Phantasm on Nostr: >2 years ago a friend asked me what printer companies I would recommend on a small ...
>2 years ago a friend asked me what printer companies I would recommend on a small budget >Brother laser printers >Turns out her boomer parents need a new printer after their 15 year old Canon inkjet dried out for the 200th time that year >Cheapskate boomers bought the cheapest option that had a scanner as they wanted >It's an HP >lain_stressed.png >"Please don't mention me when they ask for help." >2 years pass >back_to_the_future.webpee >HP printer refuses to create copies from the scanner and prints out "configuration network summary pages" >no photo provided (boomers don't use smartphones and don't have a camera) >type issue into a search engine >typical_hp_nonsense_support_pages.gif >one result goes to r*ddit >"I have this problem, how do I fix it" (1 year ago) >"I'm having this same issue, how did you fix it" (10 months ago) >"I returned the printer" >
>be me >bad at writing greentext
Supporting HP devices is almost a humiliation ritual. They always find a way to question ones technical abilities and sanity. office-space-printer.webm
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