HP printer USB port covered with warning sticker in hopes you won't use it | Boing Boing

HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …

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HP covers printer's USB port with warning sticker to make sure you don't go right ahead and use it | Boing Boing

HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …

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Never buying HP printers again, not after I got a Brother one last year. It works OOTB even with linux and there’s no such lockdown bullshit.
You would never know it from the brand name, but Brother is a Japanese company, and the Japanese are known for making elegant, well made, and easy to use stuff. Konica Minolta is also Japanese and makes pretty good stuff, but for a basic printer I prefer Brother. And don’t bother with inkjet, get a Brother all in one laser printer, and you’ll have a very reliable machine that isn’t expensive to operate. The ink won’t dry up if you don’t use it, and the drivers aren’t constantly trying to sell you anything.
Canon is Japanese too, can’t say the same about their fairly recent practices
Canon hit with $5M class-action suit over printer-ink complaint

A customer in Queens, New York, filed a class-action complaint against Canon, which centered on the scanning function of its All-in-One printers.

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