also love that Jingles believes ( hopes ?) he is still in the EU.. Because since Brexit, the UK is legally independent, ahem "strong and autonomous" and does not get most of the EU's legal protections (anymore)... so special terms and conditions apply on the North Side of the Channel.
Jingles, a couple of years ago, I took a chance on the Epson Eco Tank printer range. I wanted to be able to print A3/A3+ prints, I am a nature photographer. This range of printers is by far the best that I have ever had and I have had a few, including HP crap. To fill/refill inks is simplicity itself. Purchase either Epson ink or compatible ink and the results are near perfect. I am amazed at how little ink is used, even for an A3/A3+ print. Next time you need a reliable printer try Epson Eco Tank. You might be impressed.
I recommended the same printer to my mother in law. She really likes it too. After getting fed up with not being able to print because of one cartridge, I myself switched to a laser printer. Never going back to ink cartridge.
Mighty Jingles, Next time instead of tossing the gummed up ink cartridge and buying a new one, take some isopropyl alcohol (the kind you buy in the drug store), wet a Q-Tip with it and clean the print head where the ink comes out. The old dried up ink will dissolve, get picked up by the Q-Tip, wipe the ink head with a clean Q-Tip and the old ink cartridge should become usable again, providing there is still ink in it.
@@mortluby1359 No do not, stop giving advice out when it's clear you haven't a clue what you talking about. detergent and water??? are you taking the piss???
The more I hear about modern corporate behavior the more it feels like the consumer needs to remind the execs they're not immune to the consequences of their actions.
Jingles, I used to work for HPE, Data Centers While it was a decent paying job it was also a soul sucking existence. You're right about the cartridge system! Have you seen the newer printers coming out called "Ecotanks"??? Refillable cartridges, but OMG the price of their ink, must have platinum/osmium dust in it! Speaking of TANKS! Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks has announced it's opening early access for Feb 6th! Cannot wait! You played it, did a video, will you be doing more? Love to see more content! At least in yours you didn't putz around on which camouflage looked better...
As far as printers go, I have had great success with "brother" laser printers. Work great, last forever and you can use aftermarket refills if you want. Only downside is that color models are pricy.
And to top it off you're getting a laser printer which is far better than an ink-spitter. My color Brother laser printer was only $200, that isn't bad when you consider they aren't selling at a loss and that you aren't replacing gummed up cartridges every year. Also with all printers when you are printing black & white make sure to click the box for B&W in the print dialog window, otherwise it will make black by combining color inks.
I used to buy Hewlett Packard printers back in the day when they had some of the first quality black laserjet printers but I ceased that when 2000 came around as there were many other printers and I found hp printers seemed to have paper feed problems frequently which required me to disassemble them to rough up the rollers inside which proved to be quite difficult. I also gave up using inkjet printers for the very reason you say - the cartridges are way too expensive and they dry up. Laser is the only way to go and I have very successfully had a colour Dell printer for 20 years. No problems at all, and although Dell no longer sells printers and ink refills, the refills are readily available with few problems from third party sources. Even now, if this printer finally dies it would have been an excellent purchase for the number of years and the literally thousand and thousands of black and white, and colour pages I have printed with it - and it has never had paper feed troubles either! I looked recently to see if Dell still sells printers and sadly they gave up a few years ago to my sorrow! So what would be a quality printer now? I don't know!
I just have a library card and use their printer on the rare occasions I need to print things these days. And I haven't actually had to do that since... 2021 I think.
I will never buy anything Apple for myself or my friends and family because of how little I think of that company. If anyone buys me an Apple product, I will use it or I will sell it. I've never bought anything from Apple but back when their products were actually good, I was getting an iPad for my birthday at discount because my mum had a friend who worked in an Apple store and my mum wanted to know if I'd rather have the iPad 1 on my birthday (about 13 years ago) or the iPad 2 a week later (because the iPad 2 hadn't actually been put on shelves yet). I asked for the iPad 1 because as far as I knew at the time, the iPad 2 was a slightly more compact iPad 1 that also had a camera.
The last Apple product I used wasn't even Apple at the time, Macintosh in the late 80's in high school! Before the merge! 😂 Never actually used an Apple product. Never will either!
I switched to a colour laser printer to make at least the cartridge drying up a non-factor. Doesn’t help with the underlying issue of printer manufacturers being pricks, but at least it saves me some money in the long run by not having to buy new ink after printing not often enough
Been using laser printers for decades now, and never had any problems with non-original cartridges. Nevermind the price/page being far lower than on any inkjet. What really keeps me wondering is, that this extortion by the ink_jet manufacturers has not become common knowledge by now,
I think it is like many items these days - they look cheaper and people are scared by the higher initial prices of laser printers. I don't know how many people really consider long term costs any more. Buying things is all about the immediate price, it seems to me, these days as we live in a throw away society. Many products are also unserviceable and intentionally there are no parts with which to fix them.Apple even serialises key components that are not permitted to be sold by the large electronic components dealers. It is all about buy new and not permitting products to be fixed if they go wrong. In the US, right to repair crusaders have been fighting mightily for legislation requiring products to be serviceable and repairable but it is a hard battle when lobby companies happily pay large sums of money to politician's campaign funds on behalf of manufacturers to prevent legislators supporting such laws. Some of the reasons stated by such lobby firms saying as you mentioned that someone might install a virus, or even Tik-Tok on your device while it is being fixed are not uncommon How much does the non-electronic geek know about such things given the average age of a politician? @@mynameiswritinwater
I was expecting Jingles to at least mention Palworld. I've been seeing everyone else talk about so I thought for sure it would get a mention as current gaming news.
For other reasons, I don't like huge equipment, back in 2015 when I decided I want a printer and a scanner, I went that way. I bought a separate flatbed scanner and printer. I have the printer in its box, out of the view unless I need it. The scanner takes so much less space, it is better looking, and I have no need for the printer to be around when all I want is scan things. Though the last time I had a printer/scanner all in one was many years ago and I don't think I had such issues as you. Thankfully. And yes, I haven't actually used either of them since 2015.
I remember getting stung by Epson on the whole nope , you can print black because your yellow cartridge is empty; or nope, you can't scan because you've got no ink. At that point I just started buying laser printers, usually second hand; and they lasted for YEARS, before needing new toner. Then I'd just find another used laser with some toner, for less than the price of toner for the old printer. Been doing that for about 15 years now.
I bought a HP printer about 12 years ago for A$35 (the cheapest one i could find) had limetet issues with 3rd party cartiges. Just bought id for the scaner, witch works still fine. Id did however use almost a full cartrige to print a low quality page. So now wehn ever I need to print somthing I just go to the local liebrary and print it for 20 cents a page in high quality. So much more cheaper then keep buying new ink!
When big corporations say "we let them go" they probably are meaning it in the same way Arnold Schwarzeneggers Character in the movie "Commando" (1985) meant it, when he was asked what he did with sully. "What you do with Sully?" "I let him go."
There are actually important legal differences between letting go/laying off and firing. Firing means the person was terminated from their contract due to performance, I.e. it was the employee's fault. While laying off is deemed no fault of the employee and is essentially the company admitting fault. This has some major implications on job searches and for getting unemployment benefits. Being fired looks bad while being laid off looks about the same as quitting. t. Someone who was laid off about 3 weeks ago
Funny how the real life thing Jingles talks about resembles dystopian cyberpunk science fiction more than the footage of the dystopian cyberpunk science fiction game playing in the background.
Jingles - FFS get yourself a mono laser printer if all you're doing is printing bank documents. The cartridge in those will last you years and not gum up with lack of use. I've had mine for five years and it gets used for much the same reason; still on the original toner!
Printers: under the circumstances you're describing, I'd blame the printer manufacturers less than your own ignorance. News flash: You don't have to own or use an inkjet printer to print. The manufacturers all make other kinds. If a customer came to my computer repair shop and told me that their printing needs were for a few documents a year and they used the scanner a lot, I'd immediately recommend that they buy an All-in-One laser printer. Laser printers (just a name, no actual lasers are involved) use a powder called toner instead of ink. And since it's a powder, it's already dry and so never causes a problem due to shelf life. Toner is more expensive than ink per cartridge, but one will print on average between 2,500 to 3,000 pages of text before needing to be replaced. Laser printers come in two flavors. Black and white only, or color. Black and white would probably do just fine since all you use your printer for is a few non-photographic documents. And B&W laser printers are fairly cheap compared to the color ones. Color laser printers aren't very good at photographs; they prefer simple color schemes like colored text. That's where inkjets are much better to own. But if you don't print photos, then a B&W laser printer is going to be an investment that you probably will thank yourself for making because a single toner cartridge will easily last you for years.
10:22 Btw, they way Apple wants to make sure you actually pay what according to them you you them, they require you to give them access to your entire bookkeeping.
Yep. And if an HP printer cartridges firmware can somehow infect the computer it's attached to, that simply points out how horridly insecure HP's printer firmware must be in the first place. Neither cartridge OR printer firmware should EVER BE ABLE to to run any executable or upload any data to the computer itself that is not sandboxed by it's function! If their printer firmware is that insecure, how is it proof against wireless directed attacks? Wow. lol Good episode. Thanks
If I may, don't buy a color printer when you hardly ever need to print anything. A B&W printer will do nicely in most cases. And if you get the option to buy a B&W laserprinter, then do so. Toner cartridges don't dry out. There can be problems with those too, but rarely do those problems develope from sitting still in your home. And for modest home use, it could be years before you need to replace the first toner cartridge. They may be a bit more expensive up front, but they aren't in the long run. Lexmark makes good quality printers (formerly the manufacturer of IBM peripherals), though the cartridges are expensive. Brother makes a decent printer too, and the prices aren't too crazy. They haven't lowered themselves to the depths of HP, yet. And they have all-in-ones. I previously had a Konica Minolta B&W laserprinter, that lasted me for 20 years.
My son graduated from the University of Baltimore with his BS in Simulation and Game Development last May (2023), just in time for the big wave of layoffs. He's wanted to make games his whole life. It's been a rough job hunt for him. He's been hunting for some other kind of development gig since but the tech layoffs haven't helped there.
A Monday would be horrible without a good Mingle with my gnome friend Jingles. His encounters with the corporate entities mirror my own, the only way to come out ahead is to boycott them altogether. You miss out on their new stuff but we were able to get along without it for all of human history so how vital is it , really? Whatever the product is, it's just a more convenient way to do something we already know how to do. Enough monkey foolishness. The main question is, are you providing those precious furry Mistresses with adequate scritches and treats? If not, get cracking. If so, keep it up. You and Rita have a great day too. 🐈🐈⬛👑✌️🖖
printer ink: 600 to 1200 Rand... (or 30 to 60 dollars)... 3d printer PLA filament 1kg roll 300 Rand... I can 3d print my tax documents cheaper... but as an added bonus! when its not tax season I can 3d print miniatures, keyhooks, oddities, "items", on a 3d printer that just works... That being said I have heard some 3d printer manufacturers now also installing chips into filament spools... charging 10 times the price for their sub par printers and 20 times the price for their sub par filament...
Actually, sorry for the double post... But vague memory from when I used to work as a 3d printer salesman and repairman... I'm pretty sure they also said "gotta use our chipped rolls or you'll get viruses." Viruses?! on a machine that is just a few stepper motors and a heating element?! With a teeny chip that only reads "x to 5, x to 20, x to 3" and nothing else... Viruses? Next you'll tell me my kettle is going to get a virus and boil my water incorrectly! But also people figured out pretty fast they could just hack the chip themselves easily... put in the chip and empty roll... then drill a hole into the casing and feed 3rd party filament in with no issues...
Imagine the game of "Hot Potato" which would ensue if I sent a letter to both Amazon and HP, claiming my PC was infected by a printer chip virus after I installed a cartridge from Amazon Basics 🤣
Correction: End stage CORPORATISM. Private ownership of a business doesn't mean having a greedy board of directors sucking customers dry. I will admit it can happen, but these people can lobby the government to use regulations to squeeze out their competitors. A smaller business can't do that. Make corporate lobbying illegal, prune back government regs to just common sense ones that make actually punishes bad decisions and prevents monopolies and get the eff out of the owners business
It has very little to do with capitalism and everything to do with people incapable to understand simple thing - "You vote with your wallet". Don't like it = don't buy it. You subsidize behavior of companies. If it's digital, you don't even need a competition, pirate it. Capitalism means free market. It doesn't mean someone will guard you from being stupid. ("you" as every individual, not you personally.)
If you want to avoid the HP printer consumables scam my trick is to buy a heritage printer second hand on ebay etc and so long as you buy a product that was shipped before HP started being quite so predatory and you can use 3rd party consumables. I have a HP1320N which is a monochrome duplex A4 network printer intended for office use and widely used in that role. This takes 3rd party toner cartridges which can be bought online for as little as £10 and each one lasts 'ages' depending on how much printing you do of course! From a quality point of view I cannot distinguish between this printer and the contemporary models used in my day job.
I’ve been using a hp 5510 printer with 3rd party cartridges for a decade. The only thing troubles me is I need to run the cleaning program once a while.
On the same day as Apple, Epic also sued Google for the same thing. They knew what was going to happen, and had prepared all of their material and was ready for the next steps. Frankly I don't agree with it; if you want to sell on Apple or Googles platforms, you must abide by their terms. Epic were just being typically greedy and wanted a bigger slice of the pie.
It is a situation where one set of assholes decides to sue another set of assholes because they don’t like the way the other set of assholes do business. There aren’t any “good guys” involved, and the customers are the ones who end up paying for it.
Been using a Brother laserjet with scanner for several years now and am happy to not be paying HP any money although somehow I probably am. Their stance as far as I have seen is, "We won't block you using 3rd party ink but do recommend ours as a known quality." I haven't changed the toner cartridge in years and it just scanned the other day too. And no better time to jump over from WoW and give XIV another try.
Seems Jingles watched Luis Rossman channel lately and got some inspiration :) BTW same thing with company I work for. Makes quartal numbers that are simply silly and higher than ever for that company and then says we missed our target so we can't do this and that and no salary bumps.
Worked as QA, been let go as well from a company under the stupid umbrella of Embracer. Not enough profit means more than 1/3th of the company suddenly became not so important. The whole industry is slamming into the wall after the covid bubble burst.
My god, that thing about the printer ink chips reminds me of that episode of The IT Crowd where they tell Jen - who’s a bit of a technophobe - that a small, black, hollow box with a red light on it is “the internet” expecting her to get ripped to piss when she presents it. But then everyone else there actually believes the lie as well. Except Jen in this case is HP’s legal practitioner lol.
Never buy multi-function appliances, if one function breaks all functions break. I bought a standalone Epson scanner in 1999 and it still works on my Mac.
I switched to laser printers years ago and I will never buy another inkjet printer in my life. Once you experience the joy of a printer that just works when you hit 'Print', even after months of printing nothing at all, you will never want to go back.
Jingles, about the EU making Apple allow other charging cables and they being maliciously complying - the story is a bit longer than that. The EU smacked Apple around with a few fines before they said "fine, we'll allow them to use 3rd party cables but we're throttling the charging speed". Trouble is EU found out about that maliciousness and smacked them around a few more times for doing it. EU may suck...but every so often, once every blue moon or so, they have a good idea.
The sad thing is that the old, actual, "real" HP was an amazing company. The founders were good engineers and apparently reasonably nice people and they were not just making consumer crap, they were one of the foremost makers of high tech lab equipment and advanced electronic components.
agreed, I mean half of iphones used to be made by Samsung who make very good android phones. Nowadays while it isn't Samsung components it is still 3rd party manufacturers going into an iphone while 90% of components in a samsung phone is still Samsung. Basically you are paying a premium for a brand...which in all intents and purposes are inferior to other products on the market.
When I start my game company, there will be a max of (around ) 100 people and the CEO can only make 100k. Any bonuses made cannot exceed the yearly salary. Use the profit to help the company and the employees.
11:25 Don't forget apps which people make literally just because they want to in their free time and then give them away for free with absolutely no monetisation. They would also technically need to pay Apple a monthly fee.
Ink printers shouldn't be allowed to be manufactured anymore. The ink is usually crap anyway, aftermarket inks have all manner of quality and reliability problems, and when they use them, customers think they're going to get a 128AUD print head/carriage assembly for free under warranty? All the electrostatic systems I work with, though, seem to take Katun cartridges quite happily... ink systems really seem to have no real use any more.
I thought about linking you the video about the sacking of those employess, I saw this weekend Jingles. From a channel which also provides content from world of warcraft in general
Good that I use a Canon Printer now :).... Hahaha.... Once had a HP Printer and had the same " Problems ". Now I using one from Canon and it´s so much " cheaper ". A all in one Printer cost around 50 Euro and an Inkpod. Cost Max 30 Euro , if you buy the big Box with both in it. I mean Black and Color.
You might also consider "My computer has no reason to communicate with that ink cartridge. If it can infect my computer it is because of shitty software in your printer failing to protect the host."
i was going to buy a printer a few years ago, the printer was relatively cheap with a refill but the refill would be just as much on its own f after that so i didnt bother
When your tech starts to tell you that its only compatible with other tech from the same manufacturer its time to find another provider of harware. For me the last time i even considered Apple products was 2010 when my girlfriend at the time could not add me in viber because i had an android. She literaly could not find my device alto i could find hers and her friend was able to find my device. Also we lived together at the time so this wasnt a case of her ghosting me. She was about 3 years late for that. Never buy overpriced garbage with a fancy logo and branding.
i learned that hp is a firm to avoid many years ago. Since i switched to laser printers i never regreted it. Somehow i have none of the problems with my canon laserprinter.
There are ink printers you can purchase that use ink tank reservoirs instead or cartridges, so you can store a lot more ink in them. Or you could get a laser printer which uses toner that is more expensive but doesn't dry out. Unless you absolutely must use an Apple product to do some kind of work, I don't see any benefit of using them over non-Apple devices. The intentionally designed to be restrictive platform does not benefit you, only Apple, so I don't use their products myself.
I do tech support for a living and printers are just like everything else in life: you get what you pay for. That said, HP is notoriously scummy and I have long since stopped recommending anything from them, especially after their takeover of the Samsung printer division (most HPs are rebadged Samsungs these days and not even the good Samsungs). If you're a home user, the choice is simple: if you need color, Epson Ecotank, if you need monochrome laser, Brother 27XX series. Anything else, you're better off going to a print shop and if you're a business, well, Ricoh is your friend.
I reloaded my printer ink cartridges for years. And don't buy the latest and greatest printer. Now buy a tank printer. There's no way on Earth I'll ever buy a subscription for a printer. No how. No way.
I'm hoping that by now you've realised you could buy a printer that uses toner instead of ink and have a lot less problems with it drying up. I bought my parents a combi scanner/printer that uses toner about 10 years ago now and I don't think we've ever had problems or even had to replace the toner yet (they print less than even you do to be fair) Pretty sure it's an Epson but can't remember what model. Likely not sold anymore anyway.
I like that you're showing Cyberpunk gameplay while talking about Evil Mega-Corporations.
😂 It's what gets the bills paid!
also love that Jingles believes ( hopes ?) he is still in the EU.. Because since Brexit, the UK is legally independent, ahem "strong and autonomous" and does not get most of the EU's legal protections (anymore)... so special terms and conditions apply on the North Side of the Channel.
"Oh no! The printer is out of ink. Time to buy a new printer."
I'd just buy printer that uses thermic paper.
Telegram?
Jingles, a couple of years ago, I took a chance on the Epson Eco Tank printer range. I wanted to be able to print A3/A3+ prints, I am a nature photographer. This range of printers is by far the best that I have ever had and I have had a few, including HP crap. To fill/refill inks is simplicity itself. Purchase either Epson ink or compatible ink and the results are near perfect. I am amazed at how little ink is used, even for an A3/A3+ print. Next time you need a reliable printer try Epson Eco Tank. You might be impressed.
I recommended the same printer to my mother in law. She really likes it too. After getting fed up with not being able to print because of one cartridge, I myself switched to a laser printer. Never going back to ink cartridge.
Fired employees being “let go” is like your parents saying the “let go” your old family dog at a farm.
And, of course, it suggests that their remaining employees are not being let go. i.e. slavery.
Mighty Jingles,
Next time instead of tossing the gummed up ink cartridge and buying a new one, take some isopropyl alcohol (the kind you buy in the drug store), wet a Q-Tip with it and clean the print head where the ink comes out.
The old dried up ink will dissolve, get picked up by the Q-Tip, wipe the ink head with a clean Q-Tip and the old ink cartridge should become usable again, providing there is still ink in it.
That's the thing though, there's barely any ink in them to begin with. It's not by accident either.
Use detergent diluted in warm water, not IPA.
@@mortluby1359 No do not, stop giving advice out when it's clear you haven't a clue what you talking about. detergent and water??? are you taking the piss???
The more I hear about modern corporate behavior the more it feels like the consumer needs to remind the execs they're not immune to the consequences of their actions.
I needed this today, thank you jingles
Jingles thank you for making youtube videos. your kind words relaxing voice and your adictive laugh makes my mood even better. Thank you Jingles 👍
I can't wait for the day where I rent my toilet from Amazon and get charged by mass and volume every time I use it.
Don't give them ideas.
😂
Jingles,
I used to work for HPE, Data Centers
While it was a decent paying job it was also a soul sucking existence. You're right about the cartridge system!
Have you seen the newer printers coming out called "Ecotanks"??? Refillable cartridges, but OMG the price of their ink, must have platinum/osmium dust in it!
Speaking of TANKS!
Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks has announced it's opening early access for Feb 6th! Cannot wait!
You played it, did a video, will you be doing more? Love to see more content!
At least in yours you didn't putz around on which camouflage looked better...
1:26 - I heard the actual number was closer to 7000 employees fired. Mainly staff from the QA Testers and Customer Support departments.
Because they don't want good customer service! They want us to just buy and be happy with whatever 💩 they are selling us. 😂
@@paulvamos7319 My money is that they will be replacing QA Testers and CS with AI. Because, of course they would.
As far as printers go, I have had great success with "brother" laser printers. Work great, last forever and you can use aftermarket refills if you want. Only downside is that color models are pricy.
And to top it off you're getting a laser printer which is far better than an ink-spitter. My color Brother laser printer was only $200, that isn't bad when you consider they aren't selling at a loss and that you aren't replacing gummed up cartridges every year.
Also with all printers when you are printing black & white make sure to click the box for B&W in the print dialog window, otherwise it will make black by combining color inks.
JINGLES ONCE AGAIN PROVIDING A FRIENDLY VOICE TO START OUR WEEK ❤
I used to buy Hewlett Packard printers back in the day when they had some of the first quality black laserjet printers but I ceased that when 2000 came around as there were many other printers and I found hp printers seemed to have paper feed problems frequently which required me to disassemble them to rough up the rollers inside which proved to be quite difficult.
I also gave up using inkjet printers for the very reason you say - the cartridges are way too expensive and they dry up. Laser is the only way to go and I have very successfully had a colour Dell printer for 20 years. No problems at all, and although Dell no longer sells printers and ink refills, the refills are readily available with few problems from third party sources. Even now, if this printer finally dies it would have been an excellent purchase for the number of years and the literally thousand and thousands of black and white, and colour pages I have printed with it - and it has never had paper feed troubles either! I looked recently to see if Dell still sells printers and sadly they gave up a few years ago to my sorrow!
So what would be a quality printer now? I don't know!
I just have a library card and use their printer on the rare occasions I need to print things these days. And I haven't actually had to do that since... 2021 I think.
I have never, and never will, buy anything from Apple. They are beyond rediculous.
I mean if you buy android instead you give your money and data to Google . An arguably even worse company for end users.
I will never buy anything Apple for myself or my friends and family because of how little I think of that company. If anyone buys me an Apple product, I will use it or I will sell it.
I've never bought anything from Apple but back when their products were actually good, I was getting an iPad for my birthday at discount because my mum had a friend who worked in an Apple store and my mum wanted to know if I'd rather have the iPad 1 on my birthday (about 13 years ago) or the iPad 2 a week later (because the iPad 2 hadn't actually been put on shelves yet). I asked for the iPad 1 because as far as I knew at the time, the iPad 2 was a slightly more compact iPad 1 that also had a camera.
I don't touch Apple, walked away from Samsung, won't even touch Sony. 30 years in tech teaches you what is a steaming turd of a product.
The last Apple product I used wasn't even Apple at the time, Macintosh in the late 80's in high school! Before the merge! 😂 Never actually used an Apple product. Never will either!
@@malvoleus What is good then lmao
I switched to a colour laser printer to make at least the cartridge drying up a non-factor. Doesn’t help with the underlying issue of printer manufacturers being pricks, but at least it saves me some money in the long run by not having to buy new ink after printing not often enough
Been using laser printers for decades now, and never had any problems with non-original cartridges. Nevermind the price/page being far lower than on any inkjet.
What really keeps me wondering is, that this extortion by the ink_jet manufacturers has not become common knowledge by now,
I think it is like many items these days - they look cheaper and people are scared by the higher initial prices of laser printers. I don't know how many people really consider long term costs any more. Buying things is all about the immediate price, it seems to me, these days as we live in a throw away society. Many products are also unserviceable and intentionally there are no parts with which to fix them.Apple even serialises key components that are not permitted to be sold by the large electronic components dealers. It is all about buy new and not permitting products to be fixed if they go wrong.
In the US, right to repair crusaders have been fighting mightily for legislation requiring products to be serviceable and repairable but it is a hard battle when lobby companies happily pay large sums of money to politician's campaign funds on behalf of manufacturers to prevent legislators supporting such laws. Some of the reasons stated by such lobby firms saying as you mentioned that someone might install a virus, or even Tik-Tok on your device while it is being fixed are not uncommon How much does the non-electronic geek know about such things given the average age of a politician? @@mynameiswritinwater
I was expecting Jingles to at least mention Palworld.
I've been seeing everyone else talk about so I thought for sure it would get a mention as current gaming news.
What is there to talk about?
For other reasons, I don't like huge equipment, back in 2015 when I decided I want a printer and a scanner, I went that way. I bought a separate flatbed scanner and printer. I have the printer in its box, out of the view unless I need it. The scanner takes so much less space, it is better looking, and I have no need for the printer to be around when all I want is scan things.
Though the last time I had a printer/scanner all in one was many years ago and I don't think I had such issues as you. Thankfully.
And yes, I haven't actually used either of them since 2015.
#110 from NZ. "Restructuring" is a nonpersonal way to say "YOU'RE FIRED!"
I remember getting stung by Epson on the whole nope , you can print black because your yellow cartridge is empty; or nope, you can't scan because you've got no ink. At that point I just started buying laser printers, usually second hand; and they lasted for YEARS, before needing new toner. Then I'd just find another used laser with some toner, for less than the price of toner for the old printer. Been doing that for about 15 years now.
I bought a HP printer about 12 years ago for A$35 (the cheapest one i could find) had limetet issues with 3rd party cartiges. Just bought id for the scaner, witch works still fine. Id did however use almost a full cartrige to print a low quality page.
So now wehn ever I need to print somthing I just go to the local liebrary and print it for 20 cents a page in high quality. So much more cheaper then keep buying new ink!
and this is why i am glad to have a tank printer, although the refillable cartridges were not bad either
HP8710 printer and scanner. No problem printing black with no colour cartridge. No problem scanning with no cartridges at all.
In terms of sugarcoating the verbal expression for axing jobs, I still treasure "get promoted to customer" the most.
Old man throws soapbox on the ground... "Let's do this!".
When big corporations say "we let them go" they probably are meaning it in the same way Arnold Schwarzeneggers Character in the movie "Commando" (1985) meant it, when he was asked what he did with sully.
"What you do with Sully?"
"I let him go."
There are actually important legal differences between letting go/laying off and firing. Firing means the person was terminated from their contract due to performance, I.e. it was the employee's fault. While laying off is deemed no fault of the employee and is essentially the company admitting fault. This has some major implications on job searches and for getting unemployment benefits. Being fired looks bad while being laid off looks about the same as quitting.
t. Someone who was laid off about 3 weeks ago
Thanks Mighty Jingles for making me thoroughly depressed on a Monday talking about greedy corporations doing despicable things.
Our office printers charge a small fee on each scan/print.
But the toner is fairly cheap in comparison.
Funny how the real life thing Jingles talks about resembles dystopian cyberpunk science fiction more than the footage of the dystopian cyberpunk science fiction game playing in the background.
N-64: Goldeneye was (and is , if you still have it) Incredible! Copiers? Use it, then when ink runs out, toss it. Much cheaper this way.
Switched to Epsom, saving tons on ink. Don’t know why I didn’t switch sooner.
Jingles - FFS get yourself a mono laser printer if all you're doing is printing bank documents. The cartridge in those will last you years and not gum up with lack of use. I've had mine for five years and it gets used for much the same reason; still on the original toner!
go colour laser mate... same as above but better :-)
I have had mine for over 10 years. On my fourth cartridge.
10 years he been complaining of printers. He is an old man stuck in his ways
@@TrickiVicBB71 and that's why we love him!
Printers: under the circumstances you're describing, I'd blame the printer manufacturers less than your own ignorance. News flash: You don't have to own or use an inkjet printer to print. The manufacturers all make other kinds. If a customer came to my computer repair shop and told me that their printing needs were for a few documents a year and they used the scanner a lot, I'd immediately recommend that they buy an All-in-One laser printer. Laser printers (just a name, no actual lasers are involved) use a powder called toner instead of ink. And since it's a powder, it's already dry and so never causes a problem due to shelf life. Toner is more expensive than ink per cartridge, but one will print on average between 2,500 to 3,000 pages of text before needing to be replaced.
Laser printers come in two flavors. Black and white only, or color. Black and white would probably do just fine since all you use your printer for is a few non-photographic documents. And B&W laser printers are fairly cheap compared to the color ones.
Color laser printers aren't very good at photographs; they prefer simple color schemes like colored text. That's where inkjets are much better to own. But if you don't print photos, then a B&W laser printer is going to be an investment that you probably will thank yourself for making because a single toner cartridge will easily last you for years.
10:22 Btw, they way Apple wants to make sure you actually pay what according to them you you them, they require you to give them access to your entire bookkeeping.
Hello Jingles, if you ever consider playing BG3 you HAVE to play Rock Gnome, if only because they get racial bonus of Expertise in history.
Yep. And if an HP printer cartridges firmware can somehow infect the computer it's attached to, that simply points out how horridly insecure HP's printer firmware must be in the first place. Neither cartridge OR printer firmware should EVER BE ABLE to to run any executable or upload any data to the computer itself that is not sandboxed by it's function!
If their printer firmware is that insecure, how is it proof against wireless directed attacks?
Wow. lol
Good episode. Thanks
If I may, don't buy a color printer when you hardly ever need to print anything. A B&W printer will do nicely in most cases. And if you get the option to buy a B&W laserprinter, then do so. Toner cartridges don't dry out. There can be problems with those too, but rarely do those problems develope from sitting still in your home. And for modest home use, it could be years before you need to replace the first toner cartridge. They may be a bit more expensive up front, but they aren't in the long run. Lexmark makes good quality printers (formerly the manufacturer of IBM peripherals), though the cartridges are expensive. Brother makes a decent printer too, and the prices aren't too crazy. They haven't lowered themselves to the depths of HP, yet. And they have all-in-ones. I previously had a Konica Minolta B&W laserprinter, that lasted me for 20 years.
Time to build my own printer-scanner.... and produce my own ink-cartridges...
Exactly how hard can it be?... lol
20:46 Don't give them any more ideas, Jingles. We dont need another Apple
Get into the trades, youngins.
My son graduated from the University of Baltimore with his BS in Simulation and Game Development last May (2023), just in time for the big wave of layoffs. He's wanted to make games his whole life. It's been a rough job hunt for him. He's been hunting for some other kind of development gig since but the tech layoffs haven't helped there.
Recent video that describes what jingles is saying about printers- Vape-o-nomics: Why Everything is Addictive Now
A Monday would be horrible without a good Mingle with my gnome friend Jingles.
His encounters with the corporate entities mirror my own, the only way to come out ahead is to boycott them altogether. You miss out on their new stuff but we were able to get along without it for all of human history so how vital is it , really?
Whatever the product is, it's just a more convenient way to do something we already know how to do.
Enough monkey foolishness. The main question is, are you providing those precious furry Mistresses with adequate scritches and treats? If not, get cracking. If so, keep it up.
You and Rita have a great day too.
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printer ink: 600 to 1200 Rand... (or 30 to 60 dollars)... 3d printer PLA filament 1kg roll 300 Rand... I can 3d print my tax documents cheaper... but as an added bonus! when its not tax season I can 3d print miniatures, keyhooks, oddities, "items", on a 3d printer that just works... That being said I have heard some 3d printer manufacturers now also installing chips into filament spools... charging 10 times the price for their sub par printers and 20 times the price for their sub par filament...
Actually, sorry for the double post... But vague memory from when I used to work as a 3d printer salesman and repairman... I'm pretty sure they also said "gotta use our chipped rolls or you'll get viruses." Viruses?! on a machine that is just a few stepper motors and a heating element?! With a teeny chip that only reads "x to 5, x to 20, x to 3" and nothing else... Viruses? Next you'll tell me my kettle is going to get a virus and boil my water incorrectly!
But also people figured out pretty fast they could just hack the chip themselves easily... put in the chip and empty roll... then drill a hole into the casing and feed 3rd party filament in with no issues...
LOL....loving the hard, non-existing H in Packard..... sounds like you are saying Pack Hard.
Imagine the game of "Hot Potato" which would ensue if I sent a letter to both Amazon and HP, claiming my PC was infected by a printer chip virus after I installed a cartridge from Amazon Basics 🤣
This week on "Everyone Wants Your Money" with Rear Admiral Jingles...
Well, what's the odds? You mention "They Live" and it's on Sky Mix this Saturday (3rd February) 9.00pm.
In this episode of Mingles with Jingles we discuss end-stage capitalism.
Correction: End stage CORPORATISM. Private ownership of a business doesn't mean having a greedy board of directors sucking customers dry. I will admit it can happen, but these people can lobby the government to use regulations to squeeze out their competitors. A smaller business can't do that. Make corporate lobbying illegal, prune back government regs to just common sense ones that make actually punishes bad decisions and prevents monopolies and get the eff out of the owners business
@@joshpetersen5968 Good idea. But good luck getting that passed in the countries that need it the most (e.g., the US).
@@davidsmith8997 Don't I know it. The big Corporations have their hooks too deep in the politicians.
It has very little to do with capitalism and everything to do with people incapable to understand simple thing - "You vote with your wallet". Don't like it = don't buy it. You subsidize behavior of companies. If it's digital, you don't even need a competition, pirate it. Capitalism means free market. It doesn't mean someone will guard you from being stupid. ("you" as every individual, not you personally.)
bud, this is not capitalism!
This is feudalism!
If you want to avoid the HP printer consumables scam my trick is to buy a heritage printer second hand on ebay etc and so long as you buy a product that was shipped before HP started being quite so predatory and you can use 3rd party consumables. I have a HP1320N which is a monochrome duplex A4 network printer intended for office use and widely used in that role. This takes 3rd party toner cartridges which can be bought online for as little as £10 and each one lasts 'ages' depending on how much printing you do of course! From a quality point of view I cannot distinguish between this printer and the contemporary models used in my day job.
😄 This is why our family is anti-Apple. Apple is like a luxury car you can only drive on 25% of the roads.
I’ve been using a hp 5510 printer with 3rd party cartridges for a decade. The only thing troubles me is I need to run the cleaning program once a while.
On the same day as Apple, Epic also sued Google for the same thing. They knew what was going to happen, and had prepared all of their material and was ready for the next steps.
Frankly I don't agree with it; if you want to sell on Apple or Googles platforms, you must abide by their terms. Epic were just being typically greedy and wanted a bigger slice of the pie.
It is a situation where one set of assholes decides to sue another set of assholes because they don’t like the way the other set of assholes do business. There aren’t any “good guys” involved, and the customers are the ones who end up paying for it.
I like classics. I belive Shakespear said "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". I second that motion.
Been using a Brother laserjet with scanner for several years now and am happy to not be paying HP any money although somehow I probably am. Their stance as far as I have seen is, "We won't block you using 3rd party ink but do recommend ours as a known quality." I haven't changed the toner cartridge in years and it just scanned the other day too.
And no better time to jump over from WoW and give XIV another try.
Seems Jingles watched Luis Rossman channel lately and got some inspiration :) BTW same thing with company I work for. Makes quartal numbers that are simply silly and higher than ever for that company and then says we missed our target so we can't do this and that and no salary bumps.
Worked as QA, been let go as well from a company under the stupid umbrella of Embracer. Not enough profit means more than 1/3th of the company suddenly became not so important. The whole industry is slamming into the wall after the covid bubble burst.
My god, that thing about the printer ink chips reminds me of that episode of The IT Crowd where they tell Jen - who’s a bit of a technophobe - that a small, black, hollow box with a red light on it is “the internet” expecting her to get ripped to piss when she presents it.
But then everyone else there actually believes the lie as well.
Except Jen in this case is HP’s legal practitioner lol.
Never buy multi-function appliances, if one function breaks all functions break.
I bought a standalone Epson scanner in 1999 and it still works on my Mac.
Profit is profit and more than likely they are removing duplications in roles as they merge business teams
HP & Toner cartridges; their brand new laser printers were shipped with 1 toner cartridge, said cartridge only had 25% of its nominal toner capacity,
May I suggest an Epson eco tank printer. I am a very light user but 2 years later I'm still to refill the tanks and no issues with dryed up ink
I switched to laser printers years ago and I will never buy another inkjet printer in my life. Once you experience the joy of a printer that just works when you hit 'Print', even after months of printing nothing at all, you will never want to go back.
USB-C adapter - $15. Apple Lightning adapter - $65.
Printer ink:
Only $9,000 per gallon!
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Jingles, about the EU making Apple allow other charging cables and they being maliciously complying - the story is a bit longer than that.
The EU smacked Apple around with a few fines before they said "fine, we'll allow them to use 3rd party cables but we're throttling the charging speed". Trouble is EU found out about that maliciousness and smacked them around a few more times for doing it. EU may suck...but every so often, once every blue moon or so, they have a good idea.
The sad thing is that the old, actual, "real" HP was an amazing company. The founders were good engineers and apparently reasonably nice people and they were not just making consumer crap, they were one of the foremost makers of high tech lab equipment and advanced electronic components.
The secret is off brand ink cartridges.
I never bought a single Apple product, probably never will.
agreed, I mean half of iphones used to be made by Samsung who make very good android phones. Nowadays while it isn't Samsung components it is still 3rd party manufacturers going into an iphone while 90% of components in a samsung phone is still Samsung.
Basically you are paying a premium for a brand...which in all intents and purposes are inferior to other products on the market.
@@shanklinkayAnd they charge an arm and leg for the product and service!😢 Apple sucks!
@paulvamos7319 true. Everything has to go through their apple store and they charge for it. I can download songs and apk's for my android for free.
No Palworld in the gaming news. For shame Jingles.
Are we going to see you play "Pokemon with guns?"
When I start my game company, there will be a max of (around ) 100 people and the CEO can only make 100k. Any bonuses made cannot exceed the yearly salary. Use the profit to help the company and the employees.
Yay time for mingles
11:25 Don't forget apps which people make literally just because they want to in their free time and then give them away for free with absolutely no monetisation.
They would also technically need to pay Apple a monthly fee.
Did you just Smartgun an innocent dancer in that club?
I think he did
Monday blues, blue news, monday blues got bad news for the already blues
Ink printers shouldn't be allowed to be manufactured anymore. The ink is usually crap anyway, aftermarket inks have all manner of quality and reliability problems, and when they use them, customers think they're going to get a 128AUD print head/carriage assembly for free under warranty?
All the electrostatic systems I work with, though, seem to take Katun cartridges quite happily... ink systems really seem to have no real use any more.
Like BMW you buy a car with heated seats but you can’t use it unless you buy the the subscription
Matey, there is a workaround about it. Move the chip 50% working. Romanian (East European) style
Funny that you are playing cyberpunk while talking about this subject. So i ask:
WHERE IS JOHNNY SILVERHAND WHEN YOU NEED HIM?!
These are one of the many many reasons why when I’m eligible for an upgrade on my cellphone I will never go back to Apple.
I thought about linking you the video about the sacking of those employess, I saw this weekend Jingles. From a channel which also provides content from world of warcraft in general
Good that I use a Canon Printer now :).... Hahaha.... Once had a HP Printer and had the same " Problems ". Now I using one from Canon and it´s so much " cheaper ". A all in one Printer cost around 50 Euro and an Inkpod. Cost Max 30 Euro , if you buy the big Box with both in it. I mean Black and Color.
99% sure jingles charging cable storey is 🐄💩. I work at an independent reseller with a full service department…
You might also consider "My computer has no reason to communicate with that ink cartridge. If it can infect my computer it is because of shitty software in your printer failing to protect the host."
i was going to buy a printer a few years ago, the printer was relatively cheap with a refill but the refill would be just as much on its own f after that so i didnt bother
When your tech starts to tell you that its only compatible with other tech from the same manufacturer its time to find another provider of harware. For me the last time i even considered Apple products was 2010 when my girlfriend at the time could not add me in viber because i had an android. She literaly could not find my device alto i could find hers and her friend was able to find my device. Also we lived together at the time so this wasnt a case of her ghosting me. She was about 3 years late for that. Never buy overpriced garbage with a fancy logo and branding.
Epic's tactic of setting up a shop inside a competitor's, extremely famous for being a "walled garden" was both profoundly malicious and parasitic.
i learned that hp is a firm to avoid many years ago. Since i switched to laser printers i never regreted it. Somehow i have none of the problems with my canon laserprinter.
pack-ARD vs pack-ERD. god damn I love our language and its dialects and accents.
Steam also takes 30% 😊
That love of money problem again
There are ink printers you can purchase that use ink tank reservoirs instead or cartridges, so you can store a lot more ink in them. Or you could get a laser printer which uses toner that is more expensive but doesn't dry out. Unless you absolutely must use an Apple product to do some kind of work, I don't see any benefit of using them over non-Apple devices. The intentionally designed to be restrictive platform does not benefit you, only Apple, so I don't use their products myself.
I do tech support for a living and printers are just like everything else in life: you get what you pay for. That said, HP is notoriously scummy and I have long since stopped recommending anything from them, especially after their takeover of the Samsung printer division (most HPs are rebadged Samsungs these days and not even the good Samsungs).
If you're a home user, the choice is simple: if you need color, Epson Ecotank, if you need monochrome laser, Brother 27XX series. Anything else, you're better off going to a print shop and if you're a business, well, Ricoh is your friend.
As soon as I could drop Apple, I did and never looked back
I reloaded my printer ink cartridges for years. And don't buy the latest and greatest printer. Now buy a tank printer. There's no way on Earth I'll ever buy a subscription for a printer. No how. No way.
„Succeded here in the EU“ no One Tell the old man, he will be heartbroken.
Jingles, if you only print once a year, wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to print at a library or a print shop?
Exactly my thoughts. That costs a few cents per page.
I'm hoping that by now you've realised you could buy a printer that uses toner instead of ink and have a lot less problems with it drying up. I bought my parents a combi scanner/printer that uses toner about 10 years ago now and I don't think we've ever had problems or even had to replace the toner yet (they print less than even you do to be fair)
Pretty sure it's an Epson but can't remember what model. Likely not sold anymore anyway.