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Re:HP printers try to send data back to HP about your device... by jaclaz on Monday September 16, 2019 @07:27AM (#20982995)
>"User XYZ just printed 7 pages," which would reasonably be 5kb per job

Actually (of course IMHO) that should reasonably be (including the percentage of ink covered/black and a validation hash) below 150 bytes.

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Re:HP printers try to send data back to HP about your device... by ljoshua on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:07AM (#20984121)
Sure, but let's face it, I don't think HP's top priority here is actually trying hard to make it small... :|
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Re:HP printers try to send data back to HP about your device... by jaclaz on Monday September 16, 2019 @12:31PM (#20985786)
Yep, I surely agree :), the point is only on the use of reasonably , by allowing everyone to "grow" data (both when actually needed and when it is not) shifting everytime the range of "reasonable" we have today's monsters (web sites, OS's, you name it).

And surely I am (more than a bit) old-fashioned, but when you can use the Doom as a unit of measure, JFYI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13211120

then it isn't reasonable anymore.

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