Totally tangental but now that iPhone users are using RCS the chances of successfully sending them a message feels like its dropped by half to me-- that is about half the time my messages aren't getting through, to multiple individuals.
Other people are commenting that Brothers are getting kind of enshittified like these HPs have been know to do forcing people to use "HP+" and subscribing to ink on their discounted models.
There appears to be a thriving secondary market for pre-enshittification Brother laser printers. I wonder if anybody maintains a list of the "good models?"
What is it about printers where all the makers exhibit the most egregious dark patterns, the flakiest products, and the worst software design in the drivers, out of any tech product? Is the toner in the air giving them all brain rot?
My Brother combo laser printer/scanner just flashed a message about some "firmware update, features have been removed" but I can't tell what they were and don't notice anything different with the basic scan/print I do. Other than that, its worked pretty well.