

I also stopped buying HP for a nearly identical reason. My brand new printer was 1 day out of warranty, I had gotten it as a gift unboxed it, and it wouldn’t connect to Wi-Fi (had no hardware ports on it only WiFi).
Those fuckers told me I could either:
A. Subscribe to their ink subscription plan and they’d tell me how to fix it.
B. Pay $75 one time and they’d tell me how to fix it.
I threw that motherfucker in the trash that day and then bought a cheap Cannon (no brothers in stock) that still works over a decade later.
Fuck HP completely.
Truer words have never been spoken.