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Where you absolutely refuse to go the cheap way.

For me its deodorant. Everything else I've found but my chosen brand fails me.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Television. I absolutely cannot stand TVs with bad picture quality. I look at it for hours every evening so it’s worth it to get something that doesn’t bother me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This but for monitors, I bought the drawing tablet I have because I cannot stand color shifting and bad color rep. Same with my monitors, if the colors are so off that one is visibly more blue than the other I get so annoyed I dont use it.

Luckily enough laptops tend to have pretty color-accurate screens thanks to everyone trying to copy apple (i still miss removeable batteries)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t miss removable batteries at all. My MacBook Pro does 10+ hours on a single charge. I’d rather have that than having to shut down my laptop every 2 hours to swap the battery, and having to lug around several batteries to get the same runtime.

Battery life on laptops is so good nowadays that I simply stopped thinking about it. I don’t even bring my charger with me anymore because I know I won’t need it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wait till you hear about thinkpads with built in and removable batteries. That makes them hot swapable!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can still have high capacity batteries that are removable? The point is that in 5 years that battery will probably only hold 5% of the charge it does now, and it will cost a fuckton more and be way more difficult to replace than just swapping it.

Being removable and having a large capacity are not mutually exclusive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They are kind of mutually exclusive, for several reasons.

First. a non-removable battery allows for more flexibility as to the shape of the battery, which allows you to cram more battery into a laptop as you can more optimally use the space you have.

But a bigger reason is that lithium batteries are dangerous, if punctured or otherwise damaged they can catch fire in a quite spectacular way. This means that if you have a removable battery it needs to be inside some kind of protective casing. This takes up space, so you end up with a smaller capacity battery for the same space.

Also, batteries do not degrade that quickly anymore, and they aren’t that expensive to replace either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I bought a cheap TCL TV for a monitor for our security cameras. I have never heard of a TV that you need to select an input every time you turn it on. It's quite annoying.