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~~Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals~~ [see comments] (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Brother deny the claims:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/

via https://startrek.website/comment/15279250

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm only letting my latest Brother printer connect to my computer through the USB cable. No Internet connection at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

RPi as a printer server, with the printer connected to its USB port. Use FreeBSD on RPi just to make sure...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Careful with that you though. I thought the same thing but someone pointed out in another thread that depending on your system, it may update the firmware over USB when you do system updates.