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Best printer 2024: a humorous critique of the Google search engine, LLMs and printer enshittification (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Sibbo@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I still recommend Brother printers, but some MFC-* models do support/enforce OEM lock-in after firmware updates according to reports. All the info is 2 years old and I so want to be wrong on this. Have they reversed that decision? Firmware update disables 3rd party toner

I just advised a business on a tech proposal, including printers, and the bid quoted one of the lock-in models. Of course it's a company so toner is a business expense and they arn't pinching pennies, but the owner is with the us in not supporting this decision. Props to them.