[Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company
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Kind of, but with less wood and a lot more micro plastics. That's how you can tell it's modern.
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I used to have wood a lot more often, before microplastics.
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That gives a whole new twist to "you'll own nothing and be happy"
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Fucking hell that sums up my life surprisingly well actually.
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I've decided that just going to a copy shop a few times a year is less hassle.
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Inside the US, sure. That just means you don't get the cool FOSS printer.
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Welcome to the future
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You can still build it yourself.
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Not sure if I got the update yet, but I'm banning my printer from accessing the internet right now.
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Future for normies: Renting everything
Future for me: Rejecting everything, I will write in cuneiform on clay tablets before I rent a fucking HP printer.
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I have a Canon color laser printer which works pretty well and doesn’t pull any of this shit. They’re probably the last one standing now.
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I have VERY few and I cherish them.
Fairphone feels great to me. I think My coffee stuff is the same (Profitec, Eureka Mignon); no app or wifi or anything, fairly available spare parts.
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This shift in business model also means a drop in customer service. They used to sell you a product and stand behind it because eventually they wanted you to choose them when you needed a new or different product. Now that they have you roped in via a sort of forced dependency, they don't have to pretend to be nice to you even.
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You actually can’t sell third-party printers legally, because all printers will include an ink fingerprint which can be traced back to that specific printer.
All color printers.
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Didn't fairphone start selling Bluetooth headphones after getting rid of the headphone jack
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Sure did. Repairable ones. I strongly prefer wired headphones and will keep using them as I can, and I ain't buying earbuds.
But I'd rather not let perfect be the enemy of good. I am not giving up a cellphone, so I'd rather have Fairphone trying (ans sometimes fucking it up) than give my money to anyone else in the market.
Them not being perfect in my eyes doesn't qualify as a hostile relationship between their corporation and me.
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Exactly. The way to make money pre-Internet was "generate repeat business" and the way to do that was to create a product and service the customer was happy with.
The way to make money now is to get the customer trapped, then pump them as hard as possible.
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I used to work for canon as a service tech. They are a wildly scummy company that routinely goes out of their way to fuck over their employees and customers.
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I've had an Epson Ecotank for the last couple years and I have no complaints. I just refilled my black ink and it was $11 for 9 oz., which should last me years (but I don't print that often).
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Honestly, more people should probably do that. If you have a low printing volume, you'll save a lot of money by going to a store to get prints.
Yes, you can argue that you need the convenience of having a printer right there. Just realize you're spending a lot of extra money for that convenience.
