Vintage audio equipment. It’s purpose built without gimmicky features, high quality, high performance, and built to last with discrete components and service manuals. Really it doesn’t have to be vintage, but it’s usually the old stuff that prioritizes these traits. I usually play local files (mp3/flac) over a bluetooth DAC but vinyl is fun once in a while. The same living room system gets used for movies and whatever else too.

Great ones, respect.

Same with my car. I think it’s more important than ever to learn how to fix things. “Buy a new one” is becoming less and less viable for certain types of products if you value longevity, privacy, independence, finances, sustainability, etc.

Get ready for the ISO to double in size

Probably the rock in a shoe trick as well if that’s actually a thing.

You may have bought an expensive camera, and spent a good amount of time honing your skills, that doesn’t mean I’m paying you $6000 for 3 days of work.

Aside from how the phones actually compare, I think it’d be good to show there is a market for a factory graphene phone. I want companies to see the difference (financially) when they start taking privacy and other pro consumer ideas seriously.

I had the same experience, haven’t gone there in years because why would I pay more than double for the same quality of food as their competitors?

I often add the word “forum” to my searches to help get some actual human discussion instead of ad farming AI slop articles. Seems like the only way to figure things out these days.

I’m leaving any platform that tries this without a second thought. Already left discord. Left reddit and joined here with the account requirement (even though I have an account, just hate the principle).

Cybertrucks. I saw a thread here recently and people were way to passionate about it imo. I’m not going to spend my energy worrying about the mere existence of an ugly car.

Same. Luckily common sense and open friends were enough for me to be informed.

I’m fully ready to push back (heck I don’t have a choice, since my devices don’t support this shit), however it’s troublesome that most of the population doesn’t care because pushing back is inconvenient. I think being a corporate & government slave is more inconvenient, but a lot of people can’t connect the dots or see where society is going

I think you should check out the starbook horizon as well