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HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not to defend HP^[1]^, but if you look closely at the picture, the sticker has an arrow suggesting you to peel off the sticker. I would still say that the intentions of even putting this sticker there is malicious though.

a picture of the sticker

[1]: I've also been "scammed" by HP. I have a DeskJet 2130 bought more than 5 years ago. (I guess you could say it was from before HP went greedy.) It was under only very light use (occasional school stuff that needed to be printed out). Every time I came back to the printer after not using the printer for several months, the ink cartridges would have dried out. I would swap them out because they wouldn't work even after shaking, none the wiser that half of the "empty" cartridges probably could have been revived by wiping it with a tissue. (I discovered this only 1 year ago when I tried it.)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have a question about that. It's a US thing, isn't it?

I had to install one for a relative and I never needed an app or software or connecting the printer to internet. I simply ran the windows tool and it installed the drivers while the printers couldn't access the internet. Everything works perfectly. But, I'm in Europe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That works for most printers I’ve used in the US too.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Country make atomic bomb.

USA invade the country.

"Hide the atomic bomb button with a sticker"

See ? We don't have an atomic bomb.

USA : it seems like it but you got oil tho.

Shit , we forgot to print the "not an oil pump" stickers. We're fucked !

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