I just attended a @pluralistic talk hosted by the @internetarchive , in which he shared that thanks to #enshittification, printer ink now costs over $10K/gallon, more expensive than semen from a prize-winning racehorse.
I searched and found this is also mentioned in his Feb 2025 essay: pluralistic.net/2025/02/22/ink…
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Pax Ahimsa Gethen • • •After Epson bricked my last printer a couple of years ago, I decided not to buy another personal ink jet printer. There have been some slight inconveniences, but not as many as I worried there would be.
A trip to the neighborhood print shop when something absolutely has to be printed is less stressful than owning a printer that can be bricked whenever the corporation feels like it.
The ink jet cartel needs to be broken.
#Enshittification