HP are such scammers

I posted about this very cheap printer before, which strongly suggests that there is No USB, only Wifi. When I first got it I figured out how to print over the network without using the app they try to bully you into downloading.

It turns out it's even easier to print, just use the USB port they try to pretend isn't there!

No company is going to rewrite their firmware to remove the USB stack. It's even more expensive to redesign the hardware to get rid of the USB port physically. They opted for the cheapest option, a little sticker.

They are just trying to store everyone's documents in their stupid cloud service that some teenage extortion group is going to break into and leak one day. Don't give them your data.

@netspooky my current printer is a HP laserjet 1011 that I hastily bought a year ago on local classifieds, becauase I had to print something for the next day. I paid $20 and I met the guy at 10pm that day. It still works. The drivers suck but the consumables for that model are the cheapest on the market. I'm not getting any HP wifi connected printer ever. Considering making a network print server, but I cant find linux drivers for it...
@gorplop @netspooky similar, except I bought it new, around 2004. My Pi Zero says I'm using the hpcups driver.