Mastodawn

Battle Programmer Yuu Aug 4, 2023

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.

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Tom Forsyth Aug 4, 2023

@netspooky It's so weird that the sticker covering the USB port that claims there's no USB port *also* has the little "pull here to remove" corner tag on it.

Huge "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" energy.

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@TomF @netspooky Yes, this. This is the detail that graduates it from just regular evil/sketchy/pathetic to actually bewildering.

Like, did some regional manager "design" the sticker by dictating "Hey Siri, Tell OpenAI To Design A Sticker That Says No USB Only Wi-Fi"?

Or is there some regulation about covering ports with stickers that requires the sticker to have a pull-tab icon?