[Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company
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Am I just jaded about the whole internet or does this read like an AI summary? It feels too specific to be written by a human.
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I no longer have any corporate relationships that aren't either apprehensive, strained, or downright antagonistic.
It's us versus them now and they've give their last shits. It's feeling like every company is a cable company now.
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I have a Brother MFC-9340CDW that I salvaged from work last year, we replaced it because it kept getting a ghost "paper jam" every time you tried to print something. Turns out the cause is an $18 board that's known to fail.
Now to figure out how to disable automatic firmware updates
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It looks like the latest firmware on their website for my old-ass black & white brother laser was released in 2019.
Hopefully that thing lasts another few decades on top of the ~15 years I’ve already had it, because it sounds like it’s the last printer I’m going to buy.
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It's funny how far ahead 3d printers are in terms of consumer experience, everything is open, everything works and the tech is like 300 times more complex.
2D printer companies should be shamed to death.
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If we reach a point where an AI can summarize a video to that degree and provide background summaries, I'd happily use it. I mean, I'd mark the origin, but nah, this is just me.
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I should qualify that -- I don't know for sure whether and which distros enable updates to run non-interactively.
fwupdhas the ability to do so and it's billed as doing so on its github page, but that doesn't mean that a distro has to actually take advantage of that. Could be that in a default configuration on a given distro, it only updates stuff next time you invoke it. -
This is mainly because consumer 3d printer have been developped by 3d printing enthusiast first and not a company, Prusa which was leader for some time used a lot of open sources project to build their printers. As it's getting mainstream as time goes by more and more companies shows up with closed sources project sadly.
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FYI an MBR table with a fat32 partition is probably what it was looking for. If that doesn't work odds are the port is broken
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Over time as 3D printers go from tinkerer's toy to household staple, I'd expect them to become more locked down and anti-consumer.
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Can't watch right now, but is there a list of affected devices?
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Except those who aren't.
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Always has been like that.
Not one single corporation is your friend or wants to be. All they want is your money. No exceptions.
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Has anyone figured out how to 3d print a 2d printer yet?
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Don't worry. Companies like Bambu and others are trying to lock down shift their printer business in the style of 2d printer companies. I hope it at least happens very slowly, but the enshittification is happening...
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By my count, it's been tried twice.
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Isn’t prusa now doing anti consumer / closed source stuff?
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I didn't even know he had a brother.
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Do we really need to crowd fund a FOSS printer? Really?
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They would have to become sci-fi level capable before they would be considered household staple items.
