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Resistance is futile

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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MacNCheezus@lemmy.today⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Louis Rossmann is correct: there is no reason to let your printer connect to the internet. They’re never going to release an update that makes the printer insanely better or more efficient. It might improve the program & functionality, just slightly? But every time it connects there is a very real possibility they push an update on your purchased goods to fuck you over. It’s not worth it.

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    • _____@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I totally get it and agree, but does this mean you use an USB cable at all times to print things ?

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      • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Either USB connected to one PC which shares it, or just block it’s Internet access in the router firewall

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      • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Connecting to the network does not have to mean connecting to the internet. Basically every consumer grade router out there is capable of restricting a device to the local network only. It could reach other devices on the network and the other devices would be able to reach it, but it would still be cut off from the internet.

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    • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Its why I put all of mine including the ones at work in the blocked ACL.

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    • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      People connect their printers to the internet?

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  • programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Never let your printer connect to the internet

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve seen newer printers that won’t work without a cloud connection.

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    • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Controversial, but same with your television.

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      • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I wouldn’t say that’s controversial, but it’s really just a matter of choosing which platform you think will enshittify slowest.

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        you guys have anything other than TV over IP?

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  • hedge_lord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is my firm belief that any ethical culture should have a legally mandated “no, fuck off” button. You can keep the “no, thanks” or “maybe later” buttons but the “no, fuck off” button must be displayed prominently alongside them.

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    • bigFab@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hedgelord for president!

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  • POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m sp glad to be paperless. Printers are a joke.

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thankfully I learned this lesson early in life and I haven’t owned in printer in nearly 20 years.

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    • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My wife INSISTS we have a printer, in case she ever wants to print anything. She never does. It has a scanner. Admittedly, a very nice one. I use the scanner every year at tax time. I suggested we get another smaller, lighter scanner. She says we don’t need two scanners. So, for the last 5 years, I have had to lug this 25.7lb behemoth out of the basement to scan like, 6 things, and take it back downstairs. That is all we use it for.

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  • StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s why all I have is an old black and white brother printer, because you can’t even trust them anymore

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    • FourWaveforms@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I specifically excluded Brother from my last printer search because I read they were getting precious about toner cartridges. HP was totally in on that as well with ink jet.

      I was able to get a laser printer from HP that didn’t have enshittified firmware, and that thing is never ever going to be on the network. This was a few years ago. I hope HP is sensitive to their business customers, who would be a large fraction of laser printer buyers. But I don’t know how they are these days.

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Forced updates should be illegal.

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    • Probius@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Malware’s definition:

      Malicious computer software that interferes with normal computer functions or sends personal data about the user to unauthorized parties over the Internet.

      Any forced update that increases data collection without consent or intentionally breaks previous functionality being pushed out to millions of people should result in multi-decade prison sentences for cybercrimes.

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      • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        100% yet nobody arrested CEOs of neither Samsung nor Apple despite them deliberately applied “updates” to slow down their phones.

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m glad to see the meme creator was smart enough to keep their Printer Gun handy!

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I understood that reference.

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  • hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s not how you deal with a printer. This is:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But how are you going to produce your TPS reports after this?

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  • Luccus@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It puts the update on its skin.

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or else it gets blank pages again.

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  • CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I use Linux. Can someone explain this meme to me?

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You wouldn’t get it. Just like viruses, DRM, or a girlfriend.

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      • Enzy@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Can I have your windows girlfriend

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  • Copythis@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I work on copiers for a living.

    You guys are scaring me!

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Username checks out.

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s actually two Epson printers currently dumped on the hard waste strip on my walk to the tram stop.

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  • bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I like my Epson perfection scanner, it let’s me scan my photographic film. That’s kinda the opposite of a printer though.

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