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Humphreys posted:Has anyone found a decent rechargable compressed air sprayer? Wanting to knock out my constant purchase of canned air. I'd probably recommend going on amazon for something like this, but if you really wanna do ali, https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003649099842.html
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I got a lot of devalt/Makita power tool battery, is the aliexpress dual use blower/vacuum tool good for car vacuum?
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r u ready to WALK posted:I should have read the fine print, the m2 slot is sata only. My spare nvme stick didn't work even though it has the right connector type Speaking of tiny mystery boxes I bought this one for my mom to replace her 12 year old compaq.  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004260803924.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.74.105218020UIPRi She uses to go to facebook, play solitaire, plants vs. zombies, and stardew valley. Works great. Only problem she has had is the UI changes jumping from Windows 7 to Windows 11. Well, and that this doesn't have a DVD drive so she can't use it to watch movies, she didn't watch movies on her old computer either but she liked that it was theoretically an option. Other than the lack of DVDs it is a great computer for grandmas and such.
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Apr 5, 2023 14:57
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Get a sharpie and draw a long line on it, then say you upgraded it to include a dvd drive.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Speaking of tiny mystery boxes I bought this one for my mom to replace her 12 year old compaq. if it really becomes a point you can get an external drive and velcro them together
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Apr 5, 2023 15:07
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I am still trying to process that Compaq was still producing computers for the consumer market 12 years ago.
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Apr 5, 2023 15:55
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They're a subdivision of HP now.
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Apr 5, 2023 16:56
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HP shouldn't still exist.
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goatface posted:HP shouldn't still exist. Hewlitt Pack it up
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Apr 5, 2023 17:03
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What about that cow spot company? Who owns that? Tiger Direct?
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stephenthinkpad posted:What about that cow spot company? Who owns that? Tiger Direct? Acer I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhSK0pL3B-8
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stephenthinkpad posted:What about that cow spot company? Who owns that? Tiger Direct? Acer now owns Gateway Computers, piebald gem of the silicon prairie Efb
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stephenthinkpad posted:What about that cow spot company? Who owns that? Tiger Direct? Good Lord, I had completely forgotten about Tiger Direct for probably about a decade until this post. It also reminded me about PRicewatch which is also gone. Unperson_47 fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Apr 5, 2023 |
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Apr 5, 2023 17:18
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goatface posted:HP shouldn't still exist. Their current systems are fine. Not great, but fine. I still recommend them to people who just need a basic Windows box and don't want to do anything fancy.
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Apr 5, 2023 17:31
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Unperson_47 posted:Good Lord, I had completely forgotten about Tiger Direct for probably about a decade until this post. It also reminded me about PRicewatch which is also gone. I still have an old Tiger direct tower at work. I use it to send programs to an old cnc mill.
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Apr 5, 2023 17:46
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HP is trash. We used to always wind up with them at my old gov job because gov has no money so the HP vendor would always win the tender. Just absolute garbonzo.
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Unperson_47 posted:PRicewatch which is also gone. Pretty sure I knew this already, but yeah it’s a bummer. Is there any modern equivalent? And yes, avoid HP if you can. gently caress HP
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worst PC and printer my parents owned and I had to maintain were HP. I've had to service poo poo tablets and phones they bought off QVC that were/are better products. Had a Cow
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namlosh posted:Pretty sure I knew this already, but yeah it’s a bummer. Is there any modern equivalent? HP laptops are all made to be procurement bait
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:They're a subdivision of HP now. My dad actually worked for them through that process, I can’t remember when they stopped the Compaq badging. Oh the days of the Pretty-Sorry-O
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Apr 5, 2023 20:38
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It's a bit sad that HP used to make some of the best lab equipment in the world and now the brand is just slapped on some of the worst computers money can buy.
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Professionals here used to pronounce Hewlett-Packard as Hewlett-Paskard (which is... sort of cromulent). Paska is Finnish for "poo poo". Thanks for reading.
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r u ready to WALK posted:I should have read the fine print, the m2 slot is sata only. My spare nvme stick didn't work even though it has the right connector type https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-knNu1YA4Q You probably don't need it for your purpose but it looks like you can get some extra performance by cranking up the power limit in BIOS to 30W. Which I don't really get, my N5100 won't go over 8W of package power at full frequency so it seems weird Intel would juice the N100 like that.
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Apr 6, 2023 09:23
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So how did Hewlett Packard "die"? I remember that in the late 80s and early 90s they had good stuff. Thinking of the pretty drat durable but affordable HP deskjet 500 printers, some super heavy color ones from a bit after that. I assume that was still part of the "old" HP. Then i kinda lost track of what they made. And suddenly they're making crappy laptops in the mid 2000s.
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LimaBiker posted:So how did Hewlett Packard "die"? In 1999 they spun off their lab equipment as a company called Agilent, which is still around, but hilariously spun off the electronics test equipment division again as a company called Keysight in 2014. Agilent still exists but I'm having a hard time working out precisely what they do now without the electronics test equipment division - something to do with medical testing, can't quite tell if it's equipment or services. Keysight gear is still extremely well regarded in electronics. This doesn't fully answer the question of why, but it's definitely why the HP brand no longer means expensive test equipment.
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LimaBiker posted:So how did Hewlett Packard "die"? I imagine printers and computers stopped being profitable and became a commodity did a number on them
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HP also spun off HP Enterprise for networking gear, software and consulting so I imagine the original HP is just one guy sitting in a basement who was never informed that the company is dead now. E: new finger chopper just dropped  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004728085119.html also this butthole warmer  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004655532031.html Probably not "new" new but I've never seen these come up mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Apr 6, 2023 |
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Looking for a cheap poncho / hooded blanket I can take camping, something that it doesn’t matter if I fall asleep in it in the dirt. There’s lots of viking / Norse motifs, verging into symbols used by / appropriated by nazi wannabes. This one was kind of uplifting in its proper ali strangeness. Unrelated, penis hotdog maker and vagina waffle maker. Buy both machines for savings. The video is okay, not too explicit but amusing. e: There’s multiple videos and I can’t work out how to link to the one using mobile 
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LimaBiker posted:So how did Hewlett Packard "die"? They used to make immortal laser printers. That's not a good business model. Then they started selling inkjet ink at literal gold prices, got addicted, and decided that maximizing profits was the way to go. I remember CEO Carly Fiorina leading this transformation. She was not loved by some people. Also RIP D I G I T A L
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mobby_6kl posted:You probably don't need it for your purpose but it looks like you can get some extra performance by cranking up the power limit in BIOS to 30W. Which I don't really get, my N5100 won't go over 8W of package power at full frequency so it seems weird Intel would juice the N100 like that. Stuff that ends up in those Aliexpress mini-pcs is often the absolute lowest of barrel scrappings in terms of silicon quality. You need good silicon to run at low power levels so the good poo poo ends up in laptops were you really need the power efficiency, and the floors sweepings end up there where they can still be marginally useful with some cranked up voltage settings since it's either that or the bin.
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All these HP talk made me check out HP's wiki page and I don't recognize any consumer product in last 10? years. They didn't even bother to make an android phone. Now I remember my wife's government laptop is a HP. She swapped 2 or 3 times already, in just one year. poo poo couldn't even hardboot, didn't make post sound. Just junk.
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karoshi posted:They used to make immortal laser printers. They replaced all the printers at my old job, notably desktop ones and just have large MFPs. I wound up taking home a laserjet 1610dn, with 2 new toners. I still haven't worn out the one that was in it, and I got it in 2015.
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codo27 posted:They replaced all the printers at my old job, notably desktop ones and just have large MFPs. I wound up taking home a laserjet 1610dn, with 2 new toners. I still haven't worn out the one that was in it, and I got it in 2015. I'd still be using my early 2000s laserjet I got from work when they shut down in 2008... Except my phone line took a direct lightning strike and fried the jet direct card (and every other network card connected to that switch) norp fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Apr 6, 2023 |
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codo27 posted:They replaced all the printers at my old job, notably desktop ones and just have large MFPs. I wound up taking home a laserjet 1610dn, with 2 new toners. I still haven't worn out the one that was in it, and I got it in 2015. Meanwhile, yes, my programmer husband has gone through two or three HP laptops provided to him by his company. You think after the first one (or two) failed, they'd learn their lesson.
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stephenthinkpad posted:All these HP talk made me check out HP's wiki page and I don't recognize any consumer product in last 10? years. They didn't even bother to make an android phone. I just remember my dad had a few iPaq's in the 2000s. For what they were, they were decent little devices. They were our first introduction in GPS navigation and quasi-mobile internet via wifi hotspots.
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HP lost any chance of winning the race when they were handed palm pre back on the day and let the best of the main smartphone OSs die
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Sentient Data posted:HP lost any chance of winning the race when they were handed palm pre back on the day and let the best of the main smartphone OSs die palm pre was such a good phone palm pixi was not touchpad might've ended up good?
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If you still have a Pre around you can still put it in use lol. (I sold mine)
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Did someone misunderstand how to use a coffee pot? Or am I missing a secret use mode? Or do we finally have AI generated aliexpress listings? 
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Why are you calling it Ali express? Its been AI express all along?
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