Joshua TopolskyTrying to imagine a worse experience than setting up an HP printer but I'm failing to come up with anything
Timothy@joshuatopolsky working for Elon Musk and then being asked to print your code on … an HP printer
BRMperc@joshuatopolsky setting up a Canon through their "app"
Xerz 💗@joshuatopolsky Oh, what are you guys doing over there? Here in Linux world recent HP printers are just plug and play, and if not then HPLIP’s assistant is fairly easy to use
@joshuatopolsky (that said, I had terrible experiences with a Brother a few years ago and I’m sure I’m missing something even worse)
Alex Waddell 🏴🇪🇺@joshuatopolsky setting up an Epson inkjet printer is a very close second tbh
Josh Biggs@joshuatopolsky May I introduce you to Hunter fan’s SIMPLEconnect app.
Polycrastinator@joshuatopolsky All printers are now bad and I wonder how we got here.
marcorobotics@polycrastinator @joshuatopolsky consumers not appreciating the hardware and getting easily fooled into a cheap printer with expensive ink cartridges?
Gareth Kitchen@joshuatopolsky Setting it up on a Chromebook?
Don Whiteside@joshuatopolsky oh that’s easy, it’s trying to actually uninstall the crapware they want you to install. Close behind it is actually using rhe crapware you sometimes have to use to use the functionality if it’s a scanner or something.
Austin Putman@donw @joshuatopolsky rather than “hp smart” it should be called “hp too dumb to write a proper scanner driver”
Sekhen@joshuatopolsky
I've only worked with Xerox for the last couple of years, and they are a delight.
I've only worked with Xerox for the last couple of years, and they are a delight.
Ian Robinson@joshuatopolsky Setting up 2 HP printers!
Isaac Torres 
@joshuatopolsky if only it ran webOS
Mohaned Sayegh@joshuatopolsky setting up a Lexmark printer
Roman Luštrik@joshuatopolsky would that be linux or on windows?
Mike McGee@joshuatopolsky trying to print on a 4-year-old HP printer that (for some reason) can’t be hard reset, doesn’t see the color ink cartridge, and sometimes just fails to print. And DEFINITELY doesn’t scan.
Eduardo Ramos@joshuatopolsky maybe refilling with ink an Epson Printer
Jorge Araújo@joshuatopolsky
Give support on any printer in Windows
Give support on any printer in Windows
Pulin Kothari, MD@joshuatopolsky Yeah horrible, esp trying to get it on your Wi-Fi
@joshuatopolsky I just yesterday found out that I can’t print from my iPhone anymore without creating an HP account… :-/
@joshuatopolsky let me introduce you to the world of chatbots on customer service calls... even better if on paid numbers 😂
Kunal Anand@joshuatopolsky Setting up an HP printer for your parents because you “work in technology”
@joshuatopolsky I think this might be more enraging. https://youtu.be/1BB6wj6RyKo
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Nate Barham@joshuatopolsky OBS. And every single LMS in every school in America. 🤣
@martlund 🌲🐶🇸🇪🇨🇱🌈@joshuatopolsky After talking with HP ‘tech” support I fixed installing my HP printer by throwing it off the balcony to the cement floor. Felt so good. I worked better after that
@joshuatopolsky Setting up any printer used to be universally awful. These days I’ve gotten spoiled with AirPrint just working. The failure of those automatic systems can leave me despondent? #FirstWorldProblems
Vinĉenzo Veitía@joshuatopolsky setting up a Canon printer on Windows is like getting your eyes scotched taped and ripped off by said tape.