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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming βWow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 537 5/6*
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Wordle 537 4/6
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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#Worldle #320 3/6 (100%)
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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HP. Yes Hewlett Packard who has decided you cannot using what you just bought without an online account _and_ an internet connection.
Imagine - you need to scan a document. The laptop is 10' away from the printer. I have to login to an account to be able to scan. wtf? And their s/w is absolutely terrible. They call it HP Smart but it's really HP dumb, clearly designed by a bunch of monkeys beating on keyboards with bananas.
Apologies to monkeys everywhere. I should not drag them down to HP's level.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I agree 100%. A few months ago herself needed a printer for home office.
i bought "simple" HP printer. Hooked it up & it wanted to install entire print system which would order new ink. I disconnected it, boxed it up and took it back. It also used 1 black & 1 (mixed color cart).
I bought another one of the epson wf-2850[^] It uses 4 individual cartridges for ink & doesn't require any special software to be installed.
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herself does not like Epson (for some reason, no idea). I miss my basic Samsung. I was broken hearted to learn HP had bought them.
Never again. I so rarely print, it might make a case just to send print jobs to the UPS store (2 miles down the street).
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I used to have several old and semi reliable printers, all of which decided to fail at the same time. I discovered that I could buy an ex-lease Fuji for a reasonable price. Prints all sizes, double sided, scans, emails, colour, you name it. Great decision.
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I went with a Brother laser printer . . . It was Cheap(ish), had well priced toner and for Bonus points it supports Linux as well.
And most importantly it did not try to embed you into a vendor ecosystem.
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It's not stupid, it's mean and deliberate.
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My personal rule - never assume malicious behavior when incompetence would suffice.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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feel your pain
I have HP laptop and HP desktop. Very good and solid.
I have HP ink tank printer. works great.
However, like much of the network and computer industry, HP insists you to be part of their cloud of operations.
Makes business sense but not necessarily sensible for customers.
I resist as much as I can.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I'm okay if they want to change their business model, etc.
What I am not okay with is when the printer won't print. And it does not tell you why.
And the software doesn't tell you why.
Or they make a trivial process harder than it needs to be.
It's like Windows 11 and Microsoft's rape of the menus and what not. They *say* it was for a better user experience, but I challenge anyone from MS to justify it. Now I read that one of the later updates reduces file transfer performance by 40%. Huh? HOW DO YOU BREAK THAT?
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Return the printer if possible and get your money back.
Your experience says bad printer, bad software. Or they want your computer to turn into an HP.
Run away.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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charlieg wrote: Now I read that one of the later updates reduces file transfer performance by 40%. They accomplished that with the release of Windows 7, IIRC, and never fixed it in any subsequent version.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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We use Cannon at home. This thing prints/scans with one klick from everywhere - iOS, Windows, Android. I think if I just give it a kick, it will start printing...something. In fact, I'm convinced this printer is like the semi's brakes - the default state is printing, it needs power and software to hold it from printing.
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet!
Advertise here β minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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I have a Canon multi-function unit at home and I like it a lot. One nice thing I found is third party ink is available for it at very inexpensive prices. I think I paid $20 for five sets of cartridges which is considerably better than 40 or 50 for one set from Canon.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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might need to look into them.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Once I get the initiative to pick up my old amateur photography hobby (getting that activity running is the big problem!), I will look for an upper-middle-class photo printer. A3 size is minimum - preferably continuous paper roll. Epson is a good name in photo printers, and a couple of my friends have bought smaller Epson models where you can refill the printer's cartridges from large bottles - and it is 'original' ink!
They are very satisfied - the per-copy ink cost is significantly below other alternatives. The only disadvantage: Don't spell the ink from the bottle on anything. It is impossible to wash off. If you get it on your fingertips, you must scrub your fingers with harsh soap for a week, until the cells of your fingertips has been replaced by new cells from below.
This doesn't scare me. Both cost concerns and the reputation for quality points to Epson as the provider of my next printer. AND: I have checked out - the Epson printer series works perfectly fine without a network connection. (Unless things have changed over the last six months.)
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There's been instances where I've successfully extracted the installer content to a folder on disk.
With that available, instead of running the setup.exe or whatever bootstrap process installs the whole thing, I just launched Device Manager, selected the newly added "Unknown Device", right-clicked, selected Update Driver, and then navigated to the extracted folder and told Device Manager to look in there.
As long as Device Manager can find at least a set of .INF and .SYS files, you may be lucky enough to get the basics working. I know (for example) my scanner has some fancy software, but I really don't need/want it, and as long as Paint.NET sees there's an "Imaging Device" (which was enabled by installing the driver), it can perform the scan and everybody's happy (well, myself primarily, I don't care if the manufacturer doesn't get to spy on what it is I just scanned)...
YMMV. But yes, I agree that requiring to have some account and being online to use some piece of hardware that is completely unrelated to networking (for one) deserves a return / refund.
I also have a printer where this approach didn't work. I gave in and installed the full software, but in a VM that is dedicated to using that printer. It's spending 99.99% of its time turned off, so there's no software needlessly wasting resources and connecting all the time to who-knows-what.
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I have a couple of scrub machines around, I'll give that a try. HP must be injecting itself into the print spooler some how.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I completely despise HP. A few employers ago they were our biggest customer and they quickly become the worst customer I have ever had to deal with, EVER! They gave us documents on all procedures we had to follow that filled up an entire bookshelf and the best part about them was they didn't follow them yet they were supposed to. I won't even get start on the incompetence I had to deal with. Anyway, they were so bad that I vowed to never buy anything from them ever again and I haven't.
FWIW, one of the their systems I worked on built inkjet cartridges. It used the most ridiculous application framework I have seen in my entire career. It was absolutely disgusting to work with. Apparently it was someone's master's degree thesis and I can't believe it survived a defense. Had I been on that board I would have rejected it entirely. I hold it and its advocates in very low regard. If any of you are reading this, I MEAN IT!
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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