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I have a bunch of driver bits for these, but never knew what they were called.

I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a matching screw in the wild though.

Funny how if you don’t cram 10,000 chickens into tiny cages all stacked on top of one another…

My general advice to people when shopping for used printers is if it’s new enough to have a colour LCD, it’s too new. Ones like this with a 2x 16 character display are predominantly safe.

This rule holds for more manufacturers than you might expect.

For my sins, I did end up with an HP. But it’s a 2012 model (my specific one was built in 2017 however), well predating HP’s bullshit. It’s a colour A3 laser with Ethernet and automatic duplex, so I’m happy enough with it.

Hey! I’ve seen this story before!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1498335/

This wasn’t the kind of life-imitating-art I was hoping for.

That wasn’t my point, even remotely.

It was rather that they likely can’t just ignore this bullshit and carry on doing the right thing, no matter how much they should.

Sadly, as a traded company they would appear to have to at least respond to a “but but but muh shareholders!” argument, no matter the source (or how pathetic it is).

It’s not that they seemingly can’t (rightly) tell them to piss off, but it probably has to be done a lot more carefully.

Here’s a previous post with a video of one in use: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18922497