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Human Brain EnthusiastEverything “HP” is terrible.
The books, the printers, the lovecraft, the sauce.
Leah Neukirchen@thomasfuchs the calculators were great tho!
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.
Irenerd 🐌@thomasfuchs in spanish HP is Hijo de Puta
Ben Cox@thomasfuchs And I never have enough hit points either. Or horizontal pitch for my modular synths.
CM Harrington@thomasfuchs fuck, I think you’re on to something.
Josh Grant@thomasfuchs good observation here
F. Söderlund@thomasfuchs the sauce is fine. 🤘
Amin Girasol@saklart @thomasfuchs faint praise!
Samir Parikh
Andrew Furrow@thomasfuchs what about the wizard book franchise? I’ve never had the sauce, can’t judge it.
Eli the BeardedThe HP franchise is terrible, too
Dirk Haun@thomasfuchs Germans will agree and add H.P. Baxxter to your list 🙉
Stu@thomasfuchs Yup. Sure. Not read them, Those are fighting words, sir.
jimfl@thomasfuchs My H.P. Lovecraft has an error: “Please replace the Eldritch Horror cartridge“
Wendroid 🇺🇦@thomasfuchs The legislative body?
We the People...@thomasfuchs I've been using an HP printer for over 30 years without a single repair.
EduCoder@thomasfuchs ..., the hit points, ...
malte@thomasfuchs the exception would be the original hp,com created by a teenager learning and sharing how to create homepages, and who got sued by hewlett-packard because they were a bit late to the party (internet) 😢
@thomasfuchs , the baxxter 😬