“Third party ink” existing as a phrase is the problem.
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
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Meh, I think it's pretty straight forward. It's just a description of the scenario.
Mario games are first party content, because they're made by the same company that makes the console. This says nothing positive or negative about the game, just who developed it.
I've used printers that don't have cartridges, instead they just have ink wells you can fill with any ink. You do have more freedom with ink choices, but they're a different kind of hassle. It's not simply a better solution.
(Speaking of solutions, sometimes the ink you buy is more of a suspension than a solution, and it'll clump up and dry in the feed hoses, a real pain in the ass.)
I get what you're saying but agree with the other guy. Just saying brother's ink or toner is first party instantly makes it sound like other brands are inferior. Just because you're intelligent enough to know that's not true doesn't mean everyone is. If recent history has taught me anything, it's that the average person is far less intelligent than you'd assume.
Would you rather call it "official" or "certified" or "genuine" toner cartridges? Because that sounds worse to me.
I mean, they really do need some way to differentiate their product from others. Because they do guarantee that their cartridge works with their printer (and customers would hold them accountable if they did not). They really can't guarantee that with any others. (simply because they didn't design the others, haven't tested them, and have no power to change them if there was a problem. All of which is perfectly reasonable)
This is the kind of stupidity that has us reinventing language constantly. Words mean what they mean. To hell with how they make you feel. BLACKLIST WHITELIST 😲 The horror!
This sounds accurate based on the user reports. They're not bricking anything, they just make you do manual registration if you use third party toner.
....they just make you do manual registration if you use third party toner
Man, if only we had a word for disabling critical features in this way.
If there is one, it's not "bricking", because it still functions as a printer.
Upvoted for understanding the concept of words having already established definitions
Standardized word meanings being recognized and adhered to really brings me joy.
I don't like that meanings change over time.
Oh man, I have bad news for you about living languages...
But no, I know what you mean, I don't like it either.
bad news for you about living languages...
Is it "the good ones, like French, gate-keep changes to prevent capricious drift by vapid Instagram whores, and the others are 'literally'[sic] English"?
"my account got hacked"
No, you gave someone your information they used to log in.
Ohhhhhhh, standardized word meanings are TIGHT!
Where were you when I was being called a pedant? 😅
So on one hand, yes. On the other hand, there are tasks that are onerous to non technicians.
If you asked me to do it manually, sure. I've interacted with a bunch of software, understand measurement systems, done some programming etc.
My wife on the other hand... There's no overlap between ecology or life sciences in this task. Outside her ability.
Yeah some folks in here are clearly out of touch with the capabilities of the average consumer.
Do we really need to define things in terms of what the average person is capable of? Especially when the biggest barrier seems to be "willingness to put a small amount of effort into learning a simple process"?
Yes. It’s called the Network Effect. People use discord because people use discord.
There's no equipment calibration in ecology or life science?
Her degrees are ECE and conservation so no.
Which is weird because one of Rossman's sources claimed that they were on the phone with Brother, asked how to do manual registration, and were told it couldn't be done unless a genuine Brother toner cartridge was installed.
Customer service reps have almost the same information that a customer would have. The only difference is they have a few more tools available to them.
Asking policy questions or anything at this level would likely get no useful info.
Only if the customer service is unempowered garbage.
Welcome to the real world.
Maybe support agent was being lazy, or ignorant.
The portal the agents use should be able to bring up internal info via keywords like "colour registration"
That person was just plain wrong. The same source showed the manual registration sheets under their reddit post.
Link? Where does it say that and how does one do that?
The links are in the article.
I don't know the specific process, but usually it's printing a registration page and then entering the offsets on the printer's control panel.
Well, that's a pleasant piece of news among a number of not-so-pleasant news items.
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