As someone who works extensively with the spin offs instruments, I can safely say that they would be just as outraged. They are all bad quality, fail VERY frequently, and, guess what, you have to subscribe to be able to use all the features of the hardware you bought.
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cryptosporidium140@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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pfjarschel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 8 months ago
Jokes on you. HP is moving into the energy sector with their spinning bodies with magnets attached.
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
thefartographer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I still can’t believe his cartoon got cancelled due to reverse racism… No, seriously, I can NOT believe that he actually says that shit.
thantik@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I can’t stand that term. “Reverse Racism” implies that Racism is supposed to go a specific direction. Anyone who uses it is Racist themselves.
It’s just Racism.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Reverse racism is nonsensical.
It’s just racism.
9point6@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Was gonna say I vaguely remember when HP implied some level of quality
dan1101@lemm.ee 8 months ago
HP was indeed affordable and good. They made good laptops and laser printers for many years.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Emphasis on the past tense.
Alchemy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Strong emphasis. I had an HP laptop in college in 2006. I believe I took good care of it. It freezes one day in the middle of homework, I pull the battery out in frustration. It never turned on again. No idea what I did but it died.
DanglingFury@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Back in my day…
DrBob@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I remember Carly Fiorina getting hired and almost immediately things started turning to shit.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I don’t know, it often seems that the prior ceo (often with the help of the board) sets a company up for quick profits, but long term doom. Then he leaves and they miraculously hit their first female CEO (see GM, Yahoo, Reddit, Blizzard, Twitter (currently)).
DrBob@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I don’t disagree with that, but she knew exactly what she was brought in to do and jumped in with both feet. Would it have been someone else if she turned the gig down? Of course. But she said yes so it was her.
Godort@lemm.ee 8 months ago
HP is still plenty serviceable as long as you’re getting HP Enterprise. The consumer stuff has been trash for almost 20 years now.
VelociCatTurd@lemmy.world 8 months ago
HP and HPE are two separate companies.
Godort@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I suppose that explains the difference in quality and usability
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ooooooooh
that explains a lot
egeres@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Actually, they are still ahead of the competition in industrial printing, their indigo and pagewide web presses are very good and reliable, but of course those products belongs to a whole different market segment
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Running Linux on a HP Victus desktop. The hardware is fine (I got it at a good price when my last home built PC crapped out and graphics cards were overpriced)… Bloat. Bloat everywher in windows.