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I'll start: printers.

I bought an HP in March 2020 when my job went remote and HP bricked it remotely after only 100 pages because I wouldn't sign up for their subscription program. Ended up trashing a perfectly good printer.

Luckily my library's close by and I can print there remotely.

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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (18 children)

Cars.

Most any vehicle made after 2006 will have one or more of these three issues:

  1. Lack of repairability. Not just computerization, but auth to the point where changing your brake pads and rotors can make your vehicle refuse to move until those brakes and rotors are authorized over the Internet by the vehicle manufacturer. And the software to do so costs $1M to buy, needs a $6k/mo subscription, and can only be bought by authorized dealers, locking out independent repair shops.
  2. Privacy. Almost all vehicles after 2006 and any before that with OnStar records everything the vehicle does and sends that up to the mothership to be repackaged and sold to data brokers. Then your insurance gets a copy and jacks up what you pay because you braked hard and sped slightly over the limit a few times. Modern cars will also record everything that happens inside and around the vehicle, to the point where when you buy the car you have to sign a waiver that states they have permission to record anyone doing anything inside the vehicle, up to and including having sex in the back seat.
  3. DRM/subscriptions. When you buy a vehicle with all the bells and whistles, but many of those bells and whistles are shut down until you pay $$$/mo to have them turned back on. Sorry, but if the vehicle came with it, I will gleefully crack that software until I can use that feature. I paid for it when I bought the vehicle, so I have every right to use it without paying a cent extra.
[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ive got a 2017 car and a 2018 car, one of them is even electric and basically none of what you say is true until ~2020 model year. That's about the time th subscription model came out for extras on some european cars.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Printers, not only just from enshittification, but also due to the fact that traditionally they were constantly having issues to the point of being a meme. I need to print something twice a year, so yeah, I ain't dealing with all that.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

I mean, you bought an HP printer. What did you expect?

deadpigeon.jpg

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

TVs. I haven’t gotten around to it yet, but I want to set up a Linux based streaming box and have my actual TV completely offline.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

HP printers. For a long time, they had been my printer of choice because of quality and Linux support, but the quality has been replaced by enshittification. The last two printers had been fuckups (two, because I mistook the first ones' shittyness for being a one-off bad one), and wasted overpriced ink on a massive scale.

Since then, I've added HP to my black list of printers. The other brand on that list is Canon. But that's another story.

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[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago (12 children)

I haven't owned a home printer in a good 16 years. For the ultra rare thing I do print, work doesn't have a problem with personal print jobs.

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I'm not looking forward to my next car having everything on a touch screen and few tactile buttons/knobs. Then it will pass my data back to the manufacturer.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago
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