I too watched Louis Rossman’s YouTube video to author.
Going to be honest, didn’t realize my Brother laser printer got firmware updates, lol.
In 7 years I’ve replaced the toner cartridge once, given that the stater cartridge isn’t very full I imagine it’ll be awhile before I have to replace it again, at least.
Proton, Mozilla, Brother
Its not gonna stop there
😓
These motherfuckers are actively making tech as a whole less secure by destroying any trust the public may have had in firmware updates.
Urgent security fixes are gonna go unpatched on a lot of shit because consumers are seeing more and more firmware or software updates actively making things WORSE.
Fuck I just got rid of my 2008 BW laser brother and bought a new one that hasn’t arrived. Thanks for the warning, at least I will be able to set my firewall before I even connect it to my network
Drag thought Brother were supposed to be the makers of user friendly printers. Are they enshittifying?
This shit happened to me recently. Installed firmware update and immediately my 3rd party toner stops working. Try to find old firmware to roll back to and couldn’t locate it anywhere. Found some for other models via Google drive links in Reddit posts, but nothing for my printer.
I replaced the toner with new 3rd party toner which worked. And now I’ll never install another firmware update on the printer and should probably block it from the internet.
anyone know about jailbreaking printers
It absolutely baffles me that there isn’t a huge custom printer firmware movement.
I’ve have had this thought too and the only reason I can think of is that the inkjet printers are sold at such a rediculous loss, that anything that could be sold next to them without the offset price from ink would seem like a bad joke.
I think they meant - movement to release custom firmware for existing printers.
You were the chosen one! 😭
They had two things going for them… Decent linux support and non-shitty DRM ink/toner
I fear the day my 2014 hp LaserJet dies. There won’t be a decent printer on the market…
Et tu Brute! :(
nononononononpnNONONONONONO WHYYYYY I JUST GOT A BROTHER BECAUSE OF HP DOING THE SAME THING WTF
Keep it off the Internet and don’t update the firmware
Et tu Brother?
Haha, my crappy ass old HP printer still takes refills. No printer company shall ever see another cent of mine 😈
Brother used to be the good guys… Damn.
Right? I used to recommend friends and family invest in a brother laser printer instead of inkjet, especially if they didn’t need color
