturer trying to lock everyone in to a pay-to-print racket?