• @[email protected]
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      4111 months ago

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

    • Dr. Bob
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      2311 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        511 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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          511 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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            111 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      1011 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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      311 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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      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.