misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoBrother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portalswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square223fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarebanazir@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 hours agoUnironically, this is why RMS was radicalized.
minus-squarememe_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 hours agoRMS: gestures at GCC and the whole GNU/Linux ecosystem Look man, all I wanted to do was to print this letter to my ma…
minus-squaregutter_angel@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 hours agoi came across this explanation of it, haven’t verified it directly but he seems to make good content: https://youtube.com/shorts/ZX8OaZZDlM8 he says theres identification each time you print using the yellow ink, and basically is a counterfeit currency countermeasure id kill to have a foss print setup though
Foss printer when?
Unironically, this is why RMS was radicalized.
RMS: gestures at GCC and the whole GNU/Linux ecosystem Look man, all I wanted to do was to print this letter to my ma…
i came across this explanation of it, haven’t verified it directly but he seems to make good content:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZX8OaZZDlM8
he says theres identification each time you print using the yellow ink, and basically is a counterfeit currency countermeasure
id kill to have a foss print setup though