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   Matt :opensuse: :wayland: (thelinuxcast@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 07:16:39 JST Matt :opensuse: :wayland:

   Brand new HP laptop won't post. Says the cmos is corrupt, but all the ways to reset the cmos do not work (and there is no cmos battery)

   Pro tip, never buy HP.

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     Mr Penguin (mr_penguin@social.freetalklive.com)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 07:16:39 JST Mr Penguin

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     @thelinuxcast
     You thought HP was the way to go, really? It always blows me away people you'd think should know better don't. Apple, HP, Lenovo, IBM, Dell, and Toshiba branded products are defective by design. They include digital restrictions that are hostile to proper support under Linux. WiFi card doesn't work? You can't even replace it. This is why we don't have better support in Linux. People keep giving their money to shitty companies working against our interests. I can understand historically going with one of a select number of HP printers because of the proper support on some models over the competition, but an HP laptop? Hell no.

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     Mr Penguin (mr_penguin@social.freetalklive.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 09:33:38 JST Mr Penguin

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     @thelinuxcast
     Umm that isn't the case at all. Sounds like an issue of someone being extraordinarily lazy. Most of the smaller companies selling laptops with Linux don't lock down the WiFi card slot, though like most of them the WiFi sucks now cause they have moved the antennas in most newer laptops to under the case rather than keep it in the screen where reception isn't a problem. However that said this is no different than the rest of the industry so you won't end up with a worse laptop than otherwise available elsewhere anyway.

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     Matt :opensuse: :wayland: (thelinuxcast@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 09:33:39 JST Matt :opensuse: :wayland:

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     • Mr Penguin

     @mr_penguin by that reckoning there’s nothing to buy. So I might as well just not have a computer. Thank you.

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     mischievoustomato@0.5dollah.click's status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 12:37:44 JST mischievoustomato

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     @thelinuxcast even if it was ok, HP is also known as Hinge Problems