Why HP Fell

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Post by robin_reala » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 4:32 AM UTC

Re: Why HP Fell

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Post by amelius » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 9:17 AM UTC

Does anyone know how to make the annoyingly large Medium top-bar, and "open in app" button (hovering over the article) on mobile go away without installing anything?

Edit: found one solution: https://outline.com/SV3V7N

Re: Why HP Fell

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Post by B1FF_PSUVM » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 9:23 AM UTC

amelius wrote: post #2

Does anyone know how to make the annoyingly large Medium top-bar, and "open in app" button (hovering over the article) on mobile go away without installing anything? Edit: found one solution: https://outline.com/SV3V7N

If you have one of those browsers with builtin DOM element inspection/editing, you can make it go away by deleting the respective item. A bit cumbersome ...

Re: Why HP Fell

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Post by martinpw » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 9:34 AM UTC

amelius wrote: post #2

Does anyone know how to make the annoyingly large Medium top-bar, and "open in app" button (hovering over the article) on mobile go away without installing anything? Edit: found one solution: https://outline.com/SV3V7N

Reader view in Firefox cleans up the Medium cruft nicely on mobile.

Re: Why HP Fell

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Post by paulcarroty » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 9:50 AM UTC

Love their business laptops, good and reliable machines.

Re: Why HP Fell

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Post by deadbunny » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:30 AM UTC

martinpw wrote: post #4

amelius wrote: post #2

Does anyone know how to make the annoyingly large Medium top-bar, and "open in app" button (hovering over the article) on mobile go away without installing anything? Edit: found one solution: https://outline.com/SV3V7N

Reader view in Firefox cleans up the Medium cruft nicely on mobile.

Desktop too.

Re: Why HP Fell

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Post by ddebernardy » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:30 AM UTC

amelius wrote: post #2

Does anyone know how to make the annoyingly large Medium top-bar, and "open in app" button (hovering over the article) on mobile go away without installing anything? Edit: found one solution: https://outline.com/SV3V7N

Create a "Clean Up" bookmarklet:

    javascript:(function()%7B(function%20()%20%7Bvar%20i%2C%20elements%20%3D%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*')%3Bfor%20(i%20%3D%200%3B%20i%20%3C%20elements.length%3B%20i%2B%2B)%20%7Bif%20(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position%20%3D%3D%3D%20'fixed')%20%7Belements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B%7D%7D%7D)()%7D)()

Re: Why HP Fell

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Post by masklinn » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:35 AM UTC

martinpw wrote: post #4

amelius wrote: post #2

Does anyone know how to make the annoyingly large Medium top-bar, and "open in app" button (hovering over the article) on mobile go away without installing anything? Edit: found one solution: https://outline.com/SV3V7N

Reader view in Firefox cleans up the Medium cruft nicely on mobile.

Likewise Safari's (mobile or not).

Re: Why HP Fell

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Post by ahartmetz » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:59 AM UTC

The story does not seem very convincing to me. The split between lab instruments and computers - may actually help fix the next problem. The disregard of consumer products - partially fixed later when they managed to sell large numbers of printers and not only business laptops.

So maybe the big problems did start around Fiorina's time after all.

Re: Why HP Fell

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Post by reacweb » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 11:17 AM UTC

At school (1991-1994), we had HP and Sun workstations. The HP were nicknamed the toasters because they were hot. The Sun were beautiful beasts. After power failure, we regularly had problems with Sun, never with HP. When we were downloading games from the net, it was easy to compile them on Sun, but was always a nighmare on HP (non standard includes, libraries, ...). I think HP is excellent about hardware, but terrible for software. I often see the similar problem for car makers: good cars but with a terrible computer.