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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... (www.pcgamer.com)
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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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[–] joel_feila 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have printer in my house, that has about 3 years of dust on it. It is not hooked up to my home wifi and I don't even know if it can work. Last Year I only need to print some thing twice. So I just drove down to the fedex kinkos and printed there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Check out your local library as well. Mine lets you print 2 pages for free each time you go in, and it's super cheap to print more.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I was about to say. My library charges like 20 cents/page or something. Plus they take credit card if you prepay online.