Also from the article:
Subject to the terms of this Agreement, You hereby grant to HP a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free right to use, copy, store, transmit, modify, create derivative works of and display Your non-personal data for its business purposes.
The what now!?
It also says that HP may “transfer information about you to advertising partners” so that they can "recognize your devices," perform targeted advertising, and, potentially, "combine information about you with information from other companies in data sharing cooperatives" that HP participates in.
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just more ignorant parasite class c-suite monsters deciding they should receive money without providing ANYTHING OF VALUE
'here's a "printer" but it's not a printer as much as a data extraction device intended to make us money at your expense, go fuck yourself'
Hewlett-Packard used to mean a company that made some damn nice devices that worked well, lasted, and were nice to use (I've got an HP12C calculator, as one such example). But they've eaten away at that rep to the point it was trash... and then they decide to up the ante and go full-on trash.
I will horribly neglect mine for like, a year or two, start it up again, it jams off and on for maybe a day but then is back up running full speed like the toner never even took a break. It's amazing.
Yeah, one of the best things about toner vs. ink is that toner isn't a liquid, so it can't dry out. It just lasts and lasts and lasts.
The trade-off is that, if you spill some, you need to remember to wash using cold water, because heat can fuse it to whatever it was spilled on.
Two things:
-$36/month is a lot of money. You can buy a decent printer for less than $500 and it will last more than 2 years
-why would anyone agree to a printer that transmits your documents back to HP? Most of what people print is financial documents
hp just sold a shit ton of brother printers
if you can do without color for your day-to-day, you can get a brother b&w laser printer for less than $200. in 4 yrs I've bought 2 toner carts because they print forever b4 running out & they don't phone home
if I need color I just go to the library
I have an incredible workhorse printer that I can’t use anymore because there are no compatible drivers with my laptop. It’s so frustrating. I use one at the library now, but I have one I can’t use at home
Samsung ML-1630. It’s about 10 years old and it’s amazing. I can’t figure the Linux thing out myself but that’s a good thing to ask friends, thank you for the suggestion
You could ask a friend to make a bootable USB (live cd) for you, and you can always just login to linix for the print (might be less hassle than walking to the library every time)
I have a 15 year old Brother Laserjet that is still going strong and will almost certainly be rejected at some point by my Mac and I'm going to be so angry when that happens
Most of what I print are kids colouring sheets on my trusty Brother. I almost kinda wish I had an HP one to mess with their ad profile algo, although I don't really want to see amazon affiliate links and facebook ads for colouring books everywhere I go.
yeah I am hung up on the rental price; a few months and you could buy a decent printer outright.
then again, there exist furniture rental places that charge high prices because the Vimes Boots Theory is a thing
yep. I get them from my recycling connections all the time. they cost me next to nothing, I think I paid maybe 10 bucks for this one and only because it weighed 30 pounds
I'm a reseller and buy stuff by the pound and refurbish everything / flip it. printers are a exception where I pull out good brother/hp/lexmark lasers with low page counts or new consumables, and give them to people or local organizations so they don't waste money on inkjet garbage
