Today’s links We bullied HP into a minor act of disenshittification: Score one for the ink-stained wretches. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I’ve been. Latest books: You keep readin’ em, I’ll keep writin’ ’em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I’ll keep writin’ ’em. Colophon: All the rest. We bullied HP into a minor act of disenshittification (permalink) Here in the darkest days of the enshittocene, enshittification is low quality and plentiful, but even in this target-rich environment, one company stands out as pioneering champions of enshittification: HP. Every page in the enshittification playbook was printed in farcically expensive HP ink, and if you try to run a copy off for yourself, the printer will stop five times and force you to print a “calibration page” that is solid color from top to bottom, consuming about $10 worth of ink. Don’t like it? Die mad. HP drips with contempt for its customers. They make printer-scanners that won’t scan unless all four ink cartridges are installed and haven’t reached their best-before dates. They make printers that won’t print black and white if your $50 magenta cartridge is low. They sell you printers with special half-full cartridges that need to be replaced pretty much as soon as the printer has run off its mandatory “calibration” pages. The full-serving ink you buy to replace those special demitasse cartridges is also booby-trapped – HP reports them as empty…Pluralistic: We bullied HP into a minor act of disenshittification (22 Feb 2025)