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TheAnonymouseJoker ,
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Victorinox.

sirico ,
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Marmite

Omega_Jimes ,

I’m an absolute whore of a human for Mitsubishi ‘Uni’ Pens. I don’t even like writing, but their Jetstream line are cheap and should be the ubiquitous goto pen. Everytime I have to pick up a bic, I die a little inside.

TheAnonymouseJoker ,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

We will vibe well.

NightAuthor ,

Socks, I don’t think I’ll buy any socks besides darn tough socks long as we both shall live.

arin ,

Costco Kirkland socks are the best, durable and comfy

NightAuthor ,

They seem pretty light on the merino wool options though.

CmdrShepard ,

I have Kirkland boxer briefs and Kirkland undershirts (and love them both), but I don’t recall ever seeing Kirkland socks. I always get the Puma brand socks from Costco.

DLSantini ,

Soda, chips, candy, etc. If I’m gonna buy it, I’m buying the good one. I’ve tried many different off/store brand peanut butter cups, and they’re always fucking horrendous.

Surprisingly, frozen pizza is the opposite. The store brand ones are really good (at least the ones I get at Shaw’s and Market Basket). Meanwhile, I’ve payed much more in order to try out the big name brands. They are usually smaller, lower quality, and taste worse than the store brand ones that cost nearly half as much.

wild ,

Kroger salt and vinegar chips tho

droidpenguin ,

Butter. Kerrygold is simply the best.

diffcalculus ,

Would you say it’s better than all the rest?

Soku ,

Oh, better than anyone!

nekothegamer ,
@nekothegamer@sh.itjust.works avatar

i got a bootleg version of vans slip-on (aka vans asher) and in less than a year they’ve got destroyed already, it looks like the sole is about to come off the shoes themselves

holland ,

i got a bootleg version of vans slip-on (aka vans asher) and in less than a year they’ve got destroyed already, it looks like the sole is about to come off the shoes themselves

The non-bootlegs do the same thing. Crap quality all around.

nekothegamer ,
@nekothegamer@sh.itjust.works avatar

yeah they’ll do it eventually too but hopefully at least they’ll resist more that a year

JAJLWolf ,
@JAJLWolf@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Ketchup for sure. There is a hierarchy of quality, and store-brand is the bottom rung.

NightAuthor ,

And the brand is Heinz, right?

JAJLWolf ,
@JAJLWolf@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Right you are!

Squirrel ,
@Squirrel@thelemmy.club avatar

I’d really like to know why all types of off-brand ketchup taste like ass.

JAJLWolf ,
@JAJLWolf@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I think it’s because the more expensive brands actually use more tomatoes. The cheaper the brand, the more additives!

Pantherina ,

Stuff a certain company or organization can simply do that others cant

  • Fedora
  • GrapheneOS + stupid Pixel phones
  • Coreboot laptop, whatever brand
  • actually sustainable products
  • some Bike components but if I find something better here I go!
TheAnonymouseJoker ,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

1 and 2 are BS

CADmonkey ,

Tires. Every time I’ve tried to save money by purchasing some PrimeWell or Sentury or other no-name tire I’ve worn them out in no time flat or they burst when I hit any bump that stands more than 1cm above the road surface. If they are that weak then they aren’t safe.

MetricIsRight ,

I work in the rim and tire industry so I find this really interesting. Haven’t seen either of those two brands before where I am, but most cheaper brands nowadays are all made at the same two or three locations and just get a different name stamped into the sidewall.

CADmonkey ,

My information may also be out of date, it’s been years since I was so broke that I had to just buy whatever cheap tires I could afford.

I had a set of “Sentury” tires I put on a Mitsubishi Mirage, and they were worn to the wear bars in 9,000 miles. They were carrying a 1,900 pound/860 kilogram car, and that was heavy enough to wear all four tires down in less than 1/4 the tread warranty period.

MetricIsRight ,

That’s really bad, sounds like a winter compound tire was sold as an all-season or something. That sounds like the typical treadwear for a winter tire that gets run in the wrong season.

Also for anyone reading this, If you ever need cheap tires try your local independent mechanics or to a lesser extent franchise mechanics shop, lots of people swap tires when they have 35%+ tread life left. Lots of shops will let these tires go for cheap if you get them put on at their shop. I would gladly take a good quality tire at 40% tread life vs a cheapo crap set at 100%

lightnsfw ,

It’s been a while but I think primewell is Firestones bargain brand. They’re shit but compared to anything wal-mart was selling they were tolerable. I never saw as many broken belts as when I was working there starting out.

EmoDuck ,

Frozen pizza. Most all pizzas are basically just crackers with tomatoe sauce and cheese, but then there is Dr Oetkers Ofenfrische. I find myself eating 14 euro wood-fired takeout pizzas, only to realize that it stinks compared to an Ofenfrische

MummifiedClient5000 ,

It is made by a real doctor after all and that is more than you can say about most pizzas.

xX_fnord_Xx ,

Got his doctorate in Pizzaeolgy.

sockenklaus ,
@sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works avatar

If you happen to be in Germany try Gustavo Gusto frozen pizza.

TheAnonymouseJoker ,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

Is this possible to buy in India? Because that sounds interesting.

EmoDuck ,

Seems like Dr Oetker has made it’s way to India already, unfortunately only in spread/sauce form: www.oetker.in/products

TheAnonymouseJoker ,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

They have been here for over a decade with the spreads and sauces. I have eaten thousand island spread sandwiches at home for years.

whoamibro ,

Mobiles, laptops, SIM card, Wifi provider

EmoDuck ,

Interesting. I switched from brand phones (HTC) to generic no-name phones a while ago. My current one is by Ulefone and I couldn’t tell any difference. For 300 bucks I got a phone thats comparable to samsung phones twice the price, since I didn’t pay anything for the brand name. Any specific reason why you avoid no-name with technologie?

ManosTheHandsOfFate ,
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It’s cheap AND all your friends in China can easily keep tabs on your life. I call that a win!

neshura ,
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for dumb tech no-name is fine, we have that stuff figured out to the point where you can kick it around a bit without it breaking. But high-tech is weirdly robust and fragile at the same time. You can cheap out on the circuitry and you’ll be fine for a while but eventually the low grade circuits around the chipp will damage it, causing it to lose performance. With bigger price gaps you usually get some reduced performance in a key part on top of it (usually memory or the processor) if it goes even beyond that then we enter the territory of “this device would be selling at a loss if they truly ship what’s wrotten in the specs, where tf do they get the money to compensate for that?” (spoier: it’s either spyware and selling customer data or lying about specs)

Obviously there are exceptions here, most high-end tech products for example are vastly overpriced to generate as much money as possible from whale customers. But with the mis- to low-high-end stuff you usually fall on your face with some aspect or another after a few years with cheap no-name devices.

Not to mention the very real problem of credibillity: it’s very easy for unknown players to just fake reviews of their products, you won’t ever know because there are not enough real users of these devices to punch through the fake reviews

NightAuthor ,

Wtf is a WiFi provider?

CmdrShepard ,

Maybe a wireless ISP?

whoamibro ,

The one who provides your wifi connection. Technically ISP but without internet through SIM

Saigonauticon ,

Mooncakes for mid-autumn festival. Như Lan bakery or skip. The other brands (even the ‘fancy’ ones) have too much sugar. In HK there are other good brands too, but in VN Như Lan is the best.

I guess also expensive tools like oscilloscopes (Siglent, Uni-T). It’s a big enough investment that I need it to work well, but I’m not rich enough for the fancy brands.

Oh, and motorcycles – Honda please (yes, we have unbranded motorcycles here, we call them ‘ghost bikes’). There’s always a repairshop that can fix a Honda within walking distance, but I’ve never actually needed to go to one. When I had a Yamaha it broke once in a while, and that meant a long walk in tropical heat.

okmko ,

… Siracha.

At least before the debacle with Underwood Ranch. I unknowingly bought extra before it happened and am close to running out. I’m not sure what to do afterwards but I’m not inclined to support Huy Fong.

RozhkiNozhki ,
@RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world avatar

Tabasco Sriracha is not quite the same but decent.

tar_xf ,

During the huy Fong drought I learned that I actually prefer Tabasco brand Sriracha!

wack ,

I hear Underwood ranch sells siracha made from the same peppers Huy Fong used to buy from them. Might be worth checking out

Empricorn ,

I want to support them, but I hear it’s just not the same. Maybe that could be a good thing, though!

xX_fnord_Xx ,

Fix Sriracha is pretty damn good, less sweet, more heat, a touch more fermented funkiness. Downside is it is thinner and more expensive.

intensely_human ,

Game console controllers. Miss me with that flimsy shit.

Except the Xbox Series X controller. That thing’s a nightmare. I use my old One controller for that.

Globulart ,

What’s wrong with the series x controller? I bought one for my pc when my xbox one controller died. I haven’t really used it loads yet to be fair, but it seems fine to me. I preferred the +style dpad on xbox one but other than that it feels basically the same to me.

intensely_human ,

It’s extremely loud. Once someone tells you about the loud click that every button press makes, you can’t unhear it.

Sorry.

Globulart ,

Haha well then fuck you in advance I guess

intensely_human ,

😘

insomniac ,
@insomniac@sh.itjust.works avatar

Interesting. I still use the 360 controller on my PC because that thing is a tank. Basically indestructible. But my One controllers are garbage. The plastic was so badly formed I got aftermarket grips because it was constantly pinching my hands. It also feels like I could twist it in to pieces with by hand. The Series X controller fails to live up to the 360 but it feels significantly more solid and the pieces at least fit together.

intensely_human ,

I do feel I could break my xbox controller easily if I twisted it. It’s got some heft but not much. The 360 controller did feel a bit more solid.

The series x controller is also nice. Disturbingly light but I appreciate that it’s good for long sessions to have a light controller. It’s just the damn button sound. It makes a nasally little twing-click sound each time the button is pressed. Drives me nuts.

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