Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly

• dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Emphasis on the past tense.

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    • Alchemy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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      • HerrBeter@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Did you pay for the antifreeze? That’s probably why

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  • DanglingFury@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Back in my day…

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• DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨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)).

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    • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh yeah, I forgot to add that Carly specifically does is probably a pretty terrible person (hard not to be when vying for republican office). Good point.

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• Godort@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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  • VelociCatTurd@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    HP and HPE are two separate companies.

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    • Godort@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I suppose that explains the difference in quality and usability

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    • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ooooooooh

      that explains a lot

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• egeres@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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

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• ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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