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HP insists you must use their cloud printing service, covers USB port with sticker (yiffit.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If only life were that simple. Whose laptops am I going to buy?

Dell: Marks up replacement SSD prices by 10x (including the predatory behaviour of embedding QR codes to these in the bios to be shown in error states) Apple: ... Lenovo: History of installing literal spyware Microsoft: Bad products

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Marks up replacement SSD prices by 10x

You know you can just pop in a Crucial MX500, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And I did. The issue is they put in a QR code for their own $800 500 GB SSD in the bios error message for when your SSD breaks.

My non-technical friend had no idea it's an obscene price and may have bought it just to get his laptop working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The correct answer to that question is currently Framework.