Hi, let me tell you about the unholy abomination that is HP Instant Ink.
This is a thing that *sounds* like it might be useful (I know, you know where this is going), where you sign up to an ink subscription service in which your printer notices when its low on ink and orders refills.
My spouse signed up for this (with reservations) when the office supply place that used to be 5 minutes from our house closed. We knew this was going to be not great (overpriced, at least), but is so much worse than we imagined.
One month, we had printed enough stuff that we got a warning from HP that we were OVER OUR PRINTING QUOTA on our OWN DAMN PRINTER. I am pretty sure that this was a thing that happened on some level of Dante's Inferno, right?
Now, after my spouse had to have their credit card re-issued, we are getting warnings that if we do not supply an updated method of payment, OUR printer is going to STOP PRINTING with the INK THAT IS ALREADY IN IT THAT WE ALREADY PAID FOR. Just the sheer chutzpah of this would be impressive if it weren't so evil.
This is what Silicon Valley considers innovation in 2024.
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