• @devilish666@lemmy.world
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      269 days ago

      Well…they make other products too. I’m sure Laptop/Desktop/Server department transferred some money to Printer department

      • @P1nkman@lemmy.world
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        479 days ago

        I used to work in a large oil company for a decade. Around 2018, everyone got new HP laptops with touch screen. We’re talking 20.000 permanent employees, and more than 40.000 externals (externals did not get a laptop). After a couple of weeks, people started complaining about the fan making a lot of noise.

        After HP checked the laptops, it turned out that the fan was not powerful enough. Their solution? Limit the CPU speed. And my company just agreed. Fuck that noise!!!

        I already started boicotting them in 2009, when i purchased a computer, which had an S-video. But it didn’t work. Went to the store that sold it, they told me to contact HP. I did, and they just told me that it was a error on the entire laptop series, and that I should’ve known about it before I purchased the laptop.

        Go fuck yourself, HP!

        • @rippersnapper@lemm.ee
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          27 days ago

          Yeah HP’s recent elite book is unfortunately popular with businesses. My office got them when we were about to be issued. Everyone complained, so they decided to move back to Dell for standard issue. Unfortunately I’m stuck with HP for next few years.

        • @VieuxQueb@lemmy.world
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          69 days ago

          I decided to stay away from HP around that time. I was regularly troubleshooting a friend’s laptop and thought he got tons of virus and spywares from sketchy porn sites must be why he has weird issues with intermittent Internet… Turns out it was his wifi adapter being killed by the cpu heat. A real bad design that HP refused to acknowledge to not have to pay for its mistakes. Then years later they acknowledge there was an issue once nobody is having those machines anymore. Friend could never get even a partial refund.

          • @P1nkman@lemmy.world
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            19 days ago

            This was in Norway! I was fucking flabbergasted when it happened!

            The story about my personal laptop was in Australia.

  • @shiftymccool@programming.dev
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    639 days ago

    People sure like to just toss the word “brick” around. These printers are still functional enough to get another firmware update to fix them. You know what can’t? Bricks

      • @Darkenfolk@dormi.zone
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        89 days ago

        Pfft, in my time bricks had a very specific definition with respect to masonry work.

        You damn kids with your fake definitions for real words, I swear it’s because y’all are rotting your brains away with all these new mediums for acquiring news.

        • @shiftymccool@programming.dev
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          78 days ago

          It’s really the same definition. The first time i heard it in this context was with modding/rooting smartphones (in the early days). If you fucked up a step, your device could end up in a completely unusable and unrecoverable state. At that point, its only use would be as an expensive brick

          • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            Exactly. Bricking is about as serious as it gets when it comes to issues with devices. If you can use it at all at any point in the future (I guess without professional refurbishment), then it’s not bricked.

    • @cpaq47@lemmy.world
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      69 days ago

      You’re funny. It’s 2025, words no longer have any meaning.

      It used to make me mad. Now it just makes me sad.

  • @Absaroka@lemmy.world
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    299 days ago

    My wife bought one of these pieces of shit before we got together. A few months back I finally got to the point where I had the “honey we need to throw out your printer and get a new one.”

    “OK - should we give it to my sister or see if any of our friends want this?”

    “I’m not sure I dislike any of your friends or family enough to inflict this much frustration on them.”

  • @wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee
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    249 days ago

    Clearly those cartridges must’ve been made by some merry band of maritime robbers. You know, the kind of criminals who’d force you to give them your money, but give you nothing of proportional value in return.

    Could be that the problem isn’t the firmware per se.

  • rem26_art
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    “You all keep saying we’ve enshittified printers so you all lose your printing rights until you think about what you’ve done”

    • @bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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      129 days ago

      Sure, let’s make them pay a paltry sum that mostly enriches the lawyers, and everyone else gets a check for a nickel.

  • @jyl@sopuli.xyz
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    139 days ago

    I too have made the mistake of flipping an if statement. It was clearly supposed to happen to non-HP cartridges.

  • @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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    109 days ago

    Imagine how many 1,000s of other users are being affected by this and just think their printer broke.

    I mean, it did.