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[–]happysmash27 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

My favourite phone brands are Fairphone, Purism, and Pine64. All of them have removable batteries, headphone jacks, and SD card slots in their phones. All of them allow one to install one's own OS. Both Purism and Pine64 sell Linux phones, and Fairphone sells fair trade phones which are also very modular and fair to the user. Purism's Librem 5 includes hardware kill switches and even removable modem and WiFi/Bluetooth cards. Both the Librem 5 and Fairphone are designed to last as long as possible, and the Pinephone probably is too. And the both Librem 5 and Pinephone even have open source schematics.

I also love my Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional2, as it is very high quality and has a UNIX keyboard layout. It is one of the electronic products which I think is most likely to last my entire lifetime.

Another open source project of note is the MNT Reform, which is probably the most repairable and open source laptop available today.

I also dream of getting a libre Talos Secure Workstation some day, and have for a very long time. It is open source hardware and powerful too, a very rare combination.

The only one I have personal experience with is my Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional2. For my 18th birthday, I got a Librem 5, but despite it being my 19th birthday today, it has still not arrived yet because of many delays pushing the Evergreen batch further back. They are making lots of progress though!

Edit: Vitamix blenders are also very high quality from what I hear and from my own experience. I have only heard praise for them, and after this side of my family got one, I have found it is amazingly high quality and capable indeed (it can even make vegan milk and heat up soup!). In my opinion it is one of the nicest things in this apartment, along with my keyboard.

Oh! And I almost forgot! Very old Dell monitors are also very good! My two Dell 1907FPVs with a copyright date on their manual of 2006 are some of the oldest things I own and still work perfectly. Looking at their manual, their quality control is astounding:

Dell-branded monitors undergo exhaustive testing for performance, reliability, durability and compatibility with Dell systems. Under our H.A.L.T (Highly Accelerated Life Cycle Testing) regimen, Dell engineers push our monitors well past specified tolerance limits for heat, cold, vibration, shocks and drops, to ensure that they can withstand real-world conditions.

They even drop-tested the desktop monitor! Wow!

I have no idea how their new monitors are, but their old monitors ubiquitous on Craigslist are great.

[–]suckitreddit 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Browser -> Brave Browser

Search Engine -> Qwant (Not Perfect, But Ethically Better Than Google)

Reddit Alternative -> Excluding saidit.net, Notabug.io

Twitter Alternatives -> Gab.com, Minds.com

Banks -> Credit Unions

Patreon Alternative -> SubscribeStar

YouTube Alternative -> Brighteon, BitChute

News -> Breitbart, Daily Wire, The Rebel

Clothes -> Round House Jeans (round-house.com)

Food -> Goya, Black Rifle Coffee

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

round-house.com

Why? Sustainable? Other reasons? Are they tough and long lasting? I'm tired of replacing my threadbare clothes every couple years. I'd rather spend 2 or 3 times as much to have them last 2 or 3 times longer.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I won't post our business partners.

But i privately like https://www.securesafe.com/en/ and https://www.hilti.de/ tools that are not explicitly geodesy. I even like their nails.

The Swiss are very old friends of the Germans. Almost every knife i own they made. This is what i define trust to be.

Don't underestimate the French, the Pollocks, the Dutch, Swedes or the Czech. That is my advice.

And finally there are our Russian comrades. They party seriously.

Edit: With more whores than you can fuck.

[–]bald-janitor 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Amd, adidas, sony and mazda

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

As a kid we used to say Adidas stood for: All Day I Dream About Sex and backwards: Sex After Dinner Is Definitely Alright.

I would add Puma shoes, not cheap enough, also made by slave labour, but stylish and fit me well - when I could afford them.

But these excellent products are made by these giant corporations who are unfairly exploitative, environmentally unsustainable, and worst of all: support the corrupt global establishment.

Also they support BLM:

Adidas: https://archive.is/ezQ22

AMD: https://archive.is/i3krt

Mazda: ?

PUMA: https://archive.is/lHx9j

Sony: https://archive.is/1PtlU

I don't mean to shit on your choices. We can't escape the world we live in. But we can be aware and try to minimize their control in various ways.

[–]bald-janitor 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Noo, not sony too :(

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

[–]IIllIIll 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

manischewitz

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

To start us off I'll present a few examples from among the few brands that I really admire (until I have strong reason not to).

Leatherman Multitools, etc.

https://www.Leatherman.com

Not cheap, but brilliantly designed and made to last. I also like a lot of clever sporting and camping gear too, but that's less practical for daily use, and also expensive. I also like some power tool companies and their clever and/or solid tools, though IMO they're all overpriced.

Nag Champa incense

https://www.NagChampa.com

I don't like most incense, yet somehow like all of theirs. I don't know how ethical, sustainable, fair, etc they are. Feel free to school me on how it causes cancer or something.

Logitech

https://www.Logitech.com

I've been consistently happier with Logitech products over all other product lines I've tried over the decades with few exceptions. Would like them to be more recyclable.

Chronicle Books & Shambhala Books

https://www.ChronicleBooks.com
https://www.Shambhala.com

It's been almost 20 years since I had a "disposable income" to splurge, and before the Internet provided high quality images, books, and music I used to buy hard copies. Obviously I can't speak about all of the Chronicle books since then, or any other genres than the many art books I got, but they were (and are?) top notch.

At this point you might think I'm some kind of hippie. You're not wrong.

Umbra Design

https://www.Umbra.com

Also from back when I made good money, I used to like a lot of Umbra and similar unconventional higher end mod products, and though admittedly they had some mediocre stuff back then, since I've seen even more disappointing generic mass produced stuff out there with their name on it. It seems they couldn't resist selling out into something akin to Ikea. Take with a grain of salt that I haven't been a part of that world for a long time and the cutting edge styles from 20-25 years ago became popular 10 years ago and haven't evolved since IMO.

Frank's RedHot & Tabasco

https://www.FranksRedHot.com
https://www.Tabasco.com

We did a blind taste test in Austin and discovered I actually preferred Tabasco to Texapeppa. I'm guessing that Franks and Tabasco are owned by the 20 Big Food corporations that dominate most of our food supply.

Lego

https://www.Lego.com

I worry about anything plastic, but IMO Lego was great, though overpriced. IMO, with "advancements" the more "realistic" specific pieces limited the creativity of kids with their pre-designed kits that could only really make one or two models without room for imagination and options to build other things.

As a kid I also liked Mechano, but found it tedious to take everything apart after.

I literally just walked around my place looking for quality brands and that was all I could find.

I like many antiques and solid vintage products that seem brandless too.