Which is a terrible app. I made the mistake of buying a HP printer and that app crashes more than it works (and the printer doesn’t work without it, of course).
Wait, you have to have an app to print? On Windows? Can’t you just install the driver and print using the Windows print interface? I understand that they have software that might have extra features, but basic printing should only require a driver, at most.
If it’s a scanner too, you can’t use half of it.
Most of HP’s printers have a “Basic Print and Scan Driver” that is listed as “For IT Professional use only” on their support page. I fear the day where HP Smart is the only option.
Try it.
On USB with the basic driver specifically, modern HP printers will let you use the device for exactly 10 print jobs before it locks all functionality and demands that the unit be connected to the network and an HP account registered.
Do not buy them. Find a brother instead.
Wasn’t that on Wifi-only devices, where the USB was still there for mass production cost saving reasons?
But yeah, don’t buy HP; message received years ago already.
Never use anything hp branded if you can help it
I told my girlfriend (now wife) when we moved in together that i had over rule: you’re not allowed to purchase anything HP. May the company burn in hell.
Make messes, leave food sitting out, invite shady people over…just for God’s sake don’t bring an HP product into my home!
Install Linux. Saying it yet again. Be done with this crap, install Linux, if really really necessary, have wincrap in a VM, and now enjoy your computer
No. I like being able to play games without having to check if I can play them and really dont want to be associates with annoying af people promoting linux everywhere
The Windows machines I manage at work have been auto downloading all kinds of shit like this lately. Microsoft is becoming really trashy.
The EU to the rescue.
Not using products made to milk you to the rescue.
Normally yes, but not using Windows is just not an option for most people, if they’re not Mac users and aren’t tech savvy enough to use Linux.
Even if they are Mac users or tech savvy, not using Windows is often not an option. So many proprietary programs are Windows only.
Yeah Michaelsoft we get it, you own the OS not us. Now quit doing this shit before you get slapped with more anti-trust lawsuits.
I’ll never install a legit copy of Windows anymore. For personal use I am using trusted enough modified versions that limit bloat and connections to Microsoft services. And I probably use those once a month.
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I started messing with Linux to build a home server a few months ago. I am now fully in the Linux/FOSS cult, and as soon as I figure out how to either run Adobe on Linux or use the alternative software, I am nuking Windows on my personal computers. The bloatware is insufferable, not to mention shit like this.
at least if it’s auto-installed, you don’t need to have your windows tied to a microsoft account just to set up your damn printer. there’s some models where the stand-alone driver installer just doesn’t work worth a shit, and the ‘app’ is the only thing that works (there’s also a few that go the other way, the ‘app’ fails but the stand-alone driver is fine).
Last Time I used the windows store you could install apps without an account, as long as they where free
Imagine running an OS that doesn’t even respect you. I use Arch btw.
Arch has disrespected me every time I’ve tried to install it.
For me it was the exact opposite. It did exactly what I told it to do.
Autofellatio Linux crowd assemble!
Imagine
That’s is so overused. Is this the new ‘litchally’?
I wondered what was happening. I got a notice my daughter installed this app (under 13 account) and was like why would she do that. We don’t have any HP devices. Brother for life.
Brother for life.
You bet it. I got one toner refill for like $6 for Brother laser printer which is happily chugging along with factory installed drum after 2600 pages printed during over 6 year period. No DRM, no driver drama, and you know what happens to jet printers with such sporadic usage.
That would explain why my Win10 desktop recently had an HP popup. There is a HP printer in the building but I’ve never printed to it from the desktop.
Seems like it’s getting installed on PCs which have an HP printer nearby even though they never used it. I don’t have any printer at home and none of them have any HP app in them.
I removed the official Microsoft Store and use Bloatnosey. Seems much better. You do need to recheck after any update though. Sneaky stuff.
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HP stands for heinous product.
macOS gaming can’t come soon enough
Linux gaming is already here.
