• notaviking@lemmy.world
    5 hours

    Great news for the foundation, still sorry HP but you have burned me regarding your printers

  • Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml
    9 hours

    FYI HP (and Dell, but not Lenovo) are priority targets on the BDS list. Please do not support them even if they support Linux.

    • vort3@lemmy.ml
      10 hours

      What’s the “BDS” list? Never heard of it.

        • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          52 minutes

          Sooo, i get it but this still doesn’t explain what BDS is. Boycott Dis Shit?

          edit- my ADHD ass missed the link.

          Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          17 minutes

          I hate when I already don’t buy from any of these companies, so I can’t really join the boycott for this. At least some of them I am boycotting for other reasons, not just because they make a shit product. Intell, for example, I’ll buy from AMD every time first.

        • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
          8 hours

          … Why… or how, would McDonald’s support Israel and the IDF?

          I mean, that seems such an easy target to avoid and just go “I’m staying out of this one” for any company, but McDonald’s? That just has to be for the sport

    • phar@lemmy.world
      9 hours

      Damn I just looked that up and WIX is on the list. WTF, WIX? Damnit

      • Egonallanon@feddit.uk
        9 hours

        They’re an Israeli company so they’re included by default. I think they just get their own entry as they a decently large organisation.

        • phar@lemmy.world
          7 hours

          Oh wow I did not realize that’s where they are from. Really too bad because they make quality filters. That’s okay I will buy a different brand regardless

  • quantumvoid0@programming.devEnglish
    10 hours

    ik HP has a Linux laptop and all but this company is definitely the last company I thought would do smt like this

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
      2 hours

      Think about it. Right now, windows is a fucking hog of an OS. It takes up huge space, gas huge overhead, and needs huge amounts of ram. Ram and storage are expensive as hell right now.

      Linux can run well on a laptop on decade old tech (One of my old laptops is literally from 2016 and runs Linux mint butter smooth).

      So by promoting Linux, HP can sell a laptop with less ram and less storage, that doesn’t run like shit. Saves them loads of money. They may not give a flying fuck about Linux. This still helps their bottom line.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      9 hours

      high-usage vendors like hp (and dell, lenovo previously reported on) have to start paying-in to support the operating costs of the service.

      they certainly aren’t doing it because they want to.

    • 9point6@lemmy.world
      9 hours

      They’ve still got a pretty hefty server division and increasingly not using HP/UX, no?

      Self preservation seems like a fairly obvious motivator