Human Brain EnthusiastEverything “HP” is terrible.
The books, the printers, the lovecraft, the sauce.
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@thomasfuchs I will not have you disparaging HP Sauce by comparing it to Mr Racist Sci-Fi Man
@thomasfuchs (it's definitely no ketchup, but it's great in stews)
@thomasfuchs although actually, there is one exception: HP test equipment slaps. especially the 60s and 70s era stuff, but the modern stuff too. the Apollo program would never have happened without HP's gear.
@gsuberland yeah they used to be a real company
@thomasfuchs they still do make some top notch metrology gear, but yeah, anything consumer facing very much went downhill.
Ignas Kiela@gsuberland @thomasfuchs HP still makes metrology gear??? Thought it was entirely separate these days
@ignaloidas @thomasfuchs oh, maybe? I thought it still had a HP badge at least
@gsuberland @thomasfuchs as far as I can tell, HP these days is consumer only (HPE is an entirely different company with a different ticker, same for Agilent and Keysight)
curtosisYep. 4 separate companies.
“HP Inc.”(HPQ) makes enshittified consumer printers and computers.
“Hewlett Packard Enterprise” (HPE) is what it says on the tin. Enterprise (mostly big; they own Cray and SGI) machines and networking (Aruba).
“Agilent” (A) is now all biotech and life sciences lab and clinical equipment; used to include the test & measurement equipment.
“Keysight” (KEYS) is now the successor of the legendary HP test equipment lineage.
Michael Newton@[email protected] @[email protected] I will not have you disparaging hp sauce by comparing it to tomato coloured sugar syrup!
Third spruce tree on the left@mavnn plus everyone knows 57 sauce is the best except we're now allowed to have in Canada anymore.