Interesting you compare US elites against monarchs. The better monarchs today don't really rule, they oversee the population. They like to see their subjects do well, provided it doesn't infringe on their lifestyle. By contrast much of the US elites, and trump in particular, seem to actively enjoy asserting control over the population and care little about their well being. They do share the benefit of being above the law, but only the monarchs will admit that.

Yes, but that plastic refill container is a single material, that hopefully would be recyclable type. An ink cartridge is make up of several materials making the recycling of them rather difficult in any meaningful way.

Yea, HP would be big enough dicks to try that on. Smart people will by brands like Brother. I guess the follow on legislation would be forcing the disclosure of per page print cost, but I guess HP would find a way to game that system too.

The simple solution, already popular with commercial inkjet printers, is to not have cartridges at all, instead have ink reservoirs that feed the print head and can simply be topped up by pouring ink in the top.

For A4 and A3 size printing laser printers are best way to go but if you want to print big, like large banners or whole walls, then the commercial grade tank style ink jet printers are used. They are really cool to watch in operation.

As for toner or drums with DRM that you be your typical HP offering. Instead buy a Brother, they are targeted at people who understand how to do basic maths on consumables, and still manage to have reasonable up front purchase costs. The one I brought recently and even appears to have full capacity toner cartridges include, not those bullshit 'sample' sized ones.

Why not? Printers already exist that support refills. They could be sold from day one and I'm guessing they will develop models from their existing tech that are cheaper to target LA and other markets that might follow such a trend. If a company doesn't want to make the effort they can simply leave that market. Consumers will probably bitch about the increased up front cost but should save money in the long run with cheaper refilling options.

Apparently you are not from the USA as you are TOTALLY using sarcasm which will TOTALLY go over the head of some here. As I see it not wanting to do due diligence or take responsibility for your work is totally on brand with the current US administration. Of course when they get pwned it will totally be Biden's fault.

Repulsive would be the opposite of attractive. For addictive the opposite could be boring.

In the early days you could go on Facebook, scroll thru new posts for a few minutes until you reached where you got to last time you visited then leave the site. That meant you only need to spend a modest time on the site each day to keep up to date with what was happening with your friends. Then they changed it and I found I could never reach where I was up to last visit and was spending a lot of time on the site for no good reason. That was the start of the endless scrolling implementation designed to keep you on their site for as long as possible and was when I stopped using Facebook.

One of the reasons I still use Slashdot decades after finding it is the lack of infinite scrolling, it is not an attention whore. I can spend a few minutes here several times a day without felling like I have wasted a whole lot of my day for nothing.

Who cares?

Interestingly I do often have free power as often the rural grid can't handle the surplus solar power I have and the inverters simply go into a power output limiting mode so the house voltage does not get to high. The catch is I sold my last thing that I routinely used that ran on gas, so I have no use for gas anymore. That last thing was a ride on mower which didn't cost much in gas but was always needing something fixed, typically belts, which my new electric ride on doesn't have. Shortly after I sold it the friend who brought it had to replace head gasket. Free gas isn't going to make the long term running of an ICE any less of a hassle.

Well now the USA is using AI to write the laws there I think the meat bags there remember the correct way to talk. The phrase you guys need to learn is "I for one welcome our AI overlords".

Regional limits was main reason I never subscribed to Netflix and the reason I will never subscribe to a streaming service that limits content in some region. They are really doing pirates a favor with that crap.

My point is that doesn't matter as much because once they are installed it doesn't matter much where solar panels came from. Regardless there would be merit in the EU promoting the production of solar panel within the EU. For energy security they should probably focus on EU made inverters for those solar panels to reduce the risk of a remote kill switch in ones from China or the USA.

I don't see much market for windmills as most milling is done using electric motors. They can be a good tourist attraction. On the other hand wind turbines are a good idea for the EU to focus on and I think they already do quite a few, it is tech which they are good at.

Nitpicking accepted. I had wondered about the term turbine too, but had no better word and turbine was the word being used by the people deploying them.

I guess my issue with trump is windmill and the those wind power generation devices, that I will refer to for convince sake as as wind turbines, is the juxtaposition of them. Here in New Zealand we have hundreds of wind turbines and only one operational windmill I know of. The wind turbines have a very industrial feel to them but the windmill gives off a very different vibe. If you are ever in New Zealand and passing thru Foxton on SH1 take break and checkout the De Molen windmill there, an exact replica of 17th century Dutch flour mill. See https://www.foxtonwindmill.co..... It only cost about $2 to explore the interior and is cool to watch in operation from the inside. The milliner will even sell you flour milled by the windmill. Contrary to what trump claims I saw no dead birds at the base of it.