KDE Social
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
@misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish •
edit-2
2 months ago

Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals [see comments]

www.tomshardware.com

external-link
message-square
249
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • hardware@lemmy.world
  • technology@lemmy.zip
1.18K
external-link

Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals [see comments]

www.tomshardware.com

@misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish •
edit-2
2 months ago
message-square
249
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • hardware@lemmy.world
  • technology@lemmy.zip
Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals
www.tomshardware.com
external-link
RepairTuber Louis Rossmann taken aback by Brother’s quiet turn to the dark side.

Brother deny the claims:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/

via https://startrek.website/comment/15279250

  • IndescribablySad@threads.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    12•2 months ago

    Still cost me less than a new printer every two years if they multiplied their prices by 10.

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      4•2 months ago

      yup and your not using a printer every single day.

Technology@lemmy.world

!technology@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


  • @L4s@lemmy.world
  • @autotldr@lemmings.world
  • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks
  • @wikibot@lemmy.world
  • 2.72K users / day
  • 9.53K users / week
  • 17.9K users / month
  • 37.6K users / 6 months
  • 69.9K subscribers
  • 15.5K Posts
  • 660K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • @L3s@lemmy.world
  • enu
  • Technopagan
  • L4sBot
  • L3s
  • @L4s@hackingne.ws
  • BE: 0.19.3
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org