[Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company
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Same. I'm good for a while, but it's going to suck if I ever need to replace it.
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Nah, that time has long passed. Brother is probably less bad than many of its competitors, but that doesn't make it good.
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$5 USB fob for printing
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Me omw to hack and blackmail brother ceo to get him to enshittify all their printers
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I kind of doubt it. Local libraries have a hard time staying open due to funding.
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Seriously? The library computers are running Windows 8 I highly doubt they have the technical expertise to do anything. Also why would they?
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I'm glad there's a printer service close to where I live, I can go there and print every page for cents. There's also one on my faculty, more expensive, but still affordable. I only use my HP printer/scanner to scan documents, ink is expensive as hell.
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I actually bought an old used Brother printer for $20, and it came with toner and everything already, so since I do not print a lot, my only recurring fee is paper and it is miniscule. And should I need to replace the toner, it is still widely available.
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Makerbot after the Stratasys buyout.
There were a bunch of companies that tried right after the FDM patents expired in 2009. Most of them were completely forgotten or ignored because they were closed source (and more importantly closed material) companies and never got very far off the starting blocks.
Bamboo learned from them and decided to pull the rug out after getting a foothold with finally selling decent prebuilt hardware for less than a fortune (see Ultimaker before buying out MakerBot at least).
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When I saw this title. I thought another YouTube hardware advocate turned their back on Louis and started an anti-consumer group to fight off policy debate that Louis does. My brain is wild.
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and to be as amoral as possible.
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Thanks for the link.
Looks like not really closed-source, but not fully open as the previous printers were.
And the reasoning is the usual, other companies stealing their designs.
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I personally don’t, on the off chance I do need to print something I do it at work.
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I trust the library a lot more than I trust Staples or a similar for-profit business.
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Click the wiki link
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Yeah, with the Vault 7 releases and recent leaks showing NSA follows homeless people's connections (who tend to hang out at libraries due to a lack of 3rd spaces), I don't doubt there's specific tracking, malware and other unwanted software at libraries. I don't have any sources of this, but it wouldn't surprise me
Maybe I'm overly parandoid because ::gestures at everything::