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'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al... (www.pcgamer.com)
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'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al...::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its printers when fitted with a third-party ink cartridge. Now the company's CEO,

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (2 children)

what a literal fucking psychopath. i mean literally imagine waking up and thinking these things. imagine trying to actively make the world worse like this.

oh yeah i'm trying to make bathrooms a subscription

i'm trying to make food a subscription

i'm trying to make tv a subscription

i'm trying to make clothes a subscription

i cannot wait to live in paradise

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

i'm trying to make food a subscription

Hello Fresh, Blue Apron, and a few others have entered the chat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Unfortunately clothes by subscription is also a thing. I'm not sure what the company is, but I heard they'll send you a new outfit every month... It's one of the most wasteful things I've heard of in a while. We have literal mountains of unused clothes and other textile waste sitting in landfills.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

This is what every MBA lives and breathes. He's just saying it out loud. Which up until now was a faux paw.