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Honestly, I feel like it's from technological incompetence. These people don't understand how a basic website works. They think facebook is entirely on their phone. Which, don't get me wrong, there isn't really anything wrong with an older person not understanding how it works. But it's entirely different when you're the one responsible for making decisions on laws involving technology.

Technology is developing at mach speed, and the government has a pack of snails pulling it forward. Couple that with many of the people making decisions being ancient, and you have laws that are not even close to matching our technology. Shoot, even photography laws are outdated. In the US, photography laws are practically non-existent. The only laws that apply to people taking pictures are trespassing laws. If you're allowed to stand there, and you can see it, you can take a picture. Laws weren't really needed when cameras weren't in every single persons pocket all the time.

You were saying in the example of the government requesting the data. That's not any different for reddit or Lemmy. If anything, it would be harder to get from Lemmy since it's decentralized. And reddit is known to comply with government warrants.

Almost is the keyword. You'd still save a few bucks

Lol, the comment thread you replied to is literally talking about color printers. The person you replied to said "How often does the average person really need that" with the 'that' being in reference to printing in color. Then you listed a bunch of stuff that doesn't need color

Mr. money bags over here. I'll enjoy my glass of petrol over here

If you're printing that infrequently, you could easily have your stuff printed elsewhere. But even for people that rarely print, a laser printer is going to be your best bet. It uses black plastic dust it melts to the paper, so it can go for years without "drying out" because there's nothing to dry out.

Sure, but that doesn't change the cost of the liquid. It's a direct comparison of the price of 1ml for each product. That's not a problem, that's just the cost of the liquid. People do the same thing with different metals, rocks, and whatever else you want to compare the price of.

While there is obviously cost in research and manufacturing the ink, they could 100% make it substantially cheaper. But they can make more money with expensive ink, and cheap printers.

If someone buys a more expensive printer, the company profits that once, and there will be a higher barrier to entry because not as many people are willing to spend that much up front on a printer. So while they could still up-charge for ink, fewer people would be buying it, but if they up-charged for both that would be fewer people buying still overall.

If instead they give away the printers for super cheap, even if it's at a loss, then up charge a ton for the ink, a bunch of people will have printers that will routinely need more ink. Someone may see a printer on sale for $10 and think "what an incredible deal" and get it on an impulse. Now they're stuck needing to purchase the ink to keep it functioning. That is a higher income spread over a longer period of time. Companies will always be able to profit more if they can get people to spend their money over time than if they offer a reliable product for a one time purchase.

Okay, but 52% of traffic on reddit is coming from Youtube??? Those channels that just compile reddit posts must really be helping Reddit. Lets make some Lemmy reading channels

Yep. They went from 1.7B visits to 1.7B visits

They could already do that with Reddit. Is that something that happens?