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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by kuschku on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @07:58AM (#34692128)
Personally, I'd recommend just nuking HP from orbit until it's gone.

Printers, and their manufacturers sucks, and HP is the worst of the bunch. No one should ever even try to defend them, there is nothing defensible about them.

Especially considering you can now buy printers that only ever work with instant ink and reject all other cartridges.

(Btw, I'm using a modded brother printer)

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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by drewg123 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @08:48AM (#34692651)
I'm all for that, but only if we can also nuke all HP Printers crowding the 5GHz spectrum with their "HP JetDirect" 5Ghz APs. My neighbor has one, and I swear that useless HP printer AP is louder than my wifi router in many parts of my house. I will never, ever buy an HP printer because of that.
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