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'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al...::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its printers when fitted with a third-party ink cartridge. Now the company's CEO,

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[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago

At least they are honest, kinda.

[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

I haven't bought an HP printer in at least 25 years. They used to repeatedly just print jibberish on a few lines and move on to the next page and wouldn't stop until I killed the print job. Canon laser printers are great and you dont need to worry about magenta drying up and preventing you from printing in black and white.

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 3 points 11 months ago

That CEO doesn't even make top 1000 for worst person, that's just naïve to think he ranks up there with Warlords, Dictators, Winnie the Pooh, and the Sackler Family.

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[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Well at least HP is being honest about it, so I know to never do business with them.

I bet Epson will be next. AUGH

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