• Kyyrypyy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Can’t wait for either open source community, or the pirate community, for starting to jailbreak HP printers. To be honest, if I was more savvy with tech, I’d probably start taking that as a fun little challenging hobby.

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      1 year ago

      The open source community would tell you to get an ancient LaserJet 4 (or, more likely at this point, a Brother printer) instead.

      Aside from that, there’s a worrying increasing trend in the amount of stuff that ought to be getting jailbroken, but isn’t for some reason. Smart TVs, for example. I think that the community of people with the skills and willingness to do that sort of thing is too small, and is getting spread too thin to keep up with the fire hose of Tivoized products coming out these days.

      If you want a solution for this nonsense, call your congressman and ask for consumer protection legislation, 'cause I don’t think the hackers are going to be able to save us from the prevailing trend of the entire consumer electronics industry.