Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly

cryptosporidium140@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Was gonna say I vaguely remember when HP implied some level of quality

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  • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    HP was indeed affordable and good. They made good laptops and laser printers for many years.

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    • pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Emphasis on the past tense.

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      • Alchemy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • DanglingFury@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Back in my day…

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  • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I remember Carly Fiorina getting hired and almost immediately things started turning to shit.

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    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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)).

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      • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Godort@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • VelociCatTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      HP and HPE are two separate companies.

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      • Godort@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I suppose that explains the difference in quality and usability

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      • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ooooooooh

        that explains a lot

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  • egeres@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• pfjarschel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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• IHeartBadCode@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Jokes on you. HP is moving into the energy sector with their spinning bodies with magnets attached.

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  • toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Classic Dilbert

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    • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • thantik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Reverse racism is nonsensical.

        It’s just racism.

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