this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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That laptop is no longer a laptop, it is a bomb.

TranscriptA photo of an extremely swollen HP laptop. The panels are kept on with clips. The caption says: "User calls about disc being stuck in another computer, mentions off hand about this laptop. They'd been using it like this for weeks...

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 month ago (11 children)

An HP with a fucked up battery. Jaw dropping.

It’s like they go out of your way to give you fucked up defective batteries. Then they make their laptops nearly unserviceable, so when I get a replacement battery I tear the shit out of the case to get it open.

And it’s always hp. I’ve had other laptops for 10 years with functioning batteries. These HPs fail in like a year or two. I have one now covered in stickers from all the damage I had to do to open it and replace the battery.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

An HP

Just curious, was this a typo, or do you pronounce Hp Ach Pee?

edit: typo, ironically.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

Just curious, was this a type, or do you pronounce Hp Ach Pee?

I’m not even sure where to start with this one.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

That how I pronounce it, so I'd write it that way, too.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

I am Swedish and say:

HÅPE

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