I saw this post and wanted to ask the opposite. What are some items that really aren’t worth paying the expensive version for? Preferably more extreme or unexpected examples.

    • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caEnglish
      151·
      9 months ago

      I do not think that the user above you is being brigaded by GrapheneOS.

      Look into their history to see if they might’ve said to see if there was anything in their “most controversial” that could elicit a retaliation, and I found nothing.

      I did find them often strongly saying unpopular opinions (or sidestepping a question), which people then downvote, and them sometime blaming the downvotes on outside actors.

      “I didn’t say something that wasn’t true or not well received, I am clearly being attacked!!!”’

      I’ll copy the comment you are replying to so it can’t go away:

      I will go the opposite route here, and tell people to instead make an exception for certain things, and never go for cheap unknown brands.

      highly reputed Oxymeter in medical establishment (do not buy inaccurate smartwatches, Apple is 20x ripoff and still subpar)
      Victorinox for Swiss army knife
      Victorinox or Leatherman for multitool
      reputed branded batteries (Maxell, Duracell, Sanyo, Sony, Eneloop et al)
      reputed battery/device chargers
      PSU/SMPS and UPS for computer (APC, Emerson, Schneider and other brands) reputed brand watches (Casio, Citizen, Seiko have affordable BIFL options)
      ThinkPad for laptop (user repairability, third party parts, open schematics)
      Levis for jeans, they are almost BIFL
      a good weighing machine for kitchen/home use
      a good mixer grinder WITH safety lock (atleast 750W)
      quality stationery pen, mechanical pencil, leads, eraser and other items (Uni, Pentel, Sakura, Staedtler et al, refer to JetPens website)
      Edit: fuck you GrapheneOS, for almost 2 months now, they are mass downvoting my comments, and doing voting manipulation, also abusing federation

      Reasons people might downvote:

      • They are not answering the question that was asked
      • They give lots of brands/products that people may disagree are high-quality.
      • They recommend products that are outdated
      • They gave a website that people should buy from (which may be seen as spammy)

      Reasons people are probably not downvoting:

      • They are GrapheneOS
    • 0x2d@lemmy.ml
      2·
      9 months ago

      he told people to buy cheap ass china phones and run some adb commands to disable google stuff, instead of buying a pixel and installing graphene or calyx

      • Keith@lemmy.zipOP
        4·
        9 months ago

        That’s like objectively far worse, especially when used Pixel + LineageMicroG (which is admittedly worse than Graphene) is probably even cheaper than Chinese phone

    • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
      1013·
      9 months ago

      You can check my history for the past month and a half, all with 4-7 downvotes. They habitually downvote when they sleep and wake up according to Canadian timezone. I ruined their non-existent careers by constantly recording and dishing out proof of their brodude asshole attitude, voting manipulation, targeted witch hunting that the “lead dev” told people to do on Matrix, and so on.

      Some people will think that may be conspiratorial, but my comment history with consistent downvoting speaks volumes, apart from a very few 4-5 comments people did not generally like. And they want that I look deranged, conspiratorial and get out of their way to do nasty things, which they keep failing at. 😂

      • otp@sh.itjust.works
        12·
        9 months ago

        I mean, you did do the opposite of what an AskLemmy post asked. And the post itself is a follow-up or response to a previous post that asked the question you wanted to answer…

        • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
          812·
          9 months ago

          It would sound plausible but is not, and its more like I told people to just focus on not cheaping out on this small list of goods, rather than all the people trying to list the goods people should cheap out on. Infact, my answer was in line with what’s being proposed as some famous quote, that buy cheap option of any good first until it breaks, and so on.

          People can safely cheap out on most goods, its the ones that should not be, that are important. Concise knowledge is far easier to store in head and apply. And I have a tiny brain lol. I missed OP mentioning this is an opposite of that AskLemmy, and I kinda wanted people to know in this easier way.