I refuse most "updates". I think they're rarely worth the hassle or the bugs even when issued in good faith, and more and more often they're issued maliciously.
HP can spin-control about "protecting intellectual property" all
they want; these are existing printers where any proprietary
genies are already out of the bottle. They're just lying-ass
price-gouging con artists.
I'm typing this on an old HP Pavilion billed as an "entertainment pc". Nearly every laptop in existence has a feature sometimes called "input monitor" that allows sound from the mic or line-in to immediately (without latency) play back through headphones (but not speakers). It's automatic, and is an entirely different (and to a musician recording tracks, it's an incalculably superior) feature to the LOSEdows high-distortion, high-latency "Listen to this device" feature. Laying tracks requires constant quality control: you absolutely have to hear what you're playing exactly when you play it - and some instruments are best recorded "direct-in" with no external amp/monitor (and thus no hassles with mics). Further, if you're laying a track on top of other tracks - say, a bass track for your existing drum track - you have to hear your run-time bass and your recorded drums precisely together without any humanly discernible delay anywhere in the chain.
Guess whether HP inexplicably and inexcusably disabled that
feature - which nearly every other computer in existence has. Mine
is old and I cannot find the information about which registry keys
(allegedly) re-enable it. This HP Pavilion is utterly worthless
for the task I bought it to perform, and I have no money to
replace it.
Worse even than that, is the kinda heartbreaking thread from a musician who spent hundreds and hundreds on a Pavilion when it was new and then found it was exactly as worthless for him - and found that HP absolutely would not even respond to his repeated requests for help and support even back then. The thread still exists on their own forum where he's practically begging for support.
More than you wanted to know? It's just so that any would-be HP
apologists can maybe feel the helpless frustration and rage when a
customer-hostile and fraudulent company knowingly sabotages their
product and does not state that they have done so. HP makes a
habit of it.
They should be made to state this on the printer and box in bold writing.
This printer locks out all cartridges that aren't brand new HP cartridges.See how fast their sales would drop then.
On Sep 28, 2016 11:05 AM, "Keith Smith" <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/hp-told-disarm-printer-ink-self -destruct-sequence-blocking- third-party-cartridges/
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