I grew up with $20 walmart blenders, and hated anything that required a blender.

Recently bought a ninja and there is no going back. I’ll never use a crappy blender again.

Anything else like that?

  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
    11·
    6 months ago
    • 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)
    • Tja@programming.dev
      1·
      6 months ago

      For batteries eneloop are good, but so are Ikea batteries. The ones Made in Japan are basically eneloop clones for a nice discount.

      • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
        01·
        6 months ago

        I am from India, so IKEA is a less common occurrence for us, although it is here in some places. My comment was meant more as general guideline, as you can straight up look whatever I wrote, and get easily without confusion. The rebadged Eneloops at IKEA probably still is a mystery to most.

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
      0·
      6 months ago

      I’ve had the same Casio watch for 16 years now, just had to change the battery once. Sturdy and precise.

      Well, almost. A while ago it set itself to be three hours off, and I can’t figure out how to get it back to my timezone. I follow the steps in the manual to have it re-set itself, but it’s still three hours off.

      I don’t understand where it gets that time from

    • iegod@lemm.ee
      0·
      6 months ago

      I picked up a thinkpad last month and I’m happy with it except for: battery life. Thing gets less than 3 hours of usage. That kind of blows.