{"id":58530,"date":"2022-05-16T20:25:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T00:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=5805795a9aa78dd646fb49abc5c07c81"},"modified":"2022-05-16T20:25:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T00:25:10","slug":"the-very-weird-hewlett-packard-freedos-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58530","title":{"rendered":"The very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story\/134873\/the-very-weird-hewlett-packard-freedos-option\/\">OSNews<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: I expected weird, and this is still next level.<\/div><blockquote><p>In this installment: some strange things I discovered when purchasing a FreeDOS laptop from Hewlett Packard. I suspect that the audience for this will be somewhat limited but I had fun exploring this. Perhaps you, dear reader, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tmm.cx\/2022\/05\/15\/the-very-weird-hewlett-packard-freedos-option\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will find a chuckle in here too<\/a>.<\/p><p>Some background: I recently purchased a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hp.com\/us-en\/shop\/pdp\/hp-zbook-fury-17-g7-mobile-workstation-customizable-46q00av-mb\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HP ZBook 17.8 G8<\/a> as I run Fedora Linux I decided to have a little fun with the OS selection and picked the <a href=\"https:\/\/freedos.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FreeDOS<\/a> option (Other options include Ubuntu, and various flavors of Windows 11).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I can guarantee you this will be a lot weirder than you think.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this installment: some strange things I discovered when purchasing a FreeDOS laptop from Hewlett&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58530\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}