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What are the "AK-47" of items? (cheap, durable, just works) (reddthat.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is not a conversation about guns. This is a conversation about items that have withstood abuse that are near unbreakable.

Some items I have heard referenced as AK47 of:

Gerber MP600: It's a multi tool

Old Thinkpad Laptops

Mag lights

Toyota Hilux

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I feel like I'm being baited to mention Nokia

[–] jws_shadotak 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm seriously considering buying a Nokia smart phone to use with LineageOS. I'm a big fan of shitty android phones anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Nokia of now is not the Nokia of yesteryear. Their new phones are just cheap Android smartphones.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

a cheap microsoft phone isn't a nokia

[–] jws_shadotak 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Who said anything about Microsoft

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Pretty sure they're referring to the sale of Nokia's phone division to Microsoft in the mid-2010s. It's since been bought back and is in the process of renaming to HMD.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Didn't it get resold again to a Chinese firm? Please tell me they're independent again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Sort of. HMD licenses the Nokia name from the broader Nokia business and kept a lot of the old c-suite. Manufacturing is owned by a subsidiary of Foxconn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

ok, that's cool. and their stance on repair ability means if they make a reasonably sized smart phone before I need a new one I'll be getting one, and one of the stupid tablet sized ones anyway if not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

LineageOS wouldn't run on a real nokia unless you're talking about the nokia branded microsoft phones and they're more like a 3d printed gun than an AK-47.

[–] jws_shadotak 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#nokia

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think the argument still is, that those aren’t „real“ Nokias. At the very least they’re not the same Nokia that built the 3310, as that Nokia isn’t in the consumer electronics market anymore.

[–] jws_shadotak 1 points 1 day ago

Ah I see. That's a bummer

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Just be aware their newer phones are hot shit. It's the older phones that got the reputation for durability.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

if they still ran on the phone network maybe