This is why we can't have nice things....
Sep. 9th, 2009 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogDear Messrs. Hewlett and Packard, your successors and assigns:
It's bad enough you charge more, ounce for ounce, for your printer ink than Ms. Chanel does for the number 5 product of her fairly famed inventage.
It's worse, but barely tolerable, that you cause me to waste inordinate amounts of that ink any time I put a new cartridge in, on account of you forcing me to "align" my "cartridges" and "nagging" the "shit" out of me if I "don't."
It's totally unacceptable that a printer as simple and mainstream as yours could still have Vista compatibility issues when I bought it AFTER the release of Vista, which resulted in all my printer drivers just magically disappearing every week for the first two months after getting this Vista laptop. Fortunately, your downloads seem to have fixed that.
But. I did not ask for a pop-up in my lower right corner every time your all-in-one loads a document, prints a document, scans a document or sends or receives a fax document. You shoved this into one of those sparkly automatic updates and now I can't turn the gorram thing off. (I can turn off the process, but as soon as I print something, it inveigles itself right back in.)
Now cut it out or I'm coming out there to blow up your fucking garage.
It's bad enough you charge more, ounce for ounce, for your printer ink than Ms. Chanel does for the number 5 product of her fairly famed inventage.
It's worse, but barely tolerable, that you cause me to waste inordinate amounts of that ink any time I put a new cartridge in, on account of you forcing me to "align" my "cartridges" and "nagging" the "shit" out of me if I "don't."
It's totally unacceptable that a printer as simple and mainstream as yours could still have Vista compatibility issues when I bought it AFTER the release of Vista, which resulted in all my printer drivers just magically disappearing every week for the first two months after getting this Vista laptop. Fortunately, your downloads seem to have fixed that.
But. I did not ask for a pop-up in my lower right corner every time your all-in-one loads a document, prints a document, scans a document or sends or receives a fax document. You shoved this into one of those sparkly automatic updates and now I can't turn the gorram thing off. (I can turn off the process, but as soon as I print something, it inveigles itself right back in.)
Now cut it out or I'm coming out there to blow up your fucking garage.