smylie

you can let it on the network, just block it from leaving the network. Lets you have the remote control features but without the risk.

fwiw, I have a brother laser printers with chipped cartridges.

It's a 20 second job to remove the chip from the original and insert into the new cartridge. Completely agree it's not something that you should need to do, but at least it's an issue you can work around with a bread knife

What was the service?

If practical I generally prefer something physical over a software solution.

Back in the less precision engineered days I used a cover - but since about 2015 I've been using a bit of blue masking tape. Works fine and in 7 years I've never had issues with adhesive residue

I don't think you can argue with this subset of americans on this. I tried when this came up on hacker news last week, and they were adamant this was worse that going into a hotel, and that australians citizens were sleep walking into a totalitarian state for allowing this to happen. (And also that they only had second amendment rights like the USA this would never be allowed to happen).

It was a bit of a wake up call actually - the level of conversation was starting to feel more like reddit than what I'd always (until now i guess) expected from hacker news.