

As someone who’s worked on printer firmware before, it makes me really sad that a company can get away with making a consumer decide between getting access to any of the actually useful changes that engineers — who have no say over ink cartridge policy — put effort towards making the best product they could, or not having said ink cartridge policies forced on them.
The company I contract with has been pushing hard on getting people to use LLMs (Copilot specifically) in their day-to-day; so much so that they put out a survey to everyone who hasn’t used it yet, asking why they haven’t used it. One of the questions was selecting checkboxes of reasons you haven’t used it; for the “Other”, free-form answer field I put: