Current Events > Subscribe to HP so that you can print to your printer.

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HP is trash and has been for several years.

The future is here and I hate it.

I swear, the HP printer scam is the next consumer topic that the EU should take care off.

Yeah it's BS. I tossed a few at work because of that.

The fuck is this shit, I thought it was bad enough when they started making ink cartridges that had to be replaced if you accidentally didnt print anything for two weeks.

Alteres posted...

The fuck is this shit, I thought it was bad enough when they started making ink cartridges that had to be replaced if you accidentally didnt print anything for two weeks.

Is this a real thing? I use my home printer like once every 6 months lol

My wife is a subscriber. She explained it, i ultimately wtf & went on with my build

As bullshit as this is and as much as I hate these scummy subscription-everything moves, I did this literally like 10 years ago with my printer because I was sick of paying like $50 for printer ink or whatever it was costing. I think at that time the subscription was based on actual ink/paper used. I did the numbers and it worked out way cheaper.

It was already scummy that printer ink is so expensive and you have to buy the trademark brand in many cases.

This is insane! Glad I dont need to print stuff from home anymore.

I've been avoiding buying a printer because I don't feel like dealing with the bullshit surrounding printer ink cartridges. I'll likely eventually get one, but it's gonna be a laser printer.

HP is still in business lol???

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Office Space, was a 1999 satirical comedy film based on the dark wish fulfillment of three miserable workers in a typical dreary software company of the 1990s, written and directed by Mike Judge.
When the characters find out they are on the list to be laid off, they plot revenge -- a plan to rob their company of a fraction of a cent on every transaction (exactly the same plan as in Superman II). It all goes wrong, of course, but before then, one of the most memorable scenes in cinematic history unfolds when they steal the hated printer that never worked right and drove everybody crazy. They carry it into a deserted field and beat it to pieces with sledgehammers and baseball bats in a symbolic gang hit of the printer, which stands for everything bad about about their jobs.
That sort of hands-on rage against the machine, which started way back in 2016, has grown into an entire industry, The Washington Post reported. From coast-to-coast, all across America, customers can pay from a few dozen bucks to hundreds of dollars to go into smash rooms and lay waste to dishes, chairs, and yes, printers, according to the Post.
But it turns out its not such a good idea to smash up printers. The metals, gases and batteries emit noxious fumes that can damage the human body. Some municipalities have banned the wanton destruction of various electronics, The Post reported.
And Psychology Today reported as early as 2017, trying to release stress and anger by smashing stuff may release toxic thoughts as well as toxic gases. It can establish a positive relationship between aggression as an outlet for anger. Rather than release anger, violence reinforces it.
Research led by psychologist Kinga Szymaniak of the University of New South Wales indicated that there is a direct correlation between anger and individuals who believe in conspiracy theories.
Why? Another study found that people who are angry tend to have generally positive attitudes toward anger, said Psychology Today in June 2023.
The businesses that offer rage rooms are trying to come up with viable substitutes to pulverize instead of electronics -- although thats what most people with a hammer in their hands seem to prefer. The California Department of Toxic Substances Control said that rage rooms are not illegal, but smashing e-waste is, the Post reported.
Smash-room managers can lessen the personal risk to themselves and customers by removing motherboards and batteries before the smashing begins, or by asking consumers to avoid smashing the recyclable chunks of cars or computers.
Larry Franklin, co-owner of Lose It Rage Room in Woodbridge, Va., told the Post his company always strips electronics of their motherboards, batteries and other hazardous parts before releasing them for demolition. He said he doesnt know of any such rules in his area, but he said if any are ever enacted he believes his company will be in compliance.
He also believes customers can enjoy smashing other things besides electronics.
It doesnt really matter as long as they have something to go at, Franklin said to the Post They want to yell, scream and cry. Thats pretty much the gist of it.
But the bigger problem, Waterhouse said, is that electronics companies purposely design products that break or fall out of fashion. Then those products pile up in landfills or smash rooms.
We need a new model for reusing or refurbishing our end-of-life printers, Waterhouse said. And if that happens, we also might need a new target for our aggression.

Not allowed to say what I feel is appropriate here

lilORANG posted...

Is this a real thing? I use my home printer like once every 6 months lol

With my hp one, the cartridges are fucked more often then not, you can try cleaning them with rubbing alcohol or another solvent, but most of the time they still dont print right.

They're doing this for toner too. Which doesn't make sense considering how reliable toner usually is.

Even HP's pitch for instant ink is shit. Nobody cares about convenience if there's an artificial limitation preventing me from printing a page at any given moment.

Everything works but I forgot to pay my pages for the month? Tough shit, I guess.

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Hmm, I have an HP but it's older and a laser printer. I hope they don't pull this shit.

Switched to Brother years ago and I doubt Ill use anything else ever again.

Just use a regular ink cartridge. Problem solved. Screw Instant Ink.

HashtagSEP posted...

Just use a regular ink cartridge.

No, buy sketchy 3rd-party cartidges. They have an expire date of sometime in december 3000, and cost half the price or less.

Or, just get a laser printer. Far less fuckery goes on there.

If you don't need color, a laser printer is cheaper and higher quality. Even more so if you don't print that often.

Yeah, got a "tech support" call from my parents once because they couldn't print and even though they read that, I still had to tell them it was because they didn't renew their subscription (think they got a new card or something and didn't update it). All because they "need" a fax machine that they've used like 3 times a year when it could just probably be scanned and emailed.

Laser is still unreasonably expensive for color. But you never need to worry about whether your print will come out decently after not using the printer for weeks.

At least casual flatbed scanning is becoming obsolete compared to phone camera scanning. Don't need to buy multifunction anymore.

Starks posted...

Laser is still unreasonably expensive for color. But you never need to worry about whether your print will come out decently after not using the printer for weeks.

At least casual flatbed scanning is becoming obsolete compared to phone camera scanning. Don't need to buy multifunction anymore.

Yeah color is expensive but you really dont replace toner that often. I forget how old my laser is but so far Ive only had to buy new toner once.

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