[didip]

Other lessons one can take from this:

* Never buy an HP.

* For personal use, one should also treat computers as cattle, not pets. Always automatically backup to at least 2 different locations.

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Careful you don't overgeneralize too much. You're probably basing this on home/small office product lines, which is not all HP does.

HP has some pretty interesting and successful products such as the Life Sciences dispensers for cells and fluids (see https://www.hp.com/us-en/specialty-printing-solutions/life-s...).

Then there are the industrial printing products (https://www.hp.com/us-en/industrial-digital-presses.html) which are rather mind bogglingly fast and capable. Imagine a printer printing to a paper roll 40" wide at hundreds of feet per second, and the printing is paper statements to be cut and sorted for mailing.