beyondthegrave

@beyondthegrave@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But buying a second printer would make my current 2yr investment a waste so savings would be a wash.

  Also I do need color sometimes making the HP the better value until they start charging more for color.

  Definitely will consider it when this printer dies though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I choose to use Instant Ink because I don’t print a lot and it still beats buying the carts. HP ships them to be for free and automatically before I run out and gives me return postage for the empties to be recycled.

  They also don’t have different rates for B/W and Color so I just print everything in color.

  I dont stress over $1/mo (or $1.50/mo if this increase hits me). I’ve had this printer for 2yrs on the cheapest plan and I’ve still not paid the full price of a set of cartridges.

  I’m sure I’ll be down votes for saying anything positive about the program but whatever. It works fine for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course they disable the cartridge. You’re paying for ink on a subscription. If you didn’t pay for cart in full, why should you be able to use the rest of it? That’s literally what you signed up for. Otherwise everyone would get a full cartridge for $1.

  If you don’t want to do ink-cart-layaway, don’t sign up and buy the cartridge.

  Disabling mid-month is a scam though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think Newpipe is available on GoogleTV, but I could be wrong. You can log into your Google account with SmartTube so it functions more like YouTube with adding to your watch history, keeping you subs synced, and getting recommendations in the GoogleTV UI on top of having sponsorblock. It’s more like Vanced than Newpipe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Great! So I can’t use a hitbox on street fighter or my choice of racing/flight sim rig in games that aren’t first person shooters because of a problem that affects a genre I’m not even playing.

  What a great solution that’s now far-reaching, extremely heavy handed, and has a great potential for Microsoft to milk customers and small businesses alike!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of devices are just adapters to allow you to play fighting, racing sim, flight sim, rhythm games with controllers from other platforms because these niche genres are even smaller on Xbox and go completely ignored by large accessories companies.

  That’s not going to change once these devices are blocked. It’s a very heavy handed (and potentially lucrative) approach to stopping FPS cheaters.

  They were making strides with the FGC getting SF6 and adding Guilty Gear Strive to Gamepass and then do this. Makes no sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Than 80 Percent Of Americans Can’t Afford New Cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree with anything you’re saying, but I’m talking about new cars. Outside of profiting off of EV rebates as someone else mentioned, I don’t know of anyone buying new cars to flip. Which is why talking to people about immediate depreciation seems silly to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Than 80 Percent Of Americans Can’t Afford New Cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I also don’t understand the whole “it depreciates in value” angle. Yes, everything I buy new depreciates in value once it is no longer new. I’m not buying a car to immediately sell it. So who cares?

  Are there people out there flipping cars like they do with houses? Maybe tell those people.

  I bought my car new and people told me the same thing. I’m still driving it 13yrs later and have had no major maintenance issues; only regular maintenance like oil, tire rotation, lube etc. The most expensive thing I’ve put into it are new tires.

  I’ll buy my next car new again and do the same thing.