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Deshittification

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State of affairs for technology seem bad? But what is being done to change it? And what could be done by you so it changes at least for yourself?

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The brother printer my spouse has had for ages is finally running out of ink and a quick chedk shows that they don't make cartridges for it anymore, you cant reset them, and you can only buy dubious 3rd party options on amazon for $150 each. For that kind of money id rathet find a printer that let's me put of the scam, but im not finding a lot of options there. Does anyone have advice?

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[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If not Brother, I like my Epson ET-38XX. The 28XX series are also nice. Tanks and refillable. Super efficient on ink and good output. No weird shit. Just works.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Epson will say it's out of ink when it's not just so you have to buy more. It's enshittified too. Also, I bout a nice one and it was broken within a week. That was about 10 years ago though.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

okay. that sucks for you.

I've been using mine for years. no issues.

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That must be a model-specific enshitification. If the tanks are refillable (as @orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com says), then why would it matter?

I have not used an ecotank, but my local dollar store type of place sells a full set of generic ecotanks (45ml per tank) for less than a Big Mac. So it seems the Ecotanks avoid the shenannigans.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

The Ecotanks are efficient and in two years, I've filled mine exactly once... That was last week.