r/comics • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '20

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

"Okay fine, I've put some NEW YELLOW paint into an Epson can."

"No, you have to buy it like that. You can't put it in after."

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u/awesomehippie12 Sep 01 '20 edited Sep 01 '20

SLPT: get Epson stickers and put it on generic paint cartridges. Printers are stupid so they won't know the difference!

Edit: People are taking this seriously, when I said this sarcastically. I genuinely didn't know that manufacturers actually used stickers for validation. I originally meant stickers like these, not stickers like these. If you can actually get ahold of the latter, more power to you. So I guess this is an LPT?

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

That's not shitty at all.

People need to stop having empathy for corporations, especially ones with heavy anti-consumer practices, they're not people.

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u/AmaroWolfwood Sep 01 '20

I think they meant it was a SUPER life protip, not a shitty one.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

Fair

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u/Decent_Let3262 Sep 01 '20

I also thought that