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HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly (www.ghacks.net)
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[–] PurpleTentacle 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, until the printer engineers took over from the sewing machine engineers in around 2020. Even Brother is evil now, rolling out firmware updates that render third party toner useless or do even more evil shenanigans via firmware:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131

I don't think there's a good brand left these days, Brother was the last bastion of "not shitty" and now they, too, were enshittified.