HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten | Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges::Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges
Y’all gonna make me look up the German dictionary so I know what verboten means, gawd damn I don’t need no education
(To be fair it’s interesting that they’d throw a random German word into an English language headline meant for English language readers, especially as it’s the key explanatory word in the headline, and yet it’s one we wouldn’t commonly know. Unlike commonly used non-English words like Information, or Cul-de-sac, Zeitgeist, Kaput, or Baguette, we - to my knowledge - haven’t used the word verboten before over here).
So yeah, I had to Google translate it xD But now I know! Woo!
HP is a cancerous company that should be killed with fire.
I hope I’ll remember never to buy anything new from HP as that’s disgusting 🤮
Why does anyone still buy HP?
They are often bundled with computers in cheap packages 
Ignorance
The big one seems to be non-techies who long ago heard they were good. A long, LONG time ago.
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They sell the printers below cost.
I just found out about the last time HP did this. I didn’t realize they were about to try it all over again. I guess they realized that any plan that looks good once is worth attempting again, by slowly wearing down the opposition. Like Google did with breaking ad blockers.
You know, we do have a word in English that means “verboten” right?
Verboten?
Past participle of “bieten”, “to bid”, as in “to command”. English correspondence to that is “bidden”. The prefix is “ver-” which here denotes completative aspect as well as negativity, the English correspondence to that is “for-” (not strict, but at least in this case). Sticking both together you get “forbidden” which indeed is the right translation. “The action of commanding a negative has been completed”, or, simply, “You’ve been told not to”.
German lone word from old high German. It just means Forbidden.
Lone word?
If you ever see this lone word in the wild, run!
Somebody tell me again why we, as a society, still print things? Other than publishing, why do we need printers?
cmon now. no victim blaming.
what if i just want to print a coloring book for my kid? there are perfectly valid reason to want to print things, and it should not be as difficult/stupid as it is today.
My favourite printer brand.
