Honestly, no. There’s no easy way to find these brand. It takes a lot of time and effort to find the right brand or product to buy. It has to be basically a lifestyle choice\hobby to buy quality goods. Every time I buy something I’m not familiar with will take hours of research to find one company that makes a decent version, or sometimes not finding a single one.

Over time you can find trusted sources for honest reviews and comparisons in specific fields you can go back to for recommendations. There are some short hand that can help. Like where a product is made tends to make a difference, no company has ever moved production to China to improve quality lol. If a company is privately owned is also a good sign but neither is a guarantee.

Is it possible, yes. There are almost always options for BIFL in whatever product you’re looking for (sans tech etc.). It’s mostly from small niche brands that you’ve never heard of and can’t find in stores that specialize in quality but isn’t cheap. How you treat you’re stuff also plays a huge role on if it will last a lifetime or not, a lot of stuff requires maintenance that people don’t think about. The Iron Snail is a great YouTube channel that covers that type of clothing. And if you’re ever looking for something specific, make a post here lol.

I think you should go and sarcastically call his wife a DEI hire/wife the whole time lol

Looks neat but, very little to know information seems to be available right now so I’m not holding my breath. And FYI there are some other options out now. But those options aren’t very polished though and geared more towards computer nerds.

They weren’t just threats, there where riots all over the country.

No, I meant one of the more premium ones in the page I linked. BIFL rarely, if ever means the cheapest option.

Sony Walkman are the only company that takes making music players seriously today that I can think of. Probably not repairable so not really BIFL but worth taking a look.

Shouldn’t you use a “Y fitting” at the bottom?

Fairphone might be worth taking a look at.

If you just want to use a FOSS OS, LineageOS with a Google Pixel phones have the best support and will be the path of least resistance.

Well that’s my point lol. Renting out apartments isn’t inherently evil, just like owning a business isn’t inherently evil. If I charge a reasonable rent, then owning 2+ million in assets doesn’t automatically make me a bad person.

So let’s say I bought an apartment building and now it’s worth 2+ million, what should I do to make amends for my situation?

If you want to say that about billionaires that’s one thing but by that logic wouldn’t many people with a small a business or trying to retire be considered “bad”.

Ok, I was wrong, I didn’t know about all the boats and the second company/charity.

The Forbes thing is just an educated guess though. And are you saying anyone with 2 million dollars or anyone with 2m in assets is automatically a bad person?

Why not?

You don’t even know whether Gabe is or isn’t a billionaire.

He wants attention. It is his oxygen. Do not give him it.

The mainstream media will give it to him no matter what and Democrats have been talking the high road for the last eight plus years. Might as well make fun of him for what a weirdo he is and poison his oxygen supply.

“streaming is worse than cable now”

Ironically, pirating has never been easier lol

How much and what data are you looking to keep?

And I’m using my AC, we’re both using power. How many times has the government told one of these companies to use less power because the grid can’t handle the strain their servers put on it?

And it’s not like these companies aren’t herding people toward these cloud services. A few weeks ago my Google Cloud storage was maxed out so I wanted to delete some photos/videos off their cloud while keeping them on my phone. Legit couldn’t figure out how to do that and just ended up deleting stuff permanently.

Don’t forget to set you AC to 80 because the grid can’t handle the load lol. That’s exactly why this info is important, ecological solutions are somehow always trusted on individuals when the vast majority of the issue lies with corporations.