My new printer has me scared! :)

[Buc Wheat]

Just bought a new printer...HP DeskJet 2755e. It comes with a subscription
service that monitors your ink levels and will ship you new ink cartridges when
the levels get to a certain height.

About a month later, I get an email telling me that I have to keep the printer
on so the WIFI connection can monitor my levels, and my suspicious mind throws
up that nagging warning flag.

Suddenly I'm thinking, "That would make a cool book!" Do what AC Clarke did
w/ 2001:A Space Odyssey... take the letters before IBM to make up HAL, one
takes the next letters and makes up the IQ DeskJet 2755e!! A printer that
monitors your home/office with a hidden mic and camera that watches over
you...24.hours.a.day!!!

Freaked me out so much, I'm thinking of throwing a blanket over the whole
damn thing, now!!

[bucketfoot-al]

I don't like any tech devices that are hooked up to "somewhere else". I order my ink cartridges myself, thank you very much. Also like all my software to operate on my laptop self-sufficiently (alas, that is not possible any more with most sotware programs that require going "up to the cloud" to do their business) ...

... when I saw the thread title I assumed it was about a resin 3D printer .... should have known you were a "stone age oldtimer" like myself ... there's less than zero chance I will ever dabble in such things ... life is getting WAAYYY too complicated !

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[bucketfoot-al]

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[Buc Wheat]

... when I saw the thread title I assumed it was about a resin 3D printer .... should have known you were a "stone age oldtimer" like myself ... there's less than zero chance I will ever dabble in such things ... life is getting WAAYYY too complicated !

Hell no. I've got a workbench w/ a Kong 1/2 finished since 2000-Freaking-7!!!! Last thing I
need is a 3D printer! Facebook is scary enuff at how many new STL files I run across
that I'd LOVE TO OWN!!

(although Robb's Rollerball Jonathan kit is a gotta have and will kick start my lazy ass
to build when it becomes available!)

[bucketfoot-al]

... when I saw the thread title I assumed it was about a resin 3D printer .... should have known you were a "stone age oldtimer" like myself ... there's less than zero chance I will ever dabble in such things ... life is getting WAAYYY too complicated !

Hell no. I've got a workbench w/ a Kong 1/2 finished since 2000-Freaking-7!!!! Last thing I
need is a 3D printer! Facebook is scary enuff at how many new STL files I run across
that I'd LOVE TO OWN!!

(although Robb's Rollerball Jonathan kit is a gotta have and will kick start my lazy ass
to build when it becomes available!)

Which Kong is it?

[Buc Wheat]

Which Kong is it?

This one:

[Heavy Metal Spike]

Just bought a new printer...HP DeskJet 2755e. It comes with a subscription service that monitors your ink levels and will ship you new ink cartridges when the levels get to a certain height.

About a month later, I get an email telling me that I have to keep the printer on so the WIFI connection can monitor my levels, and my suspicious mind throws up that nagging warning flag.

Suddenly I'm thinking, "That would make a cool book!" Do what AC Clarke did w/ 2001:A Space Odyssey... take the letters before IBM to make up HAL, one takes the next letters and makes up the IQ DeskJet 2755e!! A printer that monitors your home/office with a hidden mic and camera that watches over you...24.hours.a.day!!!

Freaked me out so much, I'm thinking of throwing a blanket over the whole damn thing, now!!

LOL


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[bucketfoot-al]

Which Kong is it?

This one:*SNIP*

Now you KNOW the "treatment" I have planned for this kit, don't you?

Why don't you finish it?

[Buc Wheat]

Which Kong is it?

This one:*SNIP*

Now you KNOW the "treatment" I have planned for this kit, don't you?

Why don't you finish it?

Yeah, I'm following your crazy ass over on the thread.

My son and family come up for xmas and he goes straight downstairs and sez,
"Yep! Still there! If it ever moves I'm gonna be lost!" <smartass!>

[bucketfoot-al]

Yeah, I'm following your crazy ass over on the thread.

My son and family come up for xmas and he goes straight downstairs and sez,
"Yep! Still there! If it ever moves I'm gonna be lost!" <smartass!>

[belrog999]

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