As a side note, it’s happened more than once that when someone cancels their HP printer subscription, their printer fully breaks.

It’s because, basically, the subscription-specific ink kamikazes.

We should turn this disease into a cure ... I am going to start charging a subscription for my personal information. You want my email address? 1$ a month. Phone number? 1$ a month. Purchase history? 1$ a mo per item.

hell, you could prob drop the sub to 10c a month per item and still be raking in millions of $$$ a month if you could enforce it.

@CaffeineAddiction “5c to send me an unsolicited email”

Spammers would be broke, everyone would be rich

I have an old HP CP1215 color laser printer... toner cartridges are cheap, print quality is good enough for anything I need, it have no wifi, no networking and no stupid-printing features (it's marketed as smart-printing, but I call stupid-printing). As this is an office-grade printer, replacement parts are plentiful and Chinese clones are quite good. I will keep it for as long as I can.

and I bought a cheap tplink (or dlink, can't remember) travel router for $15, installed openwrt on it with a print server, wired it to the printer via USB, and now my CP1215 is a network printer.

Saturday night is change management night!