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    633 months ago

    I’m pretty sure this measure was requested either by the government or some big three letter agency.

    I doubt that, if all printers were manufactured by a government monopoly, you wouldn’t have this shit baked in. It would probably be way worse

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            33 months ago

            You can tape a pen to your 3d printer to use it as a plotter.

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        83 months ago

        It’s insufferable how people will respond to “We shouldn’t let corporations do this” with “OK SO YOU WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO DO IT?!?!”

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          73 months ago

          It’s insufferable that the answer is always “build your own.” Lemmy assumes that every single person on the planet is an engineer with enough free time to design, build, and troubleshoot every device they own.

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            It’s based in rugged hypercapitalist bootstrap thinking. If something is broken just do it yourself! Even though that’s never realistic, and even if it were, no one person can or should be expected to do everything.

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        53 months ago

        I do think it shoukd be left up to (potentially big) companies; however, we should put restrictions on e.g. ink cartrige compatibility, just like what the EU is trying for smartphones and messagin right now.

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      203 months ago

      It was requested by the secret service as a countermeasure for counterfitting. More frequently it’s been used to “catch other criminals”, at least that’s what they say.

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        93 months ago

        More frequently it’s been used to “catch other criminals”

        Germans are used to this already. It’s called “Salamitaktik” (pushed piece a piece).