Never let your printer connect to the internet
Resistance is futile
Submitted 2 months ago by MacNCheezus@lemmy.today to [deleted]
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programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I’ve seen newer printers that won’t work without a cloud connection.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Controversial, but same with your television.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I wouldn’t say that’s controversial, but it’s really just a matter of choosing which platform you think will enshittify slowest.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
you guys have anything other than TV over IP?
POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I’m sp glad to be paperless. Printers are a joke.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Thankfully I learned this lesson early in life and I haven’t owned in printer in nearly 20 years.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
hedge_lord@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
bigFab@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hedgelord for president!
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That’s why all I have is an old black and white brother printer, because you can’t even trust them anymore
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 2 months 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.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Forced updates should be illegal.
Probius@sopuli.xyz 2 months 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.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 months ago
100% yet nobody arrested CEOs of neither Samsung nor Apple despite them deliberately applied “updates” to slow down their phones.
Zink@programming.dev 2 months ago
I’m glad to see the meme creator was smart enough to keep their Printer Gun handy!
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 months ago
hOrni@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s not how you deal with a printer. This is:
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 months ago
But how are you going to produce your TPS reports after this?
Luccus@feddit.org 2 months ago
It puts the update on its skin.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Or else it gets blank pages again.
CannedYeet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I use Linux. Can someone explain this meme to me?
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 months ago
You wouldn’t get it. Just like viruses, DRM, or a girlfriend.
Copythis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I work on copiers for a living.
You guys are scaring me!
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 months ago
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 months ago
There’s actually two Epson printers currently dumped on the hard waste strip on my walk to the tram stop.
bilb@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I like my Epson perfection scanner, it let’s me scan my photographic film. That’s kinda the opposite of a printer though.
CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 2 months 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.
_____@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I totally get it and agree, but does this mean you use an USB cable at all times to print things ?
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Either USB connected to one PC which shares it, or just block it’s Internet access in the router firewall
herrvogel@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Its why I put all of mine including the ones at work in the blocked ACL.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 months ago
People connect their printers to the internet?