• @dan1101@lemm.ee
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        407 months ago

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

      • Dr. Bob
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        237 months ago

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

        • @nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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          57 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)).

          • Dr. Bob
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            57 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.

            • @nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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              17 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.

      • @Godort@lemm.ee
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        107 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.

      • @egeres@lemmy.world
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        37 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

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

    • @pfjarschel@lemmy.world
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      157 months 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.

    • IHeartBadCode
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      147 months ago

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