• @zaph@sh.itjust.works
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    62 years ago

    I’ve singlehandedly caused hp to lose thousands of dollars. People trust my advice and I’ve lost all trust in hp so I tell people not to waste their money on it.

    • unalivejoy
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      42 years ago

      Don’t buy a smart printer. Buy a dumb printer, then plug it into a raspberry pi.

      • Zagorath
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        02 years ago

        I haven’t bought a printer recently. Wtf is a smart printer?

        • @Sylvartas@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          Most newer models that automatically make themselves available to all the devices connected to the network they are connected to, and manage the printer queue internally. Usually comes with a ton of shitty “features” e.g preventing you from printing black & white when you’re out of yellow ink.
          2-in-one scanner+printer machines are especially heinous with this, most of the ones I’ve used block you from scanning a document if you’re out of any ink (yes, even when you’re only trying to scan and not use the “copy” mode)

          Somehow they found a way to make me miss having to boot the “printer PC” and wrangling windows’ god awful printer queue system.