I believe the cost is more to do with the electronic components. Ink cartridges are kind of like the OG disposable electronics and now we have disposable vapes.

Friend, I think you may have stumbled upon quite the lovely litmus test of a company’s culture. Thanks for sharing that story.

Oh cool. I didn’t realize the cam rip was the original.

Direct link for the lazy like me: https://archive.org/details/videoplayback_20251223_1653

Bahaha. I guess I grew up with these in Utah and thought nothing of it it. Even made a couple in high school shop class.