Glad someone made this point. My next printer will definitely be a tank printer. It’s basically flipping the business proposal back to “pay for the printer up front” instead of “pay for the printer whenever you buy ink”. My current printer was cheap enough that I basically spend enough on ink to buy a new printer every few years, given degradation of cartridges when they’re left after opening.
Thanks for the heads up! Notification set, interested to see what’s shown…
Haha, yeah, I totally have proper backups…
The language in the article does seem to forget that plenty of early smartphones had replaceable batteries… Yeah, it might add some bulk, but it’s not exactly going to be a major hardship.
… but it seems like a good reverse step to me. Any consumer replaceable part is a good thing as far as I’m concerned.
Fun fact: your known bug count is super low if you don’t test properly.
Had something along these lines - a mail server that ended up used almost exclusively for sending automated internal emails. We’d migrated to a third party for email sending because managing DNS etc for clients got pretty painful. Mail server got removed by the tech lead and repointed to our third party mail provider without telling anyone, and 3 days into the months we’d hit our billing limit, on the lead’s day off. Turns out that one service had been sending an order of magnitude more email than all of our other services put together, as someone had been using email as a logging method.
That was a… fun day.