I’ll start: printers.
I bought an HP in March 2020 when my job went remote and HP bricked it remotely after only 100 pages because I wouldn’t sign up for their subscription program. Ended up trashing a perfectly good printer.
Luckily my library’s close by and I can print there remotely.
The problem with every laser printer is, eventually, they’ll stop making toner cartridges for them. That’s what made my perfectly serviceable Samsung printer garbage.
I was looking today at buying a cheap Brother laser printer, for the rare times when I want to print something. But, I saw that it was introduced in 2019, and I can just imagine what will happen. I still might get it and just stock up on cartridges, I haven’t decided.
Toner refill kits help with this.
I got sick of the experience that every time I wanted to print, my ink had dried out. So I went on eBay and found an office style Ricoh color laser, scanner, fax combo one. I think I spent about 250 on it.
When the first toner (the first ones are not fully filled) ran out, I bought powder and chips on Amazon. I refilled the cartridges and used the new chips and boom.
Cost for that was like 30 bucks. Official cartridges were hundreds.
I got a Brother MFCL2750DW back in 2018. It is still going strong. My most recent toner refill was from an off brand. Zero issues with that.
My Samsung ML-1710 (from 2004) was put out of service because of the new OSes… Am going to dual bot my work machine and reintall MacOS 10.9 Mavericks, to run it and the rest of the old 32-bit graphics software I still use.