Seriously, #HP #InstantInk combines all the worst features of #subscriptions and #ManagedServices like #ManagedPrintServices with neither benefits.

• Cuz #MPS for #businesses meant that a business gets a 5-6 digit, extremely fast, production-grade printer and only pays for the #consumeables and maybe setup & availability (similar to #utilities) and in return they don't have to worry and in case of problems call the #ServiceProvider instead.

This is how #TriumpfAdler stays in business: You can't buy their office multifunction systems, but only get them as a subscription through a #ServiceProvider.

• Now this makes sense for a copy/fax/print/scan monster that needs to be forklifted and can spit out triple-digit pages per minute: Not every business is willing or able to sink 5+ digits into that, and instead is happy to pay like 9-19¢ per page + a monthly base fee for that, because #accounting hates having to 'depreciate an asset / investment'.

But for #consumer devices like an #Inkjet #Printer, this is just shafting them when instead of being a convenience (like getting #ink mailed) it's leveraged as a means to prevent the #buyer from being an #owner.

• It's like if a #CreditCard provider used for paying for #fuel prevents car owners from refueling a car if they want to buy gasoline (or diesel or whatever) from a different gas station that their service isn't covering.

It's not as if #HPinstantInk means one gets a "#free" Printer / (or even #MultifunctionPrinter) in return like a "full service #leasing" with #cars, but rather it feels as if a car manufacturer can just decide to repo your car the moment you don't extend your "Extended Warranty Service" for another year...

• Personally, I think #InkjetPrinters should be #outlawed and instead people should just get a used #Laser / #LED printer instead.

The rampant #Enshittification is why I'd love to see a reguar "#2Dprinter" to be #OpenSource'd!

• Seriously, #3Dprinting is way harder and at least #Inkjet designs should be in the cards!

#YouWillOwnNothingAndYouWillBeHappy #YouWillOwnNothing #YouOwnNothing #LateStageCapitalism #Greedflation #greed #Inflation

She is very close to the goal.

#Fundraiser by a daughter whose #dad, a landscaper and US Citizen, is the sole provider for her family. He was attacked and taken by ICE on Nov. 7 by thugs working for Kristi Noem, that plastic-surgery faced tragedy #outlawed from Dakota territory back in 2020.

#indigenous

https://gofund.me/632372220

If you think #ALPR's are a problem then I have bad news for you.

• Modern #FacialRecognition and #Govware like #Palantir's "#Gotham" literally matches you in realtime and can track which vehicles you enter, where and when.

• #Flock and #ring are just "data providers" to be used, like any #DataBrokers, because the #USA doesn't have #privacy encoded as a #civilRight, much less a #HumanRight!

#MassSurveillance needs to be #outlawed - period!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWj26RIlN_I

Shite like this is flatout #racist and should be #outlawed worldwide!

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

• Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

Link: https://archive.ph/el4IE

#AbolishICE #FuckFBI #Facism #Racism #Amerikkka #USpol #ICE #FBI #DNA #Database #DataHoarding #Consent #Crime

Seriously, stuff like this should be #outlawed and we need actual #ConsumerProtection and #regulation that classifies #PetCare and #PetToys with the same protections as #Toddler #toys.

Because cats being killed by an "automatic #LitterBox" is just the most horrific and inexcuseable product fault there could be.