Technology

65819 readers

7105 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

383

Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

36 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Brother was caught recently using software to block third party toner cartridges like HP did.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/brother-denies-firmware-blocks-third-165556103.html

Hopefully this isn't Brother enshittifing their own product, but it's possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

That doesn't look good. At least the EU watchdogs are punishing HP for this type of tactics. Hopefully the other manufacturers will take a hint and won't try this shit on EU customers and hopefully other regulators will follow through