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| BrianHG:
--- Quote from: duckduck on October 27, 2021, 02:42:24 am --- --- Quote from: jonovid on October 21, 2021, 06:06:47 pm ---Canon DISABLES scanner when ink runs out. Who owns this scanner this video deserves more interest. :o when independent functional systems stop working just because one part is out of ink. so international corporations can sell more ink. just knowing that this is happening is troubling IMO this is a new twist printer ink refill scam. now just imagine if your Internet of things shutdown in sympathy, for your printer? or its it their printer! or your operating system had sympathy for the printer been out of ink, so stopped working! >:D were will this type of BS end? --- End quote --- Yes, that is BS. I bought an HP inkjet for light home use. It actually stopped working because I refused to connect it to the internet. I returned it. I refuse to buy anything else HP (that isn't test equipment ;-P ). --- End quote --- Are you bloody kidding me, I wouldn't even buy any modern HP test equipment. I would make an exception for vintage HP test equipment. You know, the type which has no download-able firmware. |
| T3sl4co1l:
Fortunately modern-HP makes no test equipment, so you're safe. It's a shitty computer and peripherals brand. Not in the sense of "second rate", but shitty in tactics, you know, *gestures vaguely at the thread*. Tim |
| tszaboo:
--- Quote from: duckduck on October 27, 2021, 02:42:24 am ---Yes, that is BS. I bought an HP inkjet for light home use. It actually stopped working because I refused to connect it to the internet. I returned it. I refuse to buy anything else HP (that isn't test equipment ;-P ). --- End quote --- Wow are you kidding me? So printer only works if you connect it to some webs service? I wonder if there is a "big red button" at HP which makes your ink levels low, because some sales target weren't met. |
| T3sl4co1l:
Nah, none so arbitrary. They merely pre-underfill the cartridges for you, so you don't keep buying new printers for refills. Tim |
| cybermaus:
--- Quote from: T3sl4co1l on October 27, 2021, 02:06:30 pm ---Nah, none so arbitrary. They merely pre-underfill the cartridges for you, so you don't keep buying new printers for refills. Tim --- End quote --- Not even needed. Just clean your head. Watch this (I put it on the relevant starting time) Seriously, this is shocking, even if you know all of the stuff in this thread https://youtu.be/DkuAg46-f7c?t=58 |
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