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HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors::"Never own a printer again."

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Apart from this printer nonsense, why do people hate HP so much?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

They sell ink for higher prices than champagne. And make it impossible to use third party ink.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Their products have become pretty junk as of recent, at least on the consumer side. I hear good things about their enterprise devices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

HP was making garbage in the 2000s. Always has been, always will be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Absolutely hate the fact that their drivers and firmware updates (for servers) are stashed away behind ludacris support contracts.

Have a simplivity stack at work, and for two nodes with an off site DR, needed an $8,000 support contract just to get the latest drivers and firmware to upgrade to the latest VMware version simplivity supports.

One shot deal, as we are already planning the move away from VMware and getting plans together for budgets to do so...

Maybe they all do this...? Admittedly I've not had to go looking for drivers or firmware updates on the few dells we have as they are air gapped systems that just run for a very specific purpose... So I honestly am not sure. But HP absolutely sucks in this regard as far as Im concerned.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I got one for you: You're on a tightrope of balancing security and your pocketbook, because a firmware update might also include DRM to brick any aftermarket toners you might have purchased.

Oh, you don't wanna pay out the nose for gEnUiNe HP?? What's your threat model look like?

Ridiculous.