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What's your list of banned brands? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What brands do you avoid at all cost? I don't keep up with the news all that much, and many of the reasons to avoid something don't make it there anyway. So I'm asking here to make a big list of things to avoid. It could be anything from bad security practices to really frustrating packaging. Working as a cashier myself, I definitely know there are plenty of brands I avoid purely on the basis that their product is a pain to stock.

On the flip side, what's the alternative? If you avoid Pepsi, for example, what do you turn to instead?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So, uh, how do you live in modern society?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Framework laptop with OpenBSD for prod, Steam Deck for gaming, Pinephone with pmOS for phone stuff (even though I put Pine64 on the bad list, if I could buy again I would have tried the Fairphone or other pmOS compatible device instead); self host everything possible (mail, git (got), gitweb (gotweb), http, ipsec vpn) on a cheap VPS running OpenBSD. It's comfy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why openBSD though?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Good documentation, good in-house servers, correctness, secure defaults.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough, what's software/hardware support like in general?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

https://www.openbsd.org/plat.html

All the x86 hardware I've tried at least boots. Suspend/other acpi stuff can be a problem, as well as wireless card support. Intel devices are the best supported at the moment by iw*(4) drivers.