this is like one of those IQ scale wojaks memes
everything electronic is just a tracking device <----------> electronic components are highly specialized <------------> everything electronic is just a tracking device...

Personally I think HP is missing the point focusing on putting drm on inkjet refills, it is only half committing to the business strategy.

The existence of a finished, printed paper begins at the moment of conception when the customer conceives of wanting to print a document. Really every step after that point (including the conception step itself) is monetizable by HP and more importantly rightfully owned as intellectual property of HP that you are technically stealing if you don’t follow through with actually printing the document on an HP printer.

HP is just leaving all of that money on the table, or maybe the printer market is just too heavily regulated for HP to innovate properly in a healthy free market.

yet.

I mean, hypothetically couldn't they mix some proprietary chemical formula into the ink and incorporates some device that analyses the ink chemistry and doesn't print if that proprietary mixture is not present?

I thought the joke here was that even when they're not locked your average inkjet printer is a hot pile of garbage machinery that works only when the planets align and you've sacrificed 3 goats and a your firstborn.

Meanwhile laster jet printers work most of the time except when they don't.

Edit: one time I wanted to buy more ink for my inkjet and there was a brand new inkjet printer that came with ink that was less expensive than a new cartridge. (Of the same size)

The new printer was $30 and worked just as poorly as my $150 inkjet.

I've done printer maintenance for years among other things and inkjets are literally designed and manufactured in the deepest layer of hell.

HP: Hold my cartridge

Do laser printers not extort you for money

Could be worse: you could've been one of those people who called their CRT monitor the "computer" and called the computer the "hard drive".

My ram just dumps its contents to whatever it feels like whenever it fancies like a rogue waste disposal truck that goes around neighborhoods collecting trash and then just delivering it to other random homes.

That's like saying HDDs will forget numbers if you store them next to a powerful magnet. Most SSDs have an operating range up to 70°C, so that hot room would have to be more like an oven.

Floating Point Unit. The thing that does mathematical operations on floating point numbers. It used come separately from the CPU as an add-on chip, but around the 486 era, manufacturers started integrating it on the same die as the CPU. Of course, as these things go, from the system programmers point of view, there is still no difference between an add-on FPU and an integrated one.

The one pictured here is an add-on FPU for an Intel 80386 CPU.

floating point number processing unit

.. checks answer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_unit

Floating Point Unit...

Eh, close enough

You could use like a 74181, or one of the vintage bitslice ALUs.

There are numerous people who have made an ALU in Minecraft Redstone. Of course, in Factorio too.

Nope, that's a Crucial MX300, a 275 GB SATA SSD.

M.2, sure, but still SATA :p

I'm sorry, I was going to reply, but my printer had a forced update and then detected an unauthorized cyan cartridge from a third party, shut down, and called the police to arrest me for violating HP's terms of servitude, er "service".