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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by josephcsible on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @02:30AM (#34689798)
> Seems like leasing a car and complaining you're expected to return it after the lease.

If instead of giving the car back so they can resell it, you had to crush it or replace the engine oil with sodium silicate, then you'd be absolutely right to complain. Useful things should never intentionally be forced to become waste just to protect a business model.

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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by alias_neo on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @03:06AM (#34690051)
Hear hear.

All the while, we as individuals are pushed harder and harder to be more efficient, more environmentally conscious and less wasteful.

How about super markets stop selling peeled oranges in plastic packaging?

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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by staunton on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @06:33AM (#34691398)
> How about super markets stop selling peeled oranges in plastic packaging?

Wow that's actually a thing in the US... mind blown

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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by rascul on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @09:14AM (#34692988)
I only recall seeing them in cans, but plastic wouldn't surprise me.
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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by alias_neo on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @04:46AM (#34706110)
Not sure about the US, I'm in the UK, but yes, it does actually happen in some supermarkets here.
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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by 8note on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @12:57PM (#34696272)
We the voters need to make those requirements by law
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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by avianlyric on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @06:11AM (#34691275)
HP provide a free ink return and recycling service. Nobody is forcing you waste the ink, you wanna see it reused, send it back!

HP also use much larger capacity cartridges for this services. So under normal circumstances there’s less ink and fewer wasted hunks of plastic floating around. Not sure how you provide this service if signing up for one month got a years worth of ink, and no obligation to pay anymore.

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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by josephcsible on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @10:26AM (#34693997)
It's also wasteful to have to send a perfectly good cartridge back and then go pick up a new one. And if HP knows how to make better, larger capacity ink cartridges, what reason other than greed could there be to limit them to their predatory subscription program?
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