What's happened, imo, is that such tech advances has picked up the pace of monetization. back in, say the 70's, companies didn't have tech like RFID to vendor-lock you or the internet to enable subscription hardware. I'll admit that better technology enables more corporate greed. If companies weren't as greedy, we could have smart devices and other things without the downsides.īut if we keep the greed and ditch the smart devices, we're still screwed. I think the mentality is the more important part. However, making smart devices illegal says to businesses "what you're doing isnt wrong, it's the people who cant be trusted with these devices", whereas regulation says "you cant be trusted to behave responsibly". Yes, if all the above got regulated tomorrow, there would be some new slimy scheme of businesses the day after. We don't want to be spied on (ala GDPR), we don't want to be beholden to a particular company for supplies (ala OP), we don't want forced obsolescence (ala OP), and we don't want subscriptions for absolutely everything (there's an example of an air bag for motorcyclists that will not deploy unless you have an active subscription). What we don't want is specific uses of these devices. I like my smart tv and don't have cable service. Smart phones are nearly as big as the internet. Technology bans usually fail when it bans something people want. If that's your definition of banning, I'm all for it. GDPR is an example of regulation, not banning technology. The only thing Dymo did here is get people to stop buying their products. I did get word that our software provider is aggressively looking at alternatives. If we had to buy nothing but Dymo branded rolls our costs per year would go from around $1500 to over $18,000. Our co-op also makes a custom pre-printed label that is unusable with new printers. The Dymo branded rolls are $14 to $16 each.Īdditionally we use colored labels for certain processes. Thus we buy them in bulk for just over $1 per roll. We go through a LOT of labels of about 3 different sizes. The rest were old stock without it, and they obviously don't work. Except only one of those rolls were new stock labels with the chip. The vendor we ordered a machine from shipped a 550 series printer and they always ship a few rolls of labels to get started with. We got burned by the first 550 series already. Stock of 450 printers is already drying up fast, and what is left available is going for 2-4x the price. And we are kinda stuck with them for now because the software we use only supports Dymo printers. Yeah I am not looking forward to dealing with this in the coming months.Īt work we have a sizable fleet of Dymo 450 printers. some months ago I needed a label printer, and after decades (literally) buying Dymo for home and all the IT departments I worked in, I bought this time a Brother for home, just to have the choice of using unbranded tapes I wasn't the only one and I hope they will eventually take a hit.Īs I said in a few YT channels now regarding this topic. I roasted them on Amazon (where they are using the reviews from the old models to push this crap series). Those hacks are great, but will be just the beginning of a chase between them improving their DRM and the good guys bypassing it again, having a trail of people without resources to keep up left behind. We all as a collective must respond to this shit with the only response they will listen to: money (or the lack of it).Īllowing this shit is just a door open for other brands to jump in. I think the only proper way is buying a different brand, and roasting Dymo so the normies will hopefully run from them. A plainly brilliant solution for those who bought by mistake, but also necessarily those skilled enough to do this kind of shit, that sure are no few people here, but overall a tiny fraction of the customer base.įor everybody else.
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