• penquin@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        That’s the first one that came to mind. They started every shitty trend in the industry

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          6 months ago

          I feel like printers started it. Everyone I had used to setup came with some insane cable. Not to mention the actual cartridge

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          6 months ago

          It’s the legacy that stinky piece of shit Steve Jobs left behind. That, skirting foreign labor laws, treating your own child like shit and stabbing your friends in the back.

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        6 months ago

        Agreed. But other companies like Samsung and Google that dunked on Apple for their shitty practices, then completely adopt them a few generations later are fucking pathetic.

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      6 months ago

      I bought a brother printer model J1010DW because it’s brother, right? Also it was the cheapest brother printer in stock locally around the time I was sick & tired of detouring to the print shop.

      The color cartridges still have tons of ink swashing in them, but the printer won’t even print in b&w because it detects the other cartridges as empty. So I try the tape-over-the-ink-window method, and my printer says, HMM, I GUESS THERE’S INK NOW, BUT THESE MUST NOT BE BROTHER PRINTER CARTRIDGES, HURR DURR, and makes itself an overweight scanner.

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        6 months ago

        I have a canon printer that I buy from Walmart (yes, I said buy, not bought). Every time the ink runs out, I’d go buy a whole printer. Printer is $27 and the ink is $35. I don’t really print much, so whatever little print they give with the new printer lasts me for a long time. I’m thinking of just buying a laser one and call it a day since it never dries and it prints up 1500 papers per cartridge.