The appliance that elicits anger and frustrated at it’s mere sight. The treacherous device that never worked right.

    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
      5·
      3 days ago

      In grad school I picked up a an old free HP LaserJet, with an Ethernet NIC card (it was an upgradable printer, maybe from the mid 2000s?).

      It was great! Only complaint was no duplexer, but the thing printed great from Linux and the generic toner was cheap.

      Today though…the experience is a bit different.

      • Landless2029@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 days ago

        Yeah I got an HP laser MFC with like 3 new carts 10 years ago. NIC and Duplex. Going to have it for at least 10 more years or brother when it dies.

    • Allero@lemmy.today
      4·
      3 days ago

      I really cannot believe we fucked printers in so many unique ways.

      • No universal drivers and software support, requiring entire settings pages to be about printers
      • DRM everywhere, rendering third party cartridges useless
      • Routinely bad security, making Wi-Fi enabled printers one of the common attack vectors

      Etc. etc.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        HpLJ4 was a wonderful beast.

        Having said that, “print drivers” need to be “I’m gonna blow a PDF onto your port 9100 and you better make the things go on the goddamned paper or you fail and it’s the wood chipper for you”. I’m tired of everything else.

      • Toes♀@ani.social
        4·
        3 days ago

        My favourite bad security thing about them is that it’s possible to hack them with a fake fax.