Suit seeks injunction blocking HP from bricking printers using third-party ink.
  • 4dpuzzle@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    Don’t ever buy HP printers. Their customer abuse is getting egregious by the day. Though, I wish there was more competition in the printer market.

    • luciole@beehaw.org
      4·
      6 months ago

      I’ve had a fine experience with a Brother black and white laser printer. Just a big ugly gray block that prints my documents and my shipping labels fine. It doesn’t die regularly like those cursed HP contraptions. The cartridge goes on forever and it doesn’t blotch, wretch, coagulate or whatever the fuck inkjet cartridges do whenever you let them be for a month. I don’t miss the colors. Apparently it’s not good to print photos lol.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
    3·
    6 months ago

    There’s a reason their printers are always the cheapest in the store, don’t fall for it, go for ANYTHING else.

  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
    3·
    6 months ago

    HP has been doing this shit for ages in other spaces. When I tried to put a non-HP burner in one of their desktop computers years ago, the burner spun out of control and refused to open. Same thing happened again when I got a replacement burner. When I finally got a HP burner, it worked fine.

    The same tower also refused to acknowledge an aftermarket GPU, despite changing the jumpers like guides suggested.

    Don’t buy anything HP. Don’t support them at all.

    • MagicShel@programming.dev
      4·
      6 months ago

      Look, I fucking hate HP so don’t take this as supporting them in any way, but I don’t think what you’re describing is possible. The tower is nothing more than a bunch of mounting points to attach hardware made by other manufacturers. They don’t make motherboards or chips. They could maybe have a deal for a custom branded bios maybe with certain settings locked down. They could have some shitware installed in windows, but none of that would have an impact before windows loaded.

      I just don’t see how what you’re describing is possible even if they wanted to. It would be a major scandal and everyone would’ve heard about it. Remember the Sony rootkit CDs?

      • Dave.@aussie.zone
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        6 months ago

        HP and/or Compaq used to make their own PCs in the 90’s going into the 2000’s.

        For example they used to have special motherboards that were basically backplanes and CPU cards to suit.It’s quite possible they did dumb shit with IDE connectors/pinouts that meant that some devices didn’t work.

        It wouldn’t have been a major scandal, it just would have been, “yeah some aftermarket drives don’t work with HP”, which was pretty common across the entire market back then. We’re basically in the golden age of system compatibility right now, things were an absolute shitshow back then.