{"id":8201,"date":"2011-04-11T22:59:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T05:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=8201"},"modified":"2011-04-11T22:59:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T05:59:58","slug":"hp-pretends-linux-voids-netbook-hardware-warranty-the-consumerist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2011\/04\/hp-pretends-linux-voids-netbook-hardware-warranty-the-consumerist\/","title":{"rendered":"HP Pretends Linux Voids Netbook Hardware Warranty &#8211; The Consumerist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"angry_penguin.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2011\/04\/angry_penguin.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Angry penguin\" width=\"240\" height=\"149\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2011\/02\/hp-pretends-linux-voids-netbook-hardware-warranty.html\" >HP Pretends Linux Voids Netbook Hardware Warranty &#8211; The Consumerist<\/a>: &#8220;Installing a different operating system on a computer does not change its hardware. This is a simple enough concept&#8230;unless you work in technical support for HP. Their phone tech support have joined their Geek Squad colleagues in insisting that a Linux-infested laptop was no longer under warranty.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle didn&#8217;t want to put Windows back on his netbook just so his problem would fit phone support&#8217;s standard script. He tried to make tech support see logic&#8230;and eventually they did. (Or gave him a new battery so he would go away, but the end result is the same.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HP Pretends Linux Voids Netbook Hardware Warranty &#8211; The Consumerist: &#8220;Installing a different operating system on a computer does not change its hardware. This is a simple enough concept&#8230;unless you work in technical support for HP. Their phone tech support have joined their Geek Squad colleagues in insisting that a Linux-infested laptop was no longer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2011\/04\/hp-pretends-linux-voids-netbook-hardware-warranty-the-consumerist\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HP Pretends Linux Voids Netbook Hardware Warranty &#8211; The Consumerist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-28h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8202,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions\/8202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}