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HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …

HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …

      • jrubal1462@kbin.social
        4·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know what CUPS is, but I had 3 major reservations about switching my barely functional computer to Linux:

        1. Ive never worked in Linux before
        2. My dive computer only uploads to proprietary software using a proprietary cable.
        3. My Brother laser printer was working SO well wirelessly. It’s the first time I’ve ever not hated my printer

        Turns out some amazing people made open source dive logging software so I can still download my dives.

        And for printing, I meant to get around to setting it up, then one day I forgot and accidentally printed something and it just worked. I was so shocked that for a bit I assumed that reformatting the hard drive and changing operating systems must’ve somehow preserved my printer settings.

      • scarilog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        If you print more than twice a decade, you can get that down to about 2 cents a page with a brother laser printer and third party cartridges.