#hp printer software

[verved]

something very funny but endearing to me in fanon is when people have the androids be usb-compatible. just update their drivers w a usb dongle.

now would usb still exist in 2038? undoubtedly. but we all know that cyberlife would come up with some bullshit proprietary wire for interfacing with their tech.

[slobble-ya-diddly]

There's nothing like trying to get an old printer working to put the fear of god into you.........

[adulthumanproblem]

I actually got my printer to print again??

And all it took was washing out the ink cartridge because the ink had gotten all gunky

The black is very light now because of residual water, but hey. Printing!

Will make stamp making easier

[mostlysignssomeportents]

A sexy, skinny defeat device for your HP ink cartridge

Animals keep evolving into crabs; it's a process called "carcinisation" and it's pretty weird. Crabs just turn out to be extremely evolutionarily fit for our current environment:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-animals-keep-evolving-into-crabs/

By the same token, all kinds of business keep evolving into something like a printer company. It turns out that in this enshittified, poorly regulated, rentier-friendly world, the parasitic, inkjet business model is extremely adaptive. Printerinisation is everywhere.

All that stuff you hate about your car? Trapping you into using their mechanics, spying on you, planned obsolescence? All lifted from the inkjet printer business model:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

That GE fridge that won't make ice or dispense water unless you spend $50 for a proprietary charcoal filter instead of using a $10 generic? Pure printerism:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/12/digital-feudalism/#filtergate

The software update to your Sonos speakers that makes them half as useful and takes away your right to play your stored music, forcing you to buy streaming music subscriptions? Straight out of the HP playbook:

https://www.wired.com/story/sonos-admits-its-recent-app-update-was-a-colossal-mistake/

But as printerinized as all these gadgets are, none can quite attain the level of high enshittification that the OG inkjet bastards attain on a daily basis. In the world championships of effortlessly authentic fuckery, no one can lay a glove on the sociopathic monsters of HP.

For example: when HP wanted to soften us all up for a new world of "subscription ink" (where you have to pre-pay every month for a certain number of pages' worth of printing, which your printer enforces by spying on you and ratting you out to HP over the internet), they offered a "lifetime subscription" plan. With this "lifetime" plan, you paid just once and your HP printer would print out 15 pages a month for so long as you owned your printer, with HP shipping you new ink every time you ran low.

Well, eventually, HP got bored of not making you pay rent on your own fucking printer, so they just turned that plan off. Yeah, it was a lifetime plan, but the "lifetime" in question was the lifetime of HP's patience for not fucking you over, and that patience has the longevity of a mayfly:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/06/horrible-products/#inkwars

It would take many pages to list all of HP's sins here. This is a company that ships printers with half-full ink cartridges and charges more than the printer cost to buy a replacement set. The company that won't let you print a black-and-white page if you're out of yellow ink. The company that won't let you scan or send a fax if you're out of any of your ink.

They make you "recalibrate" your printer or "clean your heads" by forcing you to print sheets of ink-dense paper. They also refuse to let you use your ink cartridges after they "expire."

HP raised the price of ink to over $10,000 per gallon, then went to war against third-party ink cartridge makers, cartridge remanufacturers, and cartridge refillers. They added "security chips" to their cartridges whose job was to watch the ink levels in your cartridge and, when they dip below a certain level (long before the cartridge is actually empty), declare the cartridge to be dry and permanently out of use.

Even if you refill that cartridge, it will still declare itself to be empty to your printer, which will therefore refuse to print.

Third party ink companies have options here. One thing they could do is reverse-engineer the security chip, and make compatible ones that say, "Actually, I'm full." The problem with this is that laws like Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) potentially makes this into a felony punishable by a five-year prison sentence and a $500k fine, for a first offense.

DMCA 1201 bans bypassing "an effective means of access control" to a copyrighted work. So if HP writes a copyrighted "I'm empty" program for its security chip and then adds some kind of access restriction to prevent you from dumping and reverse-engineering that program, you can end up a felon, thanks to the DMCA.

Another countermove is to harvest security chips out of dead cartridges that have been sent overseas as e-waste (one consequence of HP's $10,000/gallon ink racket is that it generates mountains of immortal, toxic e-waste that mostly ends up poisoning poor countries in the global south). These can be integrated into new cartridges, or remanufactured ones.

In practice, ink companies do all of this and more, and total normie HP printer owners go to extremely improbable lengths to find third party ink cartridges and figure out how to use them. It turns out that even people who find technology tinkering intimidating or confusing or dull can be motivated to learn and practice a lot of esoteric tech stuff as an alternative to paying $10,000/gallon for colored water.

HP has lots of countermoves for this. One truly unhinged piece of fuckery is to ask Customs and Border Patrol to block third-party ink cartridges with genuine HP security chips that have been pried loose from e-waste shipments. HP claims that these are "counterfeits" (because they were removed and re-used without permission), even though they came out of real HP cartridges, and CBP takes them at their word, seizing shipments.

Even sleazier: HP pushes out fake security updates to its printers. You get a message telling you there's an urgent security update, you click OK, and your printer shows you a downloading/installing progress bar and reboots itself. As far as you can tell, nothing has changed. But these aren't "security" updates, they're updates that block third-party ink, and HP has designed them not to kick in for several months. That way, HP owners who get tricked into installing this downgrade don't raise hell online and warn everyone else until they've installed it too, and it's too late:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer

This is the infectious pathogen business model: one reason covid spread so quickly was that people were infectious before they developed symptoms. That meant that the virus could spread before the spreader knew they had it. By adding a long fuse to its logic bomb, HP greatly increases the spread of its malware.

But life finds a way. $10,000/gallon ink is an irresistible target for tinkerers, security researchers and competitors. Necessity may be the mother of invention, but the true parent of jaw-dropping ingenuity is callous, sadistic greed. That's why America's army of prisoners are the source of so many of the most beautiful and exciting forms of innovation seen today:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/09/king-rat/#mother-of-invention

Despite harsh legal penalties and the vast resources of HP, third-party ink continues to thrive, and every time HP figures out how to block one technique, three even cooler ones pop up.

Last week, Jay Summet published a video tearing down a third-party ink cartridge compatible with an HP 61XL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ya184uaTE

The third-party cartridge has what appears to be a genuine HP security chip, but it is overlaid with a paper-thin, flexible, adhesive-backed circuit board that is skinny enough that the cartridge still fits in an HP printer.

This flexible circuit board has its own little microchip. Summet theorizes that it is designed to pass the "are you a real HP cartridge" challenge pass to the security chip, but to block the followup "are you empty or full?" message. When the printer issues that challenge, the "man in the middle" chip answers, "Oh, I'm definitely full."

In their writeup, Hackaday identifies the chip as "a single IC in a QFN package." This is just so clever and delightful:

https://hackaday.com/2024/09/28/man-in-the-middle-pcb-unlocks-hp-ink-cartridges/

Hackaday also notes that HP CEO Enrique J Lores recently threatened to brick any printer discovered to be using third-party ink:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/hp-ceo-blocking-third-party-ink-from-printers-fights-viruses/

As William Gibson famously quipped, "the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed." As our enshittification-rich environment drives more and more companies to evolve into rent-seeking enterprises through printerinisation, HP offers us a glimpse of the horrors of the late enshittocene.

It's just as Orwell prophesied: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a HP installing malware on your printer to force you to spend $10,000/gallon on ink – forever."

Tor Books as just published two new, free LITTLE BROTHER stories: VIGILANT, about creepy surveillance in distance education; and SPILL, about oil pipelines and indigenous landback.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/30/life-finds-a-way/#ink-stained-wretches

Image: Jay Summet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ya184uaTE

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[ailelie]

Installing Linux (Mint) as a Non-Techy Person

I've wanted Linux for various reasons since college. I tried it once when I no longer had to worry about having specific programs for school, but it did not go well. It was a dedicated PC that was, I believe, poorly made. Anyway.

In the process of deGoogling and deWindows365'ing, I started to think about Linux again. Here is my experience.

Pre-Work: Take Stock

List out the programs you use regularly and those you need. Look up whether or not they work on Linux. For those that don't, look up alternatives.

If the alternative works on Windows/Mac, try it out first.

Make sure you have your files backed up somewhere.

Also, pick up a 5GB minimum USB drive.

Oh and make a system restore point (look it up in your Start menu) and back-up your files.

Step One: Choose a Distro

Dear god do Linux people like to talk about distros. Basically, from what all I've read, if you don't want to fuss a lot with your OS, you've got two options: Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Ubuntu is better known and run by a company called Canonical. Linux Mint is run by a small team and paid for via donations.

I chose Linux Mint. Some of the stuff I read about Ubuntu reminded me too much of my reasons for wanting to leave Windows, basically. Did I second-guess this a half-dozen times? Yes, yes I did.

The rest of this is true for Linux Mint Cinnamon only.

Step Two: Make your Flash Drive

Linux Mint has great instructions. For the most part they work.

Start here:

The trickiest part of creating the flash drive is verifying and authenticating it.

On the same page that you download the Linux .iso file there are two links. Right click+save as both of those files to your computer. I saved them and the .iso file all to my Downloads folder.

Then, once you get to the 'Verify your ISO image' page in their guide and you're on Windows like me, skip down to this link about verifying on Windows.

Once it is verified, you can go back to the Linux Mint guide. They'll direct you to download Etchr and use that to create your flash drive.

If this step is too tricky, then please reconsider Linux. Subsequent steps are both easier and trickier.

Step Three: Restart from your Flash Drive

This is the step where I nearly gave up. The guide is still great, except it doesn't mention certain security features that make installing Linux Mint impossible without extra steps.

(1) Look up your Bitlocker recovery key and have it handy.

I don't know if you'll need it like I did (I did not turn off Bitlocker at first), but better to be safe.

(2) Turn off Bitlocker.

(3) Restart. When on the title screen, press your Bios key. There might be more than one. On a Lenovo, pressing F1 several times gets you to the relevant menu. This is not the menu you'll need to install, though. Turn off "Secure Boot."

(4) Restart. This time press F12 (on a Lenovo). The HDD option, iirc, is your USB. Look it up on your phone to be sure.

Now you can return to the Linux Mint instructions.

Figuring this out via trial-and-error was not fun.

Step Four: Install Mint

Just follow the prompts. I chose to do the dual boot.

You will have to click through some scary messages about irrevocable changes. This is your last chance to change your mind.

I chose the dual boot because I may not have anticipated everything I'll need from Windows. My goal is to work primarily in Linux. Then, in a few months, if it is working, I'll look up the steps for making my machine Linux only.

Some Notes on Linux Mint

Some of the minor things I looked up ahead of time and other miscellany:

(1) HP Printers supposedly play nice with Linux. I have not tested this yet.

(2) Linux Mint can easily access your Windows files. I've read that this does not go both ways. I've not tested it yet.

(3) You can move the taskbar (panel in LM) to the left side of your screen.

(4) You are going to have to download your key programs again.

(5) The LM software manager has most programs, but not all. Some you'll have to download from websites. Follow instructions. If a file leads to a scary wall of strange text, close it and just do the Terminal instructions instead.

(6) The software manager also has fonts. I was able to get Fanwood (my favorite serif) and JetBrains (my favorite mono) easily.

In the end, be prepared for something to go wrong. Just trust that you are not the first person to ever experience the issue and look it up. If that doesn't help, you can always ask. The forums and reddit community both look active.

[wolfliving]

Dead AI IoT

Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin

By David Gerard on 19 February 2025

Humane, creator of the fabulous and literally nonfunctional Ai Pin gadget — that's "Ai," not "AI" — has finally thrown in the towel.

After Humane took $230 million in venture funding and tried and failed to sell itself for $1 billion, Hewlett-Packard is paying $116 million to acqui-hire most of the team and get Humane’s software and patents. [Humane, archive]

There was also some burbling from HP about “an intelligent ecosystem across all HP devices from AI PCs to smart printers and connected conference rooms,” which probably means floundering a bit then selling the software on once again, as they did with Palm and WebOS.

We’re sure that Humane’s venture capital backers — including Sam Altman, Microsoft, and Marc Benioff — will be delighted that minus-50% is now the expected realized return on AI investments in the bubble.

HP is notably not taking on the Ai Pin itself — probably because it’s completely useless and doesn’t work. The hardware overheats and fails, the projected display isn’t visible in sunlight, and the software chains together LLMs to fail to understand or translate conversations. Also, it might catch fire.

The remaining Ai Pins will work until February 28, when the back-end servers at Humane shut down. After that date, you can ... check the battery level? Pretty good for a $700 gadget with a $24/month subscription. We’re sure both customers will be delighted. ]Humane, archive; Humane, archive]

[concerningwolves]

hp smart is the Most cursed software ever. on my old laptop it straight up did not print. any documents I sent (always on accident, as I tried not to use it) vanished into the ether. on this laptop, hp smart DOES print.

but what it prints is absolutely bonkers.

yesterday I arrived down in the room where the printer is to discover it had spat out blank pages until the paper tray was empty. today though? today it did this:

look at this shit. i asked for a single page of text and got. ten pages of gobbledegook.

and yet when I switch back to printing directly to my actual printer (which is the system default so I have no idea how or why HP Pieceofshit keeps overriding it), I get precisely what i intended to print.

what the whole entire hap is fuckening

[iwriteasfotini]

Binding Project #1 - We are the cursed of the loved ones & More loved ones

Original works by sapphic_under_stars aka @everythingsbetterunderthestars

So I typeset this using google docs, which is fairly limited in it's options but I make it work. I wish I could do more customization of the headers and footers... alas. It is what it is.

I have purchased special short grain paper and went for an off-white because it's kinder on the eyes and looks fancy to me. ;-)

The work is 180 pages long, with 9 signatures. I have a really old school piece of software which takes the PDF and formats it into signatures so it prints properly.

My printer is pretty basic, an HP laserjet I've had for like 8+ years and I have to manually double side print... I will likely be looking into a new printer but I have two new cartridges of ink to use up before I do that. It's cool, it's sort of relaxing to do the whole printing process really slow.

I'm waiting on a few more supplies to arrive in the mail, including thicker thread. I'll post more about this soon! :)

[spockandawe]

Hello! I've been thinking about binding some danmei novels in my native language, but I don't know where to start. I found your blog recently and find it very inspiring! I was wondering if maybe you could share with me what tools and materials would be good to get started with?

Sure!!!! So, I'm on mobile and don't have links at hand, but if you go back through my bookbinding tag, there are other replies I've got about the materials for making a book specifically. The renegade publishing blog also has resource documents that walk through the bookbinding process and include links to educational materials, etc. So for here, I'll focus on the danmei side of things!

So, a fun feature about these books is that they tend to run LONG. I've seen a number of people try to take up bookbinding in google docs, and honestly, it's doing things on hard mode. For many danmei, it's basically impossible. I think my EARLIEST earliest attempt at svsss began in gdocs, and that's not a super long novel, but gdocs was choking on it. A word processor on your desktop is going to be your best bet. Personally, i invested in a microsoft office license, because it was familiar and i could afford it. But the free parallel to that will be libre office, which does basically everything word can do, with just minor differences.

On the fancy end of bookbinding software, affinity, indesign, and microsoft publisher are also names you may hear tossed around. These can do fancier, more artistic layouts, but also come with a heavier price tag. And because i had webnovels on my radar from the start, i wanted something ROBUST. I wanted to be able to dump all of the husky and his white cat shizun into a single file and work from it. And i did eventually do that! Being able to typeset a single file rather than repeat each step across several is great, especially since i tend to tweak design choices as i go.

For danmei, you're also going to want a robust printer. I have a color laser that's been an absolute beast of a machine, but a black and white laser can get you a long ways, and monochrome designs can be very elegant. You don't want an HP brand printer, their toner subscription practices are downright predatory, but Brother and Canon are names I've seen recommended highly. You probably don't want an inkjet printer, because long books take a LOT of ink. The one exception would be if you can find an affordable ink tank printer.

And the last major thing i can think of is that if your main computer is a laptop, consider typesetting with an external mouse and keyboard! Danmei novels are split into lots of short chapters, frequently split across just as many web pages, with lots of footnotes to format, and laptops are convenient but not ergonomic. Doing too much on there is just asking for a repetitive strain injury. I've done it, but often paid for my sins in pain! And your laptop keyboard may start complaining too, I'm almost certain my first typeset of mdzs was the nail in the coffin for my last laptop's keyboard, haha

I hope that helps! Best of luck to you! Ive found binding cnovels to be EXTREMELY rewarding, even though my original reason was because these things would NEVER be licensed in english 😂 I'm delighted to see people experimenting with it for other translations in other languages, I really hope it goes well for you!!!!

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Subprime gadgets

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me THIS SUNDAY in ANAHEIM at WONDERCON: YA Fantasy, Room 207, 10 a.m.; Signing, 11 a.m.; Teaching Writing, 2 p.m., Room 213CD.

The promise of feudal security: "Surrender control over your digital life so that we, the wise, giant corporation, can ensure that you aren't tricked into catastrophic blunders that expose you to harm":

https://locusmag.com/2021/01/cory-doctorow-neofeudalism-and-the-digital-manor/

The tech giant is a feudal warlord whose platform is a fortress; move into the fortress and the warlord will defend you against the bandits roaming the lawless land beyond its walls.

That's the promise, here's the failure: What happens when the warlord decides to attack you? If a tech giant decides to do something that harms you, the fortress becomes a prison and the thick walls keep you in.

Apple does this all the time: "click this box and we will use our control over our platform to stop Facebook from spying on you" (Ios as fortress). "No matter what box you click, we will spy on you and because we control which apps you can install, we can stop you from blocking our spying" (Ios as prison):

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

But it's not just Apple – any corporation that arrogates to itself the right to override your own choices about your technology will eventually yield to temptation, using that veto to help itself at your expense:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/microincentives-and-enshittification/

Once the corporation puts the gun on the mantelpiece in Act One, they're begging their KPI-obsessed managers to take it down and shoot you in the head with it in anticipation of of their annual Act Three performance review:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill

One particularly pernicious form of control is "trusted computing" and its handmaiden, "remote attestation." Broadly, this is when a device is designed to gather information about how it is configured and to send verifiable testaments about that configuration to third parties, even if you want to lie to those people:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/your-computer-should-say-what-you-tell-it-say-1

New HP printers are designed to continuously monitor how you use them – and data-mine the documents you print for marketing data. You have to hand over a credit-card in order to use them, and HP reserves the right to fine you if your printer is unreachable, which would frustrate their ability to spy on you and charge you rent:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hp-wants-you-to-pay-up-to-36-month-to-rent-a-printer-that-it-monitors/

Under normal circumstances, this technological attack would prompt a defense, like an aftermarket mod that prevents your printer's computer from monitoring you. This is "adversarial interoperability," a once-common technological move:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability

An adversarial interoperator seeking to protect HP printer users from HP could gin up fake telemetry to send to HP, so they wouldn't be able to tell that you'd seized the means of computation, triggering fines charged to your credit card.

Enter remote attestation: if HP can create a sealed "trusted platform module" or a (less reliable) "secure enclave" that gathers and cryptographically signs information about which software your printer is running, HP can detect when you have modified it. They can force your printer to rat you out – to spill your secrets to your enemy.

Remote attestation is already a reliable feature of mobile platforms, allowing agencies and corporations whose services you use to make sure that you're perfectly defenseless – not blocking ads or tracking, or doing anything else that shifts power from them to you – before they agree to communicate with your device.

What's more, these "trusted computing" systems aren't just technological impediments to your digital wellbeing – they also carry the force of law. Under Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, these snitch-chips are "an effective means of access control" which means that anyone who helps you bypass them faces a $500,000 fine and a five-year prison sentence for a first offense.

Feudal security builds fortresses out of trusted computing and remote attestation and promises to use them to defend you from marauders. Remote attestation lets them determine whether your device has been compromised by someone seeking to harm you – it gives them a reliable testament about your device's configuration even if your device has been poisoned by bandits:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/05/trusting-trust/#thompsons-devil

The fact that you can't override your computer's remote attestations means that you can't be tricked into doing so. That's a part of your computer that belongs to the manufacturer, not you, and it only takes orders from its owner. So long as the benevolent dictator remains benevolent, this is a protective against your own lapses, follies and missteps. But if the corporate warlord turns bandit, this makes you powerless to stop them from devouring you whole.

With that out of the way, let's talk about debt.

Debt is a normal feature of any economy, but today's debt plays a different role from the normal debt that characterized life before wages stagnated and inequality skyrocketed. 40 years ago, neoliberalism – with its assaults on unions and regulations – kicked off a multigenerational process of taking wealth away from working people to make the rich richer.

Have you ever watched a genius pickpocket like Apollo Robbins work? When Robins lifts your wristwatch, he curls his fingers around your wrist, expertly adding pressure to simulate the effect of a watchband, even as he takes away your watch. Then, he gradually releases his grip, so slowly that you don't even notice:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ppqjya/apollo_robbins_a_master_pickpocket_effortlessly/

For the wealthy to successfully impoverish the rest of us, they had to provide something that made us feel like we were still doing OK, even as they stole our wages, our savings, and our futures. So, even as they shipped our jobs overseas in search of weak environmental laws and weaker labor protection, they shared some of the savings with us, letting us buy more with less. But if your wages keep stagnating, it doesn't matter how cheap a big-screen TV gets, because you're tapped out.

So in tandem with cheap goods from overseas sweatshops, we got easy credit: access to debt. As wages fell, debt rose up to fill the gap. For a while, it's felt OK. Your wages might be falling off, the cost of health care and university might be skyrocketing, but everything was getting cheaper, it was so easy to borrow, and your principal asset – your family home – was going up in value, too.

This period was a "bezzle," John Kenneth Galbraith's name for "The magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it." It's the moment after Apollo Robbins has your watch but before you notice it's gone. In that moment, both you and Robbins feel like you have a watch – the world's supply of watch-derived happiness actually goes up for a moment.

There's a natural limit to debt-fueled consumption: as Michael Hudson says, "debts that can't be paid, won't be paid." Once the debtor owes more than they can pay back – or even service – creditors become less willing to advance credit to them. Worse, they start to demand the right to liquidate the debtor's assets. That can trigger some pretty intense political instability, especially when the only substantial asset most debtors own is the roof over their heads:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/06/the-end-of-the-road-to-serfdom/

"Debts that can't be paid, won't be paid," but that doesn't stop creditors from trying to get blood from our stones. As more of us became bankrupt, the bankruptcy system was gutted, turned into a punitive measure designed to terrorize people into continuing to pay down their debts long past the point where they can reasonably do so:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/bankruptcy-protects-fake-people-brutalizes-real-ones/

Enter "subprime" – loans advanced to people who stand no meaningful chance of every paying them back. We all remember the subprime housing bubble, in which complex and deceptive mortgages were extended to borrowers on the promise that they could either flip or remortgage their house before the subprime mortgages detonated when their "teaser rates" expired and the price of staying in your home doubled or tripled.

Subprime housing loans were extended on the belief that people would meekly render themselves homeless once the music stopped, forfeiting all the money they'd plowed into their homes because the contract said they had to. For a brief minute there, it looked like there would be a rebellion against mass foreclosure, but then Obama and Timothy Geithner decreed that millions of Americans would have to lose their homes to "foam the runways" for the banks:

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2012/08/how-treasury-secretary-geithner-foamed-the-runways-with-childrens-shattered-lives/

That's one way to run a subprime shop: offer predatory loans to people who can't afford them and then confiscate their assets when they – inevitably – fail to pay their debts off.

But there's another form of subprime, familiar to loan sharks through the ages: lend money at punitive interest rates, such that the borrower can never repay the debt, and then terrorize the borrower into making payments for as long as possible. Do this right and the borrower will pay you several times the value of the loan, and still owe you a bundle. If the borrower ever earns anything, you'll have a claim on it. Think of Americans who borrowed $79,000 to go to university, paid back $190,000 and still owe $236,000:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/04/kawaski-trawick/#strike-debt

This kind of loan-sharking is profitable, but labor-intensive. It requires that the debtor make payments they fundamentally can't afford. The usurer needs to get their straw right down into the very bottom of the borrower's milkshake and suck up every drop. You need to convince the debtor to sell their wedding ring, then dip into their kid's college fund, then steal their father's coin collection, and, then break into cars to steal the stereos. It takes a lot of person-to-person work to keep your sucker sufficiently motivated to do all that.

This is where digital meets subprime. There's $1T worth of subprime car-loans in America. These are pure predation: the lender sells a beater to a mark, offering a low down-payment loan with a low initial interest rate. The borrower makes payments at that rate for a couple of months, but then the rate blows up to more than they can afford.

Trusted computing makes this marginal racket into a serious industry. First, there's the ability of the car to narc you out to the repo man by reporting on its location. Tesla does one better: if you get behind in your payments, your Tesla immobilizes itself and phones home, waits for the repo man to come to the parking lot, then it backs itself out of the spot while honking its horn and flashing its lights:

https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotely-unlocks-model-3-owners-car-uses-smart-summon-to-help-repo-agent/

That immobilization trick shows how a canny subprime car-lender can combine the two kinds of subprime: they can secure the loan against an asset (the car), but also coerce borrowers into prioritizing repayment over other necessities of life. After your car immobilizes itself, you just might decide to call the dealership and put down your credit card, even if that means not being able to afford groceries or child support or rent.

One thing we can say about digital tools: they're flexible. Any sadistic motivational technique a lender can dream up, a computerized device can execute. The subprime car market relies on a spectrum of coercive tactics: cars that immobilize themselves, sure, but how about cars that turn on their speakers to max and blare a continuous recording telling you that you're a deadbeat and demanding payment?

https://archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/miss-a-payment-good-luck-moving-that-car/

The more a subprime lender can rely on a gadget to torment you on their behalf, the more loans they can issue. Here, at last, is a form of automation-driven mass unemployment: normally, an economy that has been fully captured by wealthy oligarchs needs squadrons of cruel arm-breakers to convince the plebs to prioritize debt service over survival. The infinitely flexible, tireless digital arm-breakers enabled by trusted computing have deprived all of those skilled torturers of their rightful employment:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/02/innovation-unlocks-markets/#digital-arm-breakers

The world leader in trusted computing isn't cars, though – it's phones. Long before anyone figured out how to make a car take orders from its manufacturer over the objections of its driver, Apple and Google were inventing "curating computing" whose app stores determined which software you could run and how you could run it.

Back in 2021, Indian subprime lenders hit on the strategy of securing their loans by loading borrowers' phones up with digital arm-breaking software:

https://restofworld.org/2021/loans-that-hijack-your-phone-are-coming-to-india/

The software would gather statistics on your app usage. When you missed a payment, the phone would block you from accessing your most frequently used app. If that didn't motivate you to pay, you'd lose your second-most favorite app, then your third, fourth, etc.

This kind of digital arm-breaking is only possible if your phone is designed to prioritize remote instructions – from the manufacturer and its app makers – over your own. It also only works if the digital arm-breaking company can confirm that you haven't jailbroken your phone, which might allow you to send fake data back saying that your apps have been disabled, while you continue to use those apps. In other words, this kind of digital sadism only works if you've got trusted computing and remote attestation.

Enter "Device Lock Controller," an app that comes pre-installed on some Google Pixel phones. To quote from the app's description: "Device Lock Controller enables device management for credit providers. Your provider can remotely restrict access to your device if you don't make payments":

https://lemmy.world/post/13359866

Google's pitch to Android users is that their "walled garden" is a fortress that keeps people who want to do bad things to you from reaching you. But they're pre-installing software that turns the fortress into a prison that you can't escape if they decide to let someone come after you.

There's a certain kind of economist who looks at these forms of automated, fine-grained punishments and sees nothing but a tool for producing an "efficient market" in debt. For them, the ability to automate arm-breaking results in loans being offered to good, hardworking people who would otherwise be deprived of credit, because lenders will judge that these borrowers can be "incentivized" into continuing payments even to the point of total destitution.

This is classic efficient market hypothesis brain worms, the kind of cognitive dead-end that you arrive at when you conceive of people in purely economic terms, without considering the power relationships between them. It's a dead end you navigate to if you only think about things as they are today – vast numbers of indebted people who command fewer assets and lower wages than at any time since WWII – and treat this as a "natural" state: "how can these poors expect to be offered more debt unless they agree to have their all-important pocket computers booby-trapped?"

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/29/boobytrap/#device-lock-controller

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[techjackindia]

Why the HP Laptop Store in Jaipur Is the First Choice for Students and Professionals

Introduction

In a fast-paced city like Jaipur, where education and technology are evolving rapidly, having access to reliable and efficient laptops is a must. Whether you are a student preparing for challenging examinations or a working professional handling remote assignments, a great laptop may significantly increase your productivity. That’s where the hp laptop store in jaipur comes into the picture — giving top-notch products, skilled support, and unsurpassed service.

Wide Range of HP Laptops for Every Need

One of the major aspects of the hp laptop store in jaipur is its vast range of laptops that cater to diverse demands. From budget-friendly models for college students to high-performance PCs for designers, gamers, and corporate users – the store has something for everyone. HP's Pavilion, Envy, Spectre, and Omen series are all available under one roof, making it easy to compare and choose based on your tastes.

Genuine Products and Latest Releases

Buying from an authorized hp laptop store in jaipur ensures you get 100% genuine products with original warranties and invoices. These boutiques often obtain the latest arrivals quicker than online platforms and provide exclusive configurations and color options. Plus, as an official outlet, they maintain clear pricing and give student or festival discounts directly from HP.

Expert Guidance and Technical Support

For students and professionals who may not be tech-savvy, choosing the proper configuration can be a difficulty. Fortunately, the staff at the hp laptop store in jaipur are highly trained and offer competent guidance. They take the time to understand your requirements — whether it’s for programming, graphic designing, online classes, or business tasks — and suggest the best options accordingly. Post-purchase, the business also provides extensive after-sales service and software support.

Easy Financing and Student-Friendly Offers

Many students in Jaipur are often concerned about budget concerns. The hp laptop store in jaipur recognizes this and connects with renowned financial providers to offer convenient EMI alternatives with minimal documentation. Additionally, students can benefit from seasonal bargains, cashback promotions, and complimentary equipment like backpacks, printers, or extended warranties.

Strategic Location and Hassle-Free Experience

Located in prominent sections of Jaipur such as Tonk Road, MI Road, and Malviya Nagar, the HP stores are easily accessible and well-connected. The stores are meant to give a comfortable browsing and purchase experience, with demo machines available for hands-on testing. Customers may stroll in, try several models, examine specs, and make informed decisions without pressure.

Conclusion

With a strong reputation for quality, support, and variety, the hp laptop store in jaipur has become the go-to destination for students and professionals alike. Whether you're buying your first laptop or upgrading to a more powerful machine, these businesses offer a whole package — authenticity, expertise, price, and after-sales care. It's no surprise they are the first pick for Jaipur's tech-savvy generation.

[therobotmonster]

I have worked IT tech support before.

If you get an actually difficult issue and a non-hostile customer it is such a delightful change of pace.

I was on a single tech support call for six and a half hours once. It was a problem no one had been able to fix. This guy had gone through three different printers and none of them would install.

That's not super weird. I was doing tech support for Staples and it was an HP printer, and they were, at the time at least, making printers that were anywhere from subpar to all-but-certainly intentionally designed to fail after the manufacturer's warranty ran out.

However, this time it wasn't HP's fault. I went through every installation process, set his network back up, everything in the book, but the printer would not be recognized. The printers worked on other machines, but every HP machine tried on his system failed, and the store had made one of their "for real get this guy taken care of" calls so I couldn't really stop.

And then I found, deep in some Windows forum, the answer.

It was the guy's auto-backup software.

I think it was Norton 360 but it might have been PANDA or something like that. But some random aspect of its process did not play well with HP's installer. We turned it off, turned off its "start on startup" process, restarted his machine for the 80th time, and got it installed.

I was hours past the end of my shift, I'd missed my lunch break, but it was one of the few calls there that didn't make me want to feed the species and then myself into a wood chipper.

[digitaldreamsjaipur1]

Boost Office Productivity with the Multi-Function Features of hp laserjet pro mfp m226dn

Overview

It is impossible to compromise on efficiency and dependability in the fast-paced commercial world of today. Multifunction printers are essential to offices in order to maintain everyday operations and streamline duties. A reliable example of this is the HP LaserJet Pro MFP M226dn. This printer, which was made for small to medium-sized enterprises, is a strong candidate for any office trying to increase efficiency because it combines strong functionality into a small, polished design.

Multifunctional Design in a Compact Package

There is more to the HP LaserJet Pro MFP M226dn than just a printer. You may improve usefulness and decrease clutter without sacrificing efficiency because it integrates printing, scanning, copying, and faxing into a single device. Its compact size makes it perfect for tiny workstations, yet its performance is powerful.

Quick and dependable Printing

With print speeds of up to 26 pages per minute (ppm), this model delivers on the importance of speed in the workplace. There is very little downtime because the first page prints in as little as 8 seconds. Additionally, the HP LaserJet Pro MFP M226dn provides automatic two-sided printing (duplex), which lowers operating costs and saves paper, both of which are critical for companies that care about the environment.

Superior Scanning and Copies

A 1200 dpi scanner built into the device creates sharp, clear documents and photos. The HP LaserJet Pro MFP M226dn streamlines administrative duties with features like ID Copy and scan-to-email, allowing employees to concentrate on more important work. Batch scanning is made simple with its 35-sheet automated document feeder (ADF) and flatbed scanner.

Safe and Simple Networking

Secure and dependable networking is essential in today's networked offices. Multiple users can access the HP LaserJet Pro MFP M226dn printer over a shared network thanks to its Ethernet connectivity. Additionally, it has integrated security capabilities that assist shield private data from unwanted access, providing IT managers with peace of mind.

Energy-efficient and economical

HP's Instant-on and Auto-On/Auto-Off technologies help save energy without compromising functionality. Utilising HP 83A toner cartridges, which are renowned for their efficiency and yield, the HP LaserJet Pro MFP M226dn helps organisations keep expenses down. The printer's eco-friendly qualities are further highlighted by its ENERGY STAR® certification.

Easy-to-use Controls and Options for Mobile Printing

Even people who are not tech-savvy can easily use this printer thanks to its user-friendly control panel and straightforward navigation. Even though it lacks built-in wireless, you can still enable mobile printing with HP software and associated apps, giving you more freedom when printing from tablets and smartphones.

In conclusion

An excellent purchase for any office looking to boost productivity and cut down on operational hassles is the HP LaserJet Pro MFP M226dn. A smooth workflow is facilitated by its multifunction capabilities, quick print rates, extensive scanning possibilities, and secure networking features. This HP printer gives your business the performance, dependability, and productivity increase it needs, whether you're managing a busy office or a developing company.

[news24-amit]

Advancements in Additive Manufacturing Propel Global 3D Printing Medical Devices Market

A new market intelligence report forecasts the global 3D printing medical devices market to expand from an estimated valuation of USD 1.7 billion in 2022 to USD 6.6 billion by 2031, registering a robust CAGR of 16.3% over the 2023–2031 period. Growth is underpinned by surging demand for patient-specific devices, advances in additive manufacturing technologies, and expanding healthcare infrastructure in emerging economies.

Market Overview: 3D printing often referred to as additive manufacturing enables the layer-by-layer fabrication of complex, customized objects directly from digital models. In healthcare, this translates into implants, surgical guides, prosthetics, orthotics, and even biocompatible tissue scaffolds tailored to individual patient anatomies. The technology’s ability to accelerate prototyping, reduce time-to-market, and improve clinical outcomes has fueled adoption across hospitals, research centers, and medical device OEMs worldwide.

Market Drivers & Trends

Customization Imperative: Personalization is now integral to patient-centric care. Clinicians and engineers leverage iterative design enabled by 3D printing to refine device fit, comfort, and function, which is especially salient in prosthetics and orthotics.

Advanced Surgical Tools Manufacturing: Additive manufacturing permits the creation of surgical instruments with intricate geometries and internal channels—unattainable through traditional methods. Lighter, ergonomically optimized tools enhance surgeon performance and reduce fatigue.

Regulatory Support & Reimbursement Initiatives: Regulatory agencies in North America and Europe have issued clear guidance on additive manufacturing in medical devices, facilitating faster approvals. Additionally, emerging reimbursement frameworks for patient-specific implants bolster market growth.

Material Innovations: Development of new biomaterial inks and biocompatible metals broadens the range of medical applications, from polymer-based dental guides to titanium orthopedic implants.

Latest Market Trends

Hybrid Manufacturing Models: Leading OEMs are combining traditional CNC machining with 3D printing to optimize cost and performance for complex parts.

In-hospital 3D Printing Facilities: Major hospitals are setting up in-house printing labs for point-of-care device production, reducing lead times for surgical planning and patient-matched implants.

Software-Driven Workflows: End-to-end digital platforms integrating imaging, CAD, and print preparation are gaining traction, streamlining the path from scan to device.

Key Players and Industry Leaders

The market landscape is fragmented, with both specialized start-ups and diversified industrial players vying for share. Notable contributors include:

3D Systems, Inc.

3T Additive Manufacturing Ltd

Carbon, Inc.

Cyfuse Biomedical K.K.

EnvisionTEC

EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems

FabRx Ltd.

Materialise

Prodways Group

Renishaw plc

Stratasys Ltd.

Other Key Players

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Recent Developments

June 2023 – Mighty Oak Medical announced a strategic partnership with HP, deploying Jet Fusion 5200 printers to accelerate production of personalized orthoses and braces, cutting turnaround times by up to 50%.

June 2023 – EOS GmbH, Precision ADM, Orthopaedic Innovation Centre, and Tecomet, Inc. formed a consortium offering an end-to-end additive manufacturing service, from design validation to full-scale production.

April 2024 – Stratasys unveiled a biocompatible photopolymer for long-term surgical implant prototypes, addressing stringent ISO and FDA biocompatibility standards.

Market Opportunities

Emerging Markets Expansion: Infrastructure investments in Asia Pacific and Latin America open avenues for local manufacturing hubs, addressing unmet demand for cost-effective, custom medical devices.

Digital Dentistry Boom: Rising adoption of clear aligners and personalized dental implants positions dentistry as a high-growth subsegment for 3D printing applications.

Bioprinting Prospects: Although still in early stages, tissue and organ bioprinting present a long-term opportunity for regenerative medicine, potentially revolutionizing transplantation and wound healing.

Future Outlook

Continued technology maturation spanning faster print speeds, novel materials, and integrated AI-driven design tools will further cement 3D printing’s role in medical device innovation. By 2031, market participants anticipate horizontal expansion into adjacent healthcare services, such as on-site repair of implants and remote surgical planning services enabled by digital twins.

Market Segmentation

By Offering

Hardware

Software

Services

By Technology

Electron Beam Melting (EBM)

Laser Beam Melting (LBM)

Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS)

Stereolithography (SLA)

Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) – 33.2% share in 2022, projected to lead through 2031

Selective Laser Melting (SLM)

Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)

Others (Photopolymerization, Digital Light Processing)

By Material

Plastics

Biomaterial Inks

Metals & Alloys

By Application

Surgical Tools & Guides

Prosthetic Implants

Orthopedic Implants

Wearable Medical Devices – Fastest growing segment driven by telemedicine and remote monitoring

Dentistry & Orthodontics

Others (Tissue-Engineered Products, Reconstructive Surgery)

Regional Insights

North America (35.1% share, 2022): Home to key OEMs, robust R&D ecosystems, and favorable reimbursement pathways. Hospitals and surgical centers lead in clinical adoption of patient-specific devices.

Europe (30.4% share, 2022): Public-private investments in additive manufacturing R&D, coupled with strong regulatory frameworks, foster steady growth. Germany, the U.K., and France are primary markets.

Asia Pacific: Rapid healthcare infrastructure build-out in China, India, and Southeast Asia presents lucrative greenfield opportunities. Localized manufacturing can address cost sensitivities and regulatory divergence.

Latin America & Middle East & Africa: Market penetration remains nascent but is set to improve via collaborative ventures between global device makers and regional healthcare providers.

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Regional Heat Maps: Granular coverage of 20+ countries, highlighting high-growth markets and regulatory landscapes.

Investment Scenarios: Scenario-based outlooks on adoption curves for key technologies and applications, helping stakeholders align capital deployment with market maturity.

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[geekstudioisnotascam]

How Trustworthy Is Geek Studio?

With the current market of options to choose from, selecting an IT service is harder than ever before—and harder than it should be. Which is why you might be asking, “Who can I trust?" While looking at Geek Studio Inc., we'll examine their services and discuss Geek Studio reviews. In this blog, I will provide pieces of evidence as to why choosing ‘them' would not be a wrong decision.

Who Is Geek Studio?

Headquartered at 1060 N Arizona Ave #88 Chandler, Geek Studio Inc. offers IT services to businesses and home users nationwide. Their services range from computer problem diagnosing and device security to offering comprehensive support. Solving client issues concerning printers and even removing computer viruses are accomplished promptly with top-tier service from their highly trained and skilled technicians.

Whether Geek Studio Inc. is trustworthy is a complex question. Below is a breakdown to assist you in making an informed decision:

Geek Studio Yelp  Reviews—Fast and Professional Support

As a result of their service, which is both quick and professional, Geek Studio Inc. has received praise from multiple customers. Their team solves issues with such ease that they have made the customers trust them with all of their IT support needs. Take, for instance, a customer who shared their amazing experience on June 2, 2025:

This shows that they are expert technicians because they offer the best services all the time so that customers feel confident and satisfied.

High Trustpilot Geek Studio Reviews and Ratings

Having received more than 3,000+ reviews, Geek Studio Inc. is rated as “Excellent” on Trustpilot - marked at 4.8 stars. Instead of focusing on negative feedback, they focus on boosting their customer service. The rating suggests that most customers appreciate the service provided to them. A customer remarked on this wonderful review:

Strong Partnerships with Microsoft

Marking itself as an authorized dealer for Microsoft services, it proudly showcases its partnership certification with Microsoft. Consumers provide feedback stating and remarking that their team is quite dependable and helps with Microsoft-related issues. These partnerships prove that Geek Studio is capable of offering authentic services.

Trusted HP Partnership

Furthermore, Geek Studio partners with HP and offers exceptional assistance to HP devices, including printers and computers. Clients claim that their technicians have expertly and successfully dealt with many issues concerning HP devices. 

Scam Allegations - Not a Scam

Geek Studio has been noted as a legal and trustworthy company. A thorough blog post on Investor mentions several reasons why Geek Studio is not a scam. Their domain registration shows commitment towards the business, and thousands of positive reviews support their excellent services. The blog underlines the expertise with which the company deals with IT challenges and reinforces to the customers that Geek Studio is a dependable IT service provider.

Services Offered by Geek Studio

They provide various other services, which makes them a one-stop shop for IT requirements. Here’s an overview based on the data from their website:

The support team handles issues concerning computer performance slowdown, software system crashes, and software-related problems.

Support staff provides printer setup service together with repair solutions for printing issues.

They provide complete virus removal, which includes future system threat protection.

The team provides software setup support for programs and applications, including installation processes.

The installation service helps customers establish their security cameras and universal remotes as part of their smart home network.

Small enterprise clients receive IT consulting services that provide system maintenance and security optimization in addition to smart device installations.

Their website notes that 95% of common PC problems can be resolved remotely, which is useful for people looking for a quick fix. In other regions, they provide on-site assistance.

Why Trust Geek Studio?

Here are the key reasons why Geek Studio Inc. is considered a reliable IT service provider:

Experienced and Knowledgeable Technicians

Like George and Jessica, the other specialists at Geek Studio Inc. receive good reviews for their skill and patience. Their work involves teaching people about technology and educating them on how things work, and they do so with great care. Their work results in the removal of viruses and the implementation of compatible security systems, which their clients appreciate.

Protection Against Online Fraud

Their team assists customers who face hacking attempts and online scams by providing support services. The company ensures hardware restoration after malware incidents and creates preventive strategies to avoid future problems with computer systems. The organization provides excellent customer service in cybersecurity which enables clients to maintain their device security.

Affordable and Transparent Pricing

The company has built a positive customer base because of its low-cost service offerings. Ongoing support subscriptions allow customers to obtain continuous assistance at budget-friendly prices. Their good reputation stems from multiple customer reviews that highlight their competitive prices as well as transparent billing procedures.

Long-Term Commitment

Geek Studio Inc. has been familiar with running a business for years as it has a long-term domain name registered, something a legitimate business would have. Domains registered for the short term are typical for scammers, but Geek Studio’s business continues to build trust.

How Geek Studio Protects You from Online Fraud

Geek Studio implements several customer safety protocols to prevent online scams which also resolve rising security issues.

The following methods represent their approach to protecting customers:

The company performs device scans in addition to cleaning procedures to prevent data breaches.

The Geek Studio team installs Microsoft Security software to safeguard systems from upcoming threats.

The IT team breaks down problems into basic language, which enables customers to protect themselves from scams.

Tips to Avoid Online Scams

The Geek Studio Inc. operates with integrity, yet users need to exercise online precautions. Here are several strategies to prevent falling for scams:

Check Reviews: Trust platforms, such as Trustpilot, for verified customer feedback, will validate the company's reputation.

Verify Contact Info: The use of professional email addresses connected to domain names indicates a company's legitimacy instead of free Gmail accounts.

Be Wary of Too-Good-To-Be-True Offers: If an opportunity presents itself as too good to be true, then it could be a scam.

Ask for Refunds: Geek Studio Inc., together with other reliable companies, establishes clear terms for refunds when things do not go as planned.

In conclusion:

The data analysis demonstrates Geek Studio Inc. as a reliable IT service provider because they show good testimonials from customers and maintain successful partnerships with established brands while delivering affordable services with proper service quality. Their trust safety policies empower people to remain secure online. With trained technicians and a customer-oriented approach, Geek Studio Inc. is a preferred company when one has IT support issues.