• @9point6
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    691 year ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      411 year ago

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

        • @Alchemy
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          81 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.

          • @HerrBeter
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            81 year ago

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

            • @Alchemy
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              31 year ago

              I think my Mcovfee subscription had just expired. Should have known better!

    • Dr. Bob
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      231 year ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        51 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)).

        • Dr. Bob
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          51 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.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 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.

    • @egeres
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      31 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

    • no banana
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      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 - it was simply the best deal at the time)… Bloat. Bloat everywhere in windows.