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Re:O Holy Crap by BlueTemplar on Thursday December 22, 2022 @08:52AM (#34093196)
I am surprised that nobody pointed out the obvious : avoid items with the minimum legal manufacturer warranty.

Though this too can become hard in categories dominated by cartels : warranties for (magnetic) hard drives have been going down (not to mention the recent frauds by Western Digital, how they have fallen, sigh...), or, for (non-related) reasons, boycotting Intel and Ryzen CPUs (or Android an iOS smartphones) doesn't leave you many options, though RISC-V (and "real" Linux) have been making great strides in the recent years.

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Re:O Holy Crap by robinsonb5 on Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:02AM (#34093286)
> I am surprised that nobody pointed out the obvious : avoid items with the minimum legal manufacturer warranty.

I have to admit that particular strategy hadn't occurred to me - but it's a good idea. Of course, it has to be an actual part-of-the-standard-deal warranty, not the hard-sell extended warranty that's really just an add-on insurance policy...

(Wondering where I find a box of staples warranted to pierce more than five sheets...)

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Re:O Holy Crap by Jupe on Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:08AM (#34093367)
Unless the company goes out of business, or as may happen more often today, just dissolve the company and re-brand/re-incorporate.
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