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Why HP Fell

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Re: Why HP Fell

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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

"Kill Sticky Headers" Bookmarklet

https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

Or Reader modes in Safari, Firefox, as mentioned.

Re: Why HP Fell

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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

It's a real blight on the web these days.

No, I don't want to install your bullshit app [0]. Stop wasting the real-estate at the top of my screen.

And at the bottom of the screen, they often have another floating bar, asking if I'm ok with cookies. (Of course, the website loads just fine without me having clicked 'Ok', so either they're asking permission for something that does nothing, or they're asking permission only after having done it.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5162841

Re: Why HP Fell

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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 ...

On mobile, 1Blocker for iOS can do this and remember your settings per-domain (‘Hide Page Element’). My primary use for this feature is Medium

Re: Why HP Fell

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Love their business laptops, good and reliable machines.

I swore off ever buying HP products after I bought an HP Envy with a year warranty and exactly after one year, the hinges wouldn't work. I still used it but just at home, until the hard drive had a catastrophic failure and I lost everything.

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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 terrib…

When I was doing C in the early 2000's, our ANSI C code would cope with Aix, Linux, NT/2000 and Solaris.

But on HP-UX 11 we still had a version of aCC that was a mix between ANSI and K&R, so it was the variant with more pre-processor logic.

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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.

Also, past the LaserJet 5, their printers started taking a nosedive in quality. In my own experience at work, the 1000 didn't last long before it started spewing toner all over the page, and the 4550N, a gigantic color laser with extremely expensive consumables, did likewise.

Don't get me started on their inkjets. Nothing like an all-in-one that won't even let you SCAN when it decides to "expire" a costly printhead.

My policy regarding HP printers: "Never again."

Re: Why HP Fell

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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.

Agreed. It’s classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” stuff right up until the Fiorina era which was just wanton destruction for the sake of being seen to do something but having no idea what.

Re: Why HP Fell

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Love their business laptops, good and reliable machines.

I swore off ever buying HP products after I bought an HP Envy with a year warranty and exactly after one year, the hinges wouldn't work. I still used it but just at home, until the hard drive had a catastrophic failure and I lost everything.

Every model of hard drive fails sometimes, and with rare exceptions the rate is more or less the same.

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Love their business laptops, good and reliable machines.

As well as a live fleet of about 30 units, we have about 5 HP Probooks at work in different states of dismantlement; they fell apart or broke in various mechanical ways and are cannibalised to sustain the working ones. In my previous role we were a Dell shop and the XPS laptops were much more reliable by comparison.
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