Proton, Mozilla, Brother
Its not gonna stop there
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This shit happened to me recently. Installed firmware update and immediately my 3rd party toner stops working. Try to find old firmware to roll back to and couldn't locate it anywhere. Found some for other models via Google drive links in Reddit posts, but nothing for my printer.
I replaced the toner with new 3rd party toner which worked. And now I'll never install another firmware update on the printer and should probably block it from the internet.
Drag thought Brother were supposed to be the makers of user friendly printers. Are they enshittifying?
I fear the day my 2014 hp LaserJet dies. There won't be a decent printer on the market....
anyone know about jailbreaking printers
It absolutely baffles me that there isn't a huge custom printer firmware movement.
I've have had this thought too and the only reason I can think of is that the inkjet printers are sold at such a rediculous loss, that anything that could be sold next to them without the offset price from ink would seem like a bad joke.
I think they meant - movement to release custom firmware for existing printers.
You were the chosen one! π
They had two things going for them... Decent linux support and non-shitty DRM ink/toner
Et tu Brute! :(
nononononononpnNONONONONONO WHYYYYY I JUST GOT A BROTHER BECAUSE OF HP DOING THE SAME THING WTF
Keep it off the Internet and don't update the firmware
Haha, my crappy ass old HP printer still takes refills. No printer company shall ever see another cent of mine π
Et tu Brother?
This is a total shit move but I have tried many printers and I'm still choosing Brother everytime. Especially on some older generations with copy scan and print. None of the other big brands are worth a shit. They all fail or jam in some form or fashion.
Give them time and theyβll suck too. Nothing is safe from enshitification, as theyβve just shown us.
It's going to get to the point where you might be better off going back to dot matrix if tank-based inkjet printers are somehow locked down via chemical DRM too.
Brother used to be the good guys... Damn.
Right? I used to recommend friends and family invest in a brother laser printer instead of inkjet, especially if they didnβt need color
In case anyone was thinking this applies only to inkjet printers: no, it ONLY seems to apply to laser printers -- the thing that Brother used to be known for. Where the article says "ink", they mean "toner". There is no ink in a laser printer.
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Oh FFS. Not Brother as well. I used to recommend them to everyone. Who is left with unshittified printers?
I donβt at all feel vindicated, but my Brother printer is the worst printer I ever owned (this was 20 years ago admittedly). Absolute hunk of junk with nothing but problems. Iβve always wondered why they were so well recommended online.
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It's like every company that wasn't complete shit just suddenly decided to...go to complete shit.
The government has mostly turned a blind eye to dark pattern business for years, and now the president is openly saying that he encourages it and wants companies to step up their game. Of course things are going to get worse, especially now where everyone will have forgotten this by the next election, so it'll get to stay as "the norm"
With the current US government, there's far more roadblocks to running a company ethically than turning it to absolute shit
Brother is a Japanese company.
If regulators donβt stop them from doing it, the CEOβs of publicly traded companies will get the boot from the board for not doing it. They have a fiduciary duty to be as shitty as humanly possible.
We need laws to stop this, but the politicians are all bribed not to.
They have a fiduciary duty to be as shitty as humanly possible.
They don't -- that's a cargo-cult misunderstanding of Dodge v. Ford Motor Co -- but it's so widely believed I guess it might as well be true.
Well, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary, such as the way Costco mostly operates. Being the good guys has a lot of brand value. With a little nurturing of the vast propaganda machine known as advertising, that could be improved.
If the people sitting on the Supreme Court believe it, and I believe the majority of those shitbags do, then that is unfortunately the law as it stands.
But when the law is unethical, I donβt see why we should be lawful.
It's like every company that was~~n't complete~~ playing the social good will game and didn't appear at a casual glance to be shit just suddenly decided to...go ~~to complete shit.~~ masks off, because they saw it might finally be acceptable to be ghouls again.
Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure I FTFY. Wish it weren't so, but that's definitely what it looks like....
The mask of humanity fall[s] from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone -- everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed.
- The Deserter, Disco Elysium
They are just taking the mask off since they don't have to wear it right now.
Game is such a fucking gem. I gotta do a replay soon.
They are just taking the mask off since they don't have to wear it right now.
Cuts into profit margins pretending to not be a threat to the continued existence of the species and ecosystem as a whole. Gotta buy that 15th mega-yacht.
Something something, I'll bring the BBQ sauce.
Unrestrained Capitalism. Without those pesky regulations, companies can charge us all unlimited amounts and not have to consider our rights or health/safety.
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I suggest whoever has old firmware files to upload them to the Internet Archive (if they allow those).
Got this link from reddacted
mega.nz/folder/gjgiXA4Z#VHJqPNUx8wgcPYyfq44zag
Internet Archive is extremely lax in what it allows
I'm actually looking for a good multifunctional printer. Our Samsung is dying. It was an LED printer and we only changed toner 1 time in 15 years.
If it's not already under the umbrella of right to repair, do we now need right to refill?
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