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HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …

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HP printer USB port covered with warning sticker in hopes you won't use it | Boing Boing

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JFC! HP sucks. Just buy a Brother laser printer used and never worry about it because it's bulletproof and a workhorse.
- And will work OOTB on Linux with CUPS. Easiest process ever.
  
  I don't know what CUPS is, but I had 3 major reservations about switching my barely functional computer to Linux:
  Ive never worked in Linux before
  My dive computer only uploads to proprietary software using a proprietary cable.
  My Brother laser printer was working SO well wirelessly. It's the first time I've ever not hated my printer
  Turns out some amazing people made open source dive logging software so I can still download my dives.
  And for printing, I meant to get around to setting it up, then one day I forgot and accidentally printed something and it just worked. I was so shocked that for a bit I assumed that reformatting the hard drive and changing operating systems must've somehow preserved my printer settings.
  
  Start with something simple like Mint or Fedora. It's quite easy to use.
  Can you be more specific about the specific cable and software? Odds are it works, or it can work with some tinkering.
  Brother printers work great in Linux in my experience.
  
  While your advice is sound, I think you might not have read @jrubal1462's comment in full. They already installed Linux, found FOSS alternatives for the proprietary dive software and their printer, to their shock, worked OOTB.
  
  Is your device supported by https://subsurface.github.io/SupportedDivecomputers/ ?
  
  Yup! I had a little difficulty communicating with the computer, but all I had to do was add my user to the "dial-out" group and it worked like a charm.
  
  Exactamundo!

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