• Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

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

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      2 months ago

      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.

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

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    lol, $100k+… HP revenue in 2024 was $53,559,000k.

    Dell same year $88,000,000k and Lenovo $69,000,000k, so ~$50B to $90B

    I let you calculate the percentage but… I’d guesstimate it’s approximately nothing.

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    2 months ago

    They aren’t doing this out of Altruism, mind you. They know damn well that the world runs on Linux admins, and they want the ecosystem to survive so they can use it as a customer base later.

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    Greats news more support for Linux, Two weeks ago I bought a Lenovo IdeaPad 2in1 and while I was on their website checking the warranty, I decided to see if there were BIOS drivers and there were. I tried using fwupd and it didn’t find anything and when I searched found that this model does not have Linux support and I couldn’t simply use the terminal, it was only possible from Windows, I had to download the .exe and Hiren’s to update the firmware.