Arguably HP open-sourced webOS, but they did also got backlash because they killed that entire product line without warning.

They killed the product line almost immediately after release. And they fired basically everyone they acquired from palm.

It was a real shitty move.

It is a pretty sad story, and one that has been rather well told:

https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3062611/palm-webos-hp-insi...

https://www.philmckinney.com/i-convinced-hps-board-to-buy-pa...

I worked at HP as an intern during the saga. I even got to attend a training by the Palm team... Which wasn't great.

My impression just from that training is that WebOs was extremely mismanaged. The training was billed as a "how to write apps for WebOs" and it instead was an hour long meander by the Palm employee about how different the company culture is and how hard it became to do anything.

I had the distinct impression they didn't even know that the training was supposed to be before being assigned to do it.

I think that's indicative of everything. HP had this product that they were trying to shoehorn into the most bizarre places. At it's core it was a mobile Linux os which used html/css/JavaScript as the main user experience engine. And HP was trying to put that on printers and rack mount displays. The one place they didn't seem to care putting it was the mobile devices it was designed to target. They simply half assed the launch of a product.

Same here, I had a working IPv6 setup previously with my DSL provider, but now that I moved to a fibre connection, the new one refuses to support it.

Doesn't look like there's an official way to, most seem to involve hacking the search bar engines or installing an extension.

https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-turn-off-ai-overview...

SmartTube Next is GOAT.

IIRC there's some patent on how the pointer accelerates based on the pressure on the nub. This was why the other pointing stick devices (I've used ones from Toshiba, HP, Dell) don't work quite well as a Lenovo/IBM TrackPoint proper.

The web version of Office apps still is not the same as the full-featured fat desktop version, which only runs on Windows and Mac OS.

You can't use the web version offline, they are not a PWA, for instance.

The full featured version doesn't even run on Mac OS. Excel, PowerPoint and Word for Mac are all pale imitations of their Windows counterparts.

The irony is that Excel started out as a Mac app.

So this is real-life bluffball.co.uk...

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

One step forward several steps back though, with all the other terrible crap like copying your entire drive to OneDrive by default then attempting to make you subscribe when it fills up, adding all kinds of telemetry and ad tracking, shoving Copilot in your face whenever it can, just to name a few.

Don't forget about Cortana too.

The main offender to me is the reactivation of disable regedit keys after each update. I really want to like windows. I even like my professional windows computer. But on my _personal_ computer, i want the administrator to be _me_, not microsoft head of product.

You mean Spectre? Heartbleed was the SSL bug.