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I don’t have a printer anymore and honestly, most come with features I’m absolutely not interested in.
You mean you don’t like subscribing to HP so they can disable your printer if you don’t pay up?
That’s one of them, I don’t want a printer with WiFI either. I’ll just connect it up to my computer directly preferably.
imma need a link to the sauce for that art
i believe in horny furry benevolence
What a nice person. Freaky, but nice.
This (very explicit) image has some funny comments related to this over at the MSG site.
I love the internet.
Oooo what could I search for to find it?
Artist is Sepiaflux, post ID is 4681316.
Bless you. Love the comments bahahaha.
Edit: I totally have that fluffy boi’s dong in my bad dragon collection lawl
Second edit: nah I have some similar ones, but that looks closest to a Kelvin and I never ended up snagging one of those.
Didn’t know they had a model like that. I picked up a Knorse from Weredog recently. Turns out that particular model got so popular they got backlogged. 😞
Joke asides, why would you open ports on your printer?
My guess is that something (printer or related software) forward the ports automatically with UPnP, which many people don’t even realize is enabled on their router.
Could you elaborate more? My printer doesn’t use internet at all and I would just plugg that into my laptop whenever I want to print.
A lot of modern printers are hooked up to your router either via cable or WiFi rather than directly to your computer.
UPnP stands for Universal Plug and Play. It allows devices on a network to find each other easier. In some cases, UPnP can also do port forwarding to let external devices or services access your network easier. It’s not that uncommon in say video games where different video game clients need to talk to one another.
I’m honestly not sure why a printer would do that. Incompetent or malicious printer manufacturers perhaps. There is plenty of proof for the latter.
I’m not really a networking goddess but I think having ports open to VPN traffic is a good idea.
That’s safest for sure. Many printers can connect to the local network so that anyone on the same network can print to them. Some broadcast that service locally so that computers (with the correct software support) automatically detect them, though some don’t. Either way, the actual printing is done by sending data to a local port on the printer (targeted by IP address).
UPnP is a protocol that (in this context) lets devices on a local network request the router to forward Internet traffic on a certain port to a local device’s port. So rather than just local network devices being able to send print jobs, anyone on the internet could. It’s commonly used for web services or multiplayer video games.
Beats me, I don’t even have networking set up on my printer. I just use a USB cable. I actually have one of those fancy cables which has a split end with a USB A cable and a USB C cable so I can unplug my PC and plug in my printer to my phone if I want.
Same. My printer probably doesn’t have internet capability. It has a USB A cable that I can just plug into. Simple, and it does its job well.
I haven’t owned a printer in 20+ years, so I’m no expert, but maybe they come by default as open?
