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“If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”

20 years ago, I got in a (friendly) public spat with Chris Anderson, who was then the editor in chief of Wired. I'd publicly noted my disappointment with glowing Wired reviews of DRM-encumbered digital devices, prompting Anderson to call me unrealistic for expecting the magazine to condemn gadgets for their DRM:

https://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2004/12/is_drm_evil.html

I replied in public, telling him that he'd misunderstood. This wasn't an issue of ideological purity – it was about good reviewing practice. Wired was telling readers to buy a product because it had features x, y and z, but at any time in the future, without warning, without recourse, the vendor could switch off any of those features:

https://memex.craphound.com/2004/12/29/cory-responds-to-wired-editor-on-drm/

I proposed that all Wired endorsements for DRM-encumbered products should come with this disclaimer:

WARNING: THIS DEVICE’S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD’S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR THINGS YOU USED TO GET FOR FREE — BE SURE TO FACTOR IN THE PRICE OF BUYING ALL YOUR MEDIA OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AT NO TIME IN HISTORY HAS ANY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY GOTTEN A SWEET DEAL LIKE THIS FROM THE ELECTRONICS PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME THEY’RE GETTING A TOTAL WALK. HERE, PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH, IT’LL MUFFLE YOUR WHIMPERS.

Wired didn't take me up on this suggestion.

But I was right. The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations. Inkjet printers were always a sleazy business, but once these printers got directly connected to the internet, companies like HP started pushing out "security updates" that modified your printer to make it reject the third-party ink you'd paid for:

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

Now, this scam wouldn't work if you could just put things back the way they were before the "update," which is where the DRM comes in. A thicket of IP laws make reverse-engineering DRM-encumbered products into a felony. Combine always-on network access with indiscriminate criminalization of user modification, and the enshittification will follow, as surely as night follows day.

This is the root of all the right to repair shenanigans. Sure, companies withhold access to diagnostic codes and parts, but codes can be extracted and parts can be cloned. The real teeth in blocking repair comes from the law, not the tech. The company that makes McDonald's wildly unreliable McFlurry machines makes a fortune charging franchisees to fix these eternally broken appliances. When a third party threatened this racket by reverse-engineering the DRM that blocked independent repair, they got buried in legal threats:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/euthanize-rentier-enablers/#cold-war

Everybody loves this racket. In Poland, a team of security researchers at the OhMyHack conference just presented their teardown of the anti-repair features in NEWAG Impuls locomotives. NEWAG boobytrapped their trains to try and detect if they've been independently serviced, and to respond to any unauthorized repairs by bricking themselves:

https://mamot.fr/@q3k@hackerspace.pl/111528162905209453

Poland is part of the EU, meaning that they are required to uphold the provisions of the 2001 EU Copyright Directive, including Article 6, which bans this kind of reverse-engineering. The researchers are planning to present their work again at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg this month – Germany is also a party to the EUCD. The threat to researchers from presenting this work is real – but so is the threat to conferences that host them:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/researchers-face-legal-threats-over-sdmi-hack/

20 years ago, Chris Anderson told me that it was unrealistic to expect tech companies to refuse demands for DRM from the entertainment companies whose media they hoped to play. My argument – then and now – was that any tech company that sells you a gadget that can have its features revoked is defrauding you. You're paying for x, y and z – and if they are contractually required to remove x and y on demand, they are selling you something that you can't rely on, without making that clear to you.

But it's worse than that. When a tech company designs a device for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades, they invite both external and internal parties to demand those downgrades. Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III. Selling a product that can be remotely, irreversibly, nonconsensually downgraded inevitably results in the worst person at the product-planning meeting proposing to do so. The fact that there are no penalties for doing so makes it impossible for the better people in that meeting to win the ensuing argument, leading to the moral injury of seeing a product you care about reduced to a pile of shit:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/25/moral-injury/#enshittification

But even if everyone at that table is a swell egg who wouldn't dream of enshittifying the product, the existence of a remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrade feature makes the product vulnerable to external actors who will demand that it be used. Back in 2022, Adobe informed its customers that it had lost its deal to include Pantone colors in Photoshop, Illustrator and other "software as a service" packages. As a result, users would now have to start paying a monthly fee to see their own, completed images. Fail to pay the fee and all the Pantone-coded pixels in your artwork would just show up as black:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process

Adobe blamed this on Pantone, and there was lots of speculation about what had happened. Had Pantone jacked up its price to Adobe, so Adobe passed the price on to its users in the hopes of embarrassing Pantone? Who knows? Who can know? That's the point: you invested in Photoshop, you spent money and time creating images with it, but you have no way to know whether or how you'll be able to access those images in the future. Those terms can change at any time, and if you don't like it, you can go fuck yourself.

These companies are all run by CEOs who got their MBAs at Darth Vader University, where the first lesson is "I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it further." Adobe chose to design its software so it would be vulnerable to this kind of demand, and then its customers paid for that choice. Sure, Pantone are dicks, but this is Adobe's fault. They stuck a KICK ME sign to your back, and Pantone obliged.

This keeps happening and it's gonna keep happening. Last week, Playstation owners who'd bought (or "bought") Warner TV shows got messages telling them that Warner had walked away from its deal to sell videos through the Playstation store, and so all the videos they'd paid for were going to be deleted forever. They wouldn't even get refunds (to be clear, refunds would also be bullshit – when I was a bookseller, I didn't get to break into your house and steal the books I'd sold you, not even if I left some cash on your kitchen table).

Sure, Warner is an unbelievably shitty company run by the single most guillotineable executive in all of Southern California, the loathsome David Zaslav, who oversaw the merger of Warner with Discovery. Zaslav is the creep who figured out that he could make more money cancelling completed movies and TV shows and taking a tax writeoff than he stood to make by releasing them:

https://aftermath.site/there-is-no-piracy-without-ownership

Imagine putting years of your life into making a program – showing up on set at 5AM and leaving your kids to get their own breakfast, performing stunts that could maim or kill you, working 16-hour days during the acute phase of the covid pandemic and driving home in the night, only to have this absolute turd of a man delete the program before anyone could see it, forever, to get a minor tax advantage. Talk about moral injury!

But without Sony's complicity in designing a remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrade feature into the Playstation, Zaslav's war on art and creative workers would be limited to material that hadn't been released yet. Thanks to Sony's awful choices, David Zaslav can break into your house, steal your movies – and he doesn't even have to leave a twenty on your kitchen table.

The point here – the point I made 20 years ago to Chris Anderson – is that this is the foreseeable, inevitable result of designing devices for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades. Anyone who was paying attention should have figured that out in the GW Bush administration. Anyone who does this today? Absolute flaming garbage.

Sure, Zaslav deserves to be staked out over an anthill and slathered in high-fructose corn syrup. But save the next anthill for the Sony exec who shipped a product that would let Zaslav come into your home and rob you. That piece of shit knew what they were doing and they did it anyway. Fuck them. Sideways. With a brick.

Meanwhile, the studios keep making the case for stealing movies rather than paying for them. As Tyler James Hill wrote: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing":

https://bsky.app/profile/tylerjameshill.bsky.social/post/3kflw2lvam42n

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/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill

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Setup Process For Hp LaserJet Pro M254dw Printer

Among different renditions, Hp LaserJet Pro M254dw is an astonishing printer both regarding elements and cost. Empowered with extra-customary highlights, it has dynamic security. It accompanies a remote HP printing component and HP ePrint. To find out about this rendition, read the article:

The brand HP doesn’t require acknowledgment in that frame of mind of the PC, it is now a laid out worldwide brand in PCs and its frills. It additionally makes a few wonderful printers in the business. The Hp LaserJet Pro M254dw offers an edge over its rivals with regards to variety, speed, and so forth. The brand HP is as of now known for the quality and consequently this printer is additionally expected to convey quality outcomes.

The UI of Hp LaserJet Pro M254dw makes it super easy to use and thus can be worked effectively because of amicable systems.

Since it is a Laser printer, they are known for their more noteworthy speed and quality print. So you can anticipate quicker printouts. This gadget can offer proficient execution. With more prominent effectiveness, you can save time while doing the print work.

Presently coming directly to the conversation; however it is an extraordinary gadget in the end it likewise experiences issues. It can begin breaking down or getting a few mistakes. Most printers experience some sort of blunder after some time and this printer isn’t an exemption. Try not to overreact! You can fix these issues effectively all alone.

Fix your printer issue by refreshing HP printer drivers and firmware from 123.hp.com/arrangement. On the off chance that that doesn’t assist with keeping on pursuing further.

The following are a couple of small bunches of tips that might end up being useful to you to fix mistakes of the Hp LaserJet Pro M254dw printer.

HP Laserjet Pro MFP M254dw — Investigating Printer Mistakes

On the off chance that you face any sort of issue with the Hp LaserJet Pro M254dw, this guide will assist you with diagnosing the blunder and investigate them.

Drivers Not Introduced

Make a point to download the most recent drivers for printers from the authority site by choosing the proper operating system. However the site naturally recognizes the operating system of your framework still you want to guarantee the proper operating system for downloading the right drivers.

Assuming you download in the middle between, take a stab at uninstalling the more established drivers and once again download the most recent drivers. You can download the most recent HP drivers from 123.hp.com/arrangement and introduce them on your gadget.

Printer Not Beginning

On the off chance that your Hp LaserJet Pro M254dw isn’t beginning in any way, then attempt the underneath moves toward fix your issue.

Check whether your printer is associated with the power source appropriately or not. It could happen that the electrical plug isn’t working so you ought to take a stab at interfacing the printer to another outlet. Next, you ought to check on the off chance that the power rope is connected to the printer appropriately. Ensure it isn’t harmed or cut from anyplace.

Check the USB link interfacing your printer to the PC. Is it associated appropriately from the two finishes? Have a go at supplanting the USB with another to guarantee in the event that it’s the shortcoming with the USB link.

Other potential reasons that could make your Hp LaserJet Pro M254dw printer not start are the harmed power button or inadequate power supply.

Paper Stuck Inside The Printer Opening

Actually look at the paper plate, programmed archive feeder beneath plate 2 ( base forward looking ) for any stuck paper. Eliminate the paper assuming you find any paper stuck there.

Paper Not Getting Taken care of Appropriately

In the event that the printer is showing the message of paper jam, check in the event that the paper isn’t torn or collapsed. Likewise, guarantee the right paper size is embedded in the paper plate.

49 Mistake

It is a kind of mistake shown by the printer when printers attempt to play out an activity that isn’t intended to act in that firmware. The printer can not just handle those errands. It can happen due to two reasons.

Unsupported Printer Orders

Natural and cooperation with the gadget. Fixing this issue is very straightforward, switch off the printer. Disengage the USB/Remote association. Walk out on. Trust that the printer will be in an inactive state. Take a stab at printing a setup report to show the legitimate usefulness of the printer. Check for the firmware, download the most recent one from 123.hp.com/arrangement if accessible.

Harmed Paper

Check in the event that the paper embedded for printing isn’t harmed or collapsed. It may very well be dismissed by the printer. On the off chance that the paper is damped or got some moistness, eliminate those sheets. Utilize those sheets in the wake of drying them.

On the off chance that the sheets are kept in too dry a climate, it may very well be conceivable the paper has created electricity produced via friction. All things considered, hold the sheets, flex them all over to eliminate that static charge. Guarantee the stack amount of the paper sheets, in the event that they aren’t over-burden in the paper plate.

Filthy Rollers

On the off chance that the roller feels grimy, wipe the rollers with a warm, soggy, and clean material texture. Ensure the roller is smooth that is build up and soil free. In the event that they are too smooth they should be supplanted.

Unfit To Interface With A Remote Organization

It is the most normally happening mistake in any remote printer. This happens when your printer is confronting some difficult situation while interfacing with the remote organization. Check your WiFi and ensure it is associated with the printer appropriately. Restart both your printer and WiFi and have a go at reconnecting them.

Printer Not Booting Up Totally

On the off chance that your HP printer is beginning yet not booting totally or stuck at the white screen, then, at that point, attempt the things underneath:

Update your Printer Firmware: ensure your printer has refreshed printer firmware. In the event that you do not download them immediately from the 123.hp.com/arrangement site.

Your printer may be adhered to the white screen because of impedance of outer links. For this situation, you are expected to eliminate all links like USB, ethernet, and fax from the printer while beginning the printer.

Conclusion

We trust the above investigating steps have assisted you with fixing your Hp LaserJet Pro M254dw printer. In the event that subsequent to attempting these arrangements, you actually face issues with your printer, you ought to contact our HP printer specialists immediately.

Our printer specialists will assist you with figuring out the basic reason for your printer issue and fix it quickly with distant help. You can likewise have a go at investigating your printer utilizing devices like Windows investigator or HP Backing Right hand.

Source:- https://www.behance.net/gallery/160126663/How-to-Resolve-Common-HP-Printer-Problems

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in my drag show directorial debut, the lead is a king in margiella boxy but skintight black leather and slicked back inky hair & halftone beard with CMYK makeup named hewlitt packer. the song is a disco/house track that frequently samples paper squeaking scanning noises. HP dances around until he jams up and freezes. the record scratches, hangs repeating for 20 seconds before beat switching to work bitch with the beat interlaced with smashing plastic noises. then a drag queen in geek coture (braces, brunette beehive, breastforms + pocket protector, kind of like britany spears in the video for hit me baby one more time but more khaki) comes in and waltzes with him erratically to symbolize the janky realness of an IT worker repairing a shitty printer.

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Star Trek (1971, Mike Mayfield)

Original Release: 1971

Developer: Mike Mayfield

Publisher: Self-Published

Platform: HP Basic

Version Played: Direct C# Port by Michael Birken (No enhancements)

The first Star Trek video game, made for the Sigma 7 and then ported to the HP 2000C minicomputer. These were devices that had no screens, but were instead connected to a printer and printed the new game game as you played.

This game was ported to many different systems, under a lot of different names such as Apple Trek, Tari Trek and Dragon Trek. I have chosen a couple that I will go through with significant changes, as the vast majority run the same, just ported to different systems, with the latest major version being released in 2023.

In this game, you need to destroy a set amount of Klingons in a few days. You need to explore the area, as well as dock at stations to repair yourself.

This game is very difficult, as you need to hunt for Klingons, navigate around and so lots of actual calculations to work out how to navigate as well as aim torpedoes. For such an old game, there is a surprising amount of detail in it, with enemies that attack you, systems that break, scanning and even a built-in calculator for torpedoes.

Your systems breaking are completely random, though, and something like your warp drive breaking can render a playthrough unwinnable as you won’t be able to find a starbase in time. Even without any damage, navigating around is very difficult as you need to set a direction and speed, and take into account both sector and quadrant locations.

Despite all this, there’s just something that’s a lot of fun about trying to do all this with such basic input, having to figure it all out yourself. It’s a fascinating game and it’s definitely impressive for what it was originally made for.

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Canada’s ground-breaking, hamstrung repair and interop laws

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/2024/11/15/radical-extremists/#sex-pest

When the GOP trifecta assumes power in just a few months, they will pass laws, and those laws will be terrible, and they will cast long, long shadows.

This is the story of how another far-right conservative government used its bulletproof majority to pass a wildly unpopular law that continues to stymie progress to this day. It's the story of Canada's Harper Conservative government, and two of its key ministers: Tony Clement and James Moore.

Starting in 1998, the US Trade Rep embarked on a long campaign to force every country in the world to enact a new kind of IP law: an "anticircumvention" law that would criminalize the production and use of tools that allowed people to use their own property in ways that the manufacturer disliked.

This first entered the US statute books with the 1998 passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), whose Section 1201 established a new felony for circumventing an "access control." Crucially, DMCA 1201's prohibition on circumvention did not confine itself to protecting copyright.

Circumventing an access control is a felony, even if you never violate copyright law. For example, if you circumvent the access control on your own printer to disable the processes that check to make sure you're using an official HP cartridge, HP can come after you.

You haven't violated any copyright, but the ink-checking code is a copyrighted work, and you had to circumvent a block in order to reach it. Thus, if I provide you a tool to escape HP's ink racket, I commit a felony with penalties of five years in prison and a $500k fine, for a first offense. So it is that HP ink costs more per ounce than the semen of a Kentucky Derby-winning stallion.

This was clearly a bad idea in 1998, though it wasn't clear how bad an idea it was at the time. In 1998, chips were expensive and underpowered. By 2010, a chip that cost less than a dollar could easily implement a DMCA-triggering access control, and manufacturers of all kinds were adding superfluous chips to everything from engine parts to smart lightbulbs whose sole purpose was to transform modification into felonies. This is what Jay Freeman calls "felony contempt of business-model."

So when the Harper government set out to import US-style anticircumvention law to Canada, Canadians were furious. A consultation on the proposal received 6,138 responses opposing the law, and 54 in support:

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2010/04/copycon-final-numbers/

And yet, James Moore and Tony Clement pressed on. When asked how they could advance such an unpopular bill, opposed by experts and the general public alike, Moore told the International Chamber of Commerce that every objector who responded to his consultation was a "radical extremist" with a "babyish" approach to copyright:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/copyright-debate-turns-ugly-1.898216

As is so often the case, history vindicated the babyish radical extremists. The DMCA actually has an official way to keep score on this one. Every three years, the US Copyright Office invites public submissions for exemptions to DMCA 1201, creating a detailed, evidence-backed record of all the legitimate activities that anticircumvention law interferes with.

Unfortunately, "a record" is all we get out of this proceeding. Even though the Copyright Office is allowed to grant "exemptions," these don't mean what you think they mean. The statute is very clear on this: the US Copyright Office is required to grant exemptions for the act of circumvention, but is forbidden from granting exemptions for tools needed to carry out these acts.

This is headspinningly and deliberately obscure, but there's one anecdote from my long crusade against this stupid law that lays it bare. As I mentioned, the US Trade Rep has made the passage of DMCA-like laws in other countries a top priority since the Clinton years. In 2001, the EU adopted the EU Copyright Directive, whose Article 6 copy-pastes the provisions of DMCA 1201.

In 2003, I found myself in Oslo, debating the minister who'd just completed Norway's EUCD implementation. The minister was very proud of his law, boasting that he'd researched the flaws in other countries' anticircumvention laws and addressed them in Norway's law. For example, Norway's law explicitly allowed blind people to bypass access controls on ebooks in order to feed them into text-to-speech engines, Braille printers and other accessibility tools.

I knew where this was going. I asked the minister how this would work in practice. Could someone sell a blind person a tool to break the DRM on their ebooks? Of course not, that's totally illegal. Could a nonprofit blind rights group make such a tool and give it away to blind people? No, that's illegal too. What about hobbyists, could they make the tool for their blind friends? No, not that either.

OK, so how do blind people exercise their right to bypass access controls on ebooks they own so they can actually read them?

Here's how. Each blind person, all by themself, is expected to decompile and reverse-engineer Adobe Reader, locate a vulnerability in the code and write a new program that exploits that vulnerability to extract their ebooks. While blind people are individually empowered to undertake this otherwise prohibited activity, they must do so on their own: they can't share notes with one another on the process. They certainly can't give each other the circumvention program they write in this way:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/28/mcbroken/#my-milkshake-brings-all-the-lawyers-to-the-yard

That's what a use-only exemption is: the right to individually put a locked down device up on your own workbench, and, laboring in perfect secrecy, figure out how it works and then defeat the locks that stop you from changing those workings so they benefit you instead of the manufacturer. Without a "tools" exemption, a use exemption is basically a decorative ornament.

So the many use exemptions that the US Copyright Office has granted since 1998 really amount to nothing more than a list of defects in the DMCA that the Copyright Office has painstaking verified but is powerless to fix. We could probably save everyone a lot of time by scrapping the triennial exemptions process and replacing it with an permanent sign over the doors of the Library of Congress reading "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."

All of this was well understood by 2010, when Moore and Clement were working on the Canadian version of the DMCA. All of this was explained in eye-watering detail to Moore and Clement, but was roundly ignored. I even had a go at it, publicly picking a fight with Moore on Twitter:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130407101911if_/http://eaves.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/Conversations%20between%20@doctorow%20and%20@mpjamesmoore.jpg

Moore and Clement rammed their proposal through in the next session of Parliament, passing it as Bill C-11 in 2012:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Modernization_Act

This was something of a grand finale for the pair. Today, Moore is a faceless corporate lawyer, while Clement was last seen grifting covid PPE (Clement's political career ended abruptly when he sent dick pics to a young woman who turned out to be a pair of sextortionists from Cote D'Ivoire, and was revealed as a serial sex-pest in the ensuing scandal:)

https://globalnews.ca/news/4646287/tony-clement-instagram-women/

Even though Moore and Clement are long gone from public life, their signature achievement remains a Canadian disgrace, an anchor chain tied around the Canadian economy's throat, and an impediment to Canadian progress.

This week, two excellent new Canadian laws received royal assent: Bill C-244 is a broad, national Right to Repair law; and Bill C-294 is a broad, national interoperability law. Both laws establish the right to circumvent access controls for the purpose of fixing and improving things, something Canadians deserve and need.

But neither law contains a tools exemption. Like the blind people of Norway, a Canadian farmer who wants to attach a made-in-Canada Honeybee tool to their John Deere tractor is required to personally, individually reverse-engineer the John Deere tractor and modify it to talk to the Honeybee accessory, laboring in total secrecy:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/12/canada_right_to_repair/

Likewise the Canadian repair tech who fixes a smart speaker or a busted smartphone – they are legally permitted to circumvent in order to torture the device's repair codes out of it or force it to recognize a replacement part, but each technician must personally figure out how to get the device firmware to do this, without discussing it with anyone else.

Thus do Moore and Clement stand athwart Canadian self-reliance and economic development, shouting "STOP!" though both men have been out of politics for years.

There has never been a better time to hit Clement and Moore's political legacy over the head with a shovel and bury it in a shallow grave. Canadian technologists could be making a fortune creating circumvention devices that repair and improve devices marketed by foreign companies.

They could make circumvention tools to allow owners of consoles to play games by Canadian studios that are directly sold to Canadian gamers, bypassing the stores operated by Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo and the 30% commissions they charge. Canadian technologists could be making diagnostic tools that allow every auto-mechanic in Canada to fix any car manufactured anywhere in the world.

Canadian cloud servers could power devices long after their US-based manufacturers discontinue support for them, providing income to Canadian cloud companies and continued enjoyment for Canadian owners of these otherwise bricked gadgets.

Canada's gigantic auto-parts sector could clone the security chips that foreign auto manufacturers use to block the use of third party parts, and every Canadian could enjoy a steep discount every time they fix their cars. Every farmer could avail themselves of third party parts for their tractors, which they could install themselves, bypassing the $200 service call from a John Deere technician who does nothing more than look over the farmer's own repair and then types an unlock code into the tractor's console.

Every Canadian who prints out a shopping list or their kid's homework could use third party ink that sells for pennies per liter, rather than HP's official colored water that cost more than vintage Veuve Cliquot.

A Canadian e-waste dump generates five low-paid jobs per ton of waste, and that waste itself will poison the land and water for centuries to come. A circumvention-enabled Canadian repair sector could generate 150 skilled, high-paid community jobs that saves gadgets and the Earth, all while saving Canadians millions.

Canadians could enjoy the resliency that comes of having a domestic tech and repair sector, and could count on it through pandemics and Trumpian trade-war.

All of that and more could be ours, except for the cowardice and greed of Tony Clement and James Moore and the Harper Tories who voted C-11 into law in 2012.

Everything the "radical extremists" warned them of has come true. It's long past time Canadians tore up anticircumvention law and put the interests of the Canadian public and Canadian tech businesses ahead of the rent-seeking enshittification of American Big Tech.

Until we do that, we can keep on passing all the repair and interop laws we want, but each one will be hamstrung by Moore and Clement's "felony contempt of business model" law, and the contempt it showed for the Canadian people.

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[inkstars1138]

I am fighting to keep my almost 10 year old printer. (The model was released in 2015) and it is ROUGH. It randomly stops working on the network, we lost the cable years ago, it stops printing in color at random. Shockingly, I can actually THANK the HP Smart app for letting me send print commands to her from my phone when nothing else works. It's tough because it was discontinued in 2017 (!!!) and it gets harder to find the software, and so I've started keeping it on a thumb drive usb. I am not giving up until this printer genuinely breaks beyond repair.

a comic about printers

I remember seeing a post a couple months back of someone talking about printer troubles and companies making them bad deliberately, like pointlessly different screw sizes and a lying no-usb-compatibility sticker

If someone knows it please tell me, I'm pretty sure I remember it had good resources on a youtube channel that teaches you how to fix stuff!

[rakka-kasahara]

2024-11-22

I think the first one had to do with me digging a computer PCB out of the dirt? I remembered it better when I first woke up, but it is pretty much gone now. For some reason, I also got a flashback to an alien or maybe secret facility?

The second also involved a computer. I am at Walmart in my home town in the computer section. Walmart has sort of the older layout for the tech section that they had before I left for college. I am looking at laptops and Brother N and my Mom and Dad are both there. I take a laptop and walk away with it to view the desktop setups. They are where the TVs should be. Most are normal, but a few are funky. There was this all-in-one PC that had a clear window at the bottom so you can see the insides, but the insides didn't make sense. It was way deeper than it could be for such a small computer. Some of the "gamer rigs" on the lower shelf were large squares with glass windows. One even had a sort of printer and game cartridge slot adapter bolted on the front. I got back to the laptop where my parents are and return the laptop I took. However, I noticed I must have messed up the Windows installation because I can't shut it down without it needing to so some sort of repair. I leave and tell my family I am going to check out the clearance section. This was on the other side of the tech section, though it is in a different place in real life. I notice they have some candy, including a tone of dried oranges. I reach up to the top shelf to get some oranges. After looking at the other stuff, they sort of disappear. The other stuff was Halloween things and some sweaters. I grab the sweaters without really looking to see if they are my size. My family is in the clothing section, but it is a little weird in that it is enclosed by walls as it it is its own room in the middle of the building. They are looking at some clothes, and I think I mention I got some clearance stuff. For some reason, I say I got one for my Brother N, and I pull out a Jack Skeleton sweater. It is an extra large and should fit him. That is about when I wake up.

Analysis:

I don't remember much of the first dream, and they may have even been separate dreams. Nonetheless, I think I know the inspiration. I started on a ZX Spectrum clone project the previous night. I also watched the most recent episode of Dandadan, so that might have influenced the other part I couldn't remember.

For the second dream, I actually have an HP all-in-one as a kitchen computer. We played games on those laptops at Walmart a lot as kids when Mom was shopping. For the dried oranges, I guess I am making a sort of fruit bread and am considering buying some candy from the candy store for Christmas, so maybe that is it. I actually got a Jack Skeleton pajama set on clearance last year, so that is defiantly the inspiration behind that sweater. My local Walmart also has a lot of Halloween stuff on clearance.