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?
- 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)
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
Get it inspected by a watchmaker. Easiest way and should not cost much. The gears might have some issue.
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.
If using Linux, try TLP and PowerTOP. It sounds horrific there exist now ThinkPads with 3 hour battery.
For batteries eneloop are good, but so are Ikea batteries. The ones Made in Japan are basically eneloop clones for a nice discount.
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.
