How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps
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Re: How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps
#2It has always annoyed me that "region settings" don't just take into account the realities of the situation; they're OBVIOUSLY designed to prevent people in "rich" countries from buying media designated for "poor" countries in a form of market segmentation; but that should mean the "rich media" should just work in all devices.
Of course now things like the players are so cheap you can just buy multiple if you want to bypass region encoding on DVDs, for example.
I wonder if off-brand ink would have just completely ignored the region thingy.
Re: How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps
#3I think part reason HP had trouble solving this case is the fact that most skilled people have decent ethics, and refuse to work for Vito Corleone [ink edition].
Re: How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps
#4It has always annoyed me that "region settings" don't just take into account the realities of the situation; they're OBVIOUSLY designed to prevent people in "rich" countries from buying media designated for "poor" countries in a form of market segmentation; but that should mean the "rich media" should just work in all devices. Of course now things like the players are so cheap you can just buy multiple if you want to…
You are giving advice on how to circumvent region coding technology, which is probably illegal due to DMCA or some other act
Re: How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps
#5It has always annoyed me that "region settings" don't just take into account the realities of the situation; they're OBVIOUSLY designed to prevent people in "rich" countries from buying media designated for "poor" countries in a form of market segmentation; but that should mean the "rich media" should just work in all devices. Of course now things like the players are so cheap you can just buy multiple if you want to…
You are giving advice on how to circumvent region coding technology, which is probably illegal due to DMCA or some other act
If I've had to deal with that once, I've had to deal with it 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640 times.
Re: How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps
#6It has always annoyed me that "region settings" don't just take into account the realities of the situation; they're OBVIOUSLY designed to prevent people in "rich" countries from buying media designated for "poor" countries in a form of market segmentation; but that should mean the "rich media" should just work in all devices. Of course now things like the players are so cheap you can just buy multiple if you want to…
You are giving advice on how to circumvent region coding technology, which is probably illegal due to DMCA or some other act
I can’t see how suggesting to buy off brand ink is illegal
Re: How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps
#7It has always annoyed me that "region settings" don't just take into account the realities of the situation; they're OBVIOUSLY designed to prevent people in "rich" countries from buying media designated for "poor" countries in a form of market segmentation; but that should mean the "rich media" should just work in all devices. Of course now things like the players are so cheap you can just buy multiple if you want to…
Tangential: after moving to a “cheaper” region I can no longer gift American friends Steam titles. I’d pay the full American price but there’s simply no such option. Sad. (Of course I can send cash instead, but cash gifts IMO are kinda gross.)
Re: How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps
#8What happened to the simple world of unit price and volume discounts.
The screw the consumer for the max they can afford works for monopoly, corruption and stand over tactics
Re: How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps
#9I hope that someday the EU will look into manufacturers of consumables-based devices like printers. Consumers shouldn't be limited to use branded, forced-expiring, half-empty consumables, that can't work because of DRMs, or other anti-consumer rules like 'oh you need all cartridges even if you want to print in black and white'
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#10I went through a similar problem with an expensive wifi 6 cable modem router (Netgear Nighthawk CAX80). Spent too much money on it ($400 if I remember rightly) for better internet connectivity from xfinity. Worked well until I moved back to the UK, shipping it across in a container, only to discover that it's not only region locked but if it cannot detect an American-style cable connection, it gets stuck in a reboot loop. Wanted to switch regions and turn on AP mode to use it just for that, but now it's an expensive paper weight.
Also had the same problem with a gas pizza oven (Ooni), ironically from a Scottish company, but has only USA gas connections and is impossible to switch regions. I can very much sympathise with the author and am very glad consoles are no longer region locked.