Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Brother turns heel u0026 becomes anti-consumer printer company 😢 😢 😢" video.

  1. Yeah... sad. I was afraid this was going to happen sooner or later. The thing about Japanese companies is that while at the top they are late and kinda slow at the game, their role model is Big Tech and line goes up capitalism - tied to a stupid seniority based vertical structure that has the exact same mentality, if not outright copy the mentality of line goes up economics CEOs in the west. What people should expect from Japanese companies is that they'll slowly but surely start adopting the worst practices of western companies. They only didn't so far because they are slow. Ultimately, tons of CEOs of these big Japanese multinational all wanna look cool by believing the same neo-liberal crap that CEOs of western companies do. People familiar with other Japanese companies... like the gaming giants, car industry, finance among others, probably already noticed this. The ensh*ttification is also happening there. Naive me who a few decades ago believed that culture would put them in a better standing stopped believing this when I started reading and listening to what CEOs of Japanese companies had to say about tech and all sorts of other stuff. It was like hearing an US Big Tech and finance echo chamber. Not to mention how one of their richest investors is behind funding a whole ton of crap that has happened in finance and tech in the west for the past decade or so. But thanks for the heads up Louis, really appreciate it. I did throw away my HP Deskjet for a Brother Laser printer, but because I just don't trust printers to be connected to the Internet, I kept it local. While Brother still hadn't adopted that kinda anti-consumer crap just yet, the fact that their software looks like something out of Win XP with all these archaic looking crap, it just made me nervous about security in general. I have for a while been trying to put it into the local network, but now I'll just abandon that project. It's going to remain USB only, and no updates anymore. I also don't print much anymore, so it's not that much extra work to just go offline whenever I need to print something. Perhaps just connect it to an offline device and airgap it completely, passing files via pendrive.
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