What do you refuse to get generic versions of?
Mobiles, laptops, SIM card, Wifi provider
Wtf is a WiFi provider?
Maybe a wireless ISP?
Interesting. I switched from brand phones (HTC) to generic no-name phones a while ago. My current one is by Ulefone and I couldn’t tell any difference. For 300 bucks I got a phone thats comparable to samsung phones twice the price, since I didn’t pay anything for the brand name. Any specific reason why you avoid no-name with technologie?
It’s cheap AND all your friends in China can easily keep tabs on your life. I call that a win!
for dumb tech no-name is fine, we have that stuff figured out to the point where you can kick it around a bit without it breaking. But high-tech is weirdly robust and fragile at the same time. You can cheap out on the circuitry and you’ll be fine for a while but eventually the low grade circuits around the chipp will damage it, causing it to lose performance. With bigger price gaps you usually get some reduced performance in a key part on top of it (usually memory or the processor) if it goes even beyond that then we enter the territory of “this device would be selling at a loss if they truly ship what’s wrotten in the specs, where tf do they get the money to compensate for that?” (spoier: it’s either spyware and selling customer data or lying about specs)
Obviously there are exceptions here, most high-end tech products for example are vastly overpriced to generate as much money as possible from whale customers. But with the mis- to low-high-end stuff you usually fall on your face with some aspect or another after a few years with cheap no-name devices.
Not to mention the very real problem of credibillity: it’s very easy for unknown players to just fake reviews of their products, you won’t ever know because there are not enough real users of these devices to punch through the fake reviews
Frozen pizza. Most all pizzas are basically just crackers with tomatoe sauce and cheese, but then there is Dr Oetkers Ofenfrische. I find myself eating 14 euro wood-fired takeout pizzas, only to realize that it stinks compared to an Ofenfrische
It is made by a real doctor after all and that is more than you can say about most pizzas.
Got his doctorate in Pizzaeolgy.
Is this possible to buy in India? Because that sounds interesting.
Seems like Dr Oetker has made it’s way to India already, unfortunately only in spread/sauce form: https://www.oetker.in/products
They have been here for over a decade with the spreads and sauces. I have eaten thousand island spread sandwiches at home for years.
If you happen to be in Germany try Gustavo Gusto frozen pizza.
diet Dr Pepper. Maybe diet Dr Shasta if it’s all they have
I used to have a friend who was hooked on Diet Dr. Thunder (walmart brand I think). I asked why not Dr. Pepper and he said “it doesn’t have the same artificial metallic zing!” lol
Diet Dr Pepper is incredible and the only thing I prefer the diet version over the regular flavor.
Have you tried Dr Pepper zero? Tastes even more like regular Dr pepper than diet Dr pepper. Lacks that sort of sharp/metallic taste many diet sodas have.
Game console controllers. Miss me with that flimsy shit.
Except the Xbox Series X controller. That thing’s a nightmare. I use my old One controller for that.
What’s wrong with the series x controller? I bought one for my pc when my xbox one controller died. I haven’t really used it loads yet to be fair, but it seems fine to me. I preferred the +style dpad on xbox one but other than that it feels basically the same to me.
It’s extremely loud. Once someone tells you about the loud click that every button press makes, you can’t unhear it.
Sorry.
Haha well then fuck you in advance I guess
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Interesting. I still use the 360 controller on my PC because that thing is a tank. Basically indestructible. But my One controllers are garbage. The plastic was so badly formed I got aftermarket grips because it was constantly pinching my hands. It also feels like I could twist it in to pieces with by hand. The Series X controller fails to live up to the 360 but it feels significantly more solid and the pieces at least fit together.
I do feel I could break my xbox controller easily if I twisted it. It’s got some heft but not much. The 360 controller did feel a bit more solid.
The series x controller is also nice. Disturbingly light but I appreciate that it’s good for long sessions to have a light controller. It’s just the damn button sound. It makes a nasally little twing-click sound each time the button is pressed. Drives me nuts.
Puffs tissues. They hold together better than Scottie and aren’t dusty and awful like Kleenex or most of the knockoffs.
A choosey nose indeed
Certain premade foods, like tortillas. Even amongst brands, not all are equal. Same with the cheese.
Most food. I generally try the generics/store brands but a lot of time they’re way worse.
A lot of the time they’re completely identical too though. Don’t get me wrong, you won’t find me buying own brand for plenty of items but certain cereals and various ingredients are literally identical. To the extent that the only thing that changes at the factory is a new package design is loaded into the machinery for the branded version, that’s literally it.
Wife and I love albanese gummy bears, and realized that H‑E‑B’s (our grocery store) store brand where just albanese but like 1/3 the cost.
I’ve never been disappointed by Kirkland brand anything.
Socks, I don’t think I’ll buy any socks besides darn tough socks long as we both shall live.
Costco Kirkland socks are the best, durable and comfy
They seem pretty light on the merino wool options though.
I have Kirkland boxer briefs and Kirkland undershirts (and love them both), but I don’t recall ever seeing Kirkland socks. I always get the Puma brand socks from Costco.
Toothpaste. Generics are awful.
How come? I’m asking because my dentist said the opposite.
You have the tenth dentist!
I asked my dentist about that, too. The physical act of brushing is the most important part and the toothpaste is just to apply some fluoride, essentially.
Soda, chips, candy, etc. If I’m gonna buy it, I’m buying the good one. I’ve tried many different off/store brand peanut butter cups, and they’re always fucking horrendous.
Surprisingly, frozen pizza is the opposite. The store brand ones are really good (at least the ones I get at Shaw’s and Market Basket). Meanwhile, I’ve payed much more in order to try out the big name brands. They are usually smaller, lower quality, and taste worse than the store brand ones that cost nearly half as much.
Kroger salt and vinegar chips tho
Running shoes. Antipronation shoes are fucking expensive, but having bad support will eventually hurt my feet, ankles or knees. I would get hurt very fast if I started running in cheap sneakers or something.
My rule has always been “don’t skimp on the things that separate you from the ground.” Shoes, tires, chairs, beds, etc, get the best you can afford to and don’t pinch pennies.
get the best you can afford
Ah, so the cheapest option available. Got it.
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Yeah, same for motorcycle tires.
I do not fuck around with motorcycle tires at all. Its a life or death consideration
Cheerios. Just the plain toasted oat variety.
For some reason the other brands of toasted oats do not taste right. Other cereal generics are fine.
SOS Pads and Oreos.
Oreos are a copy of Hydrox. A superior copy, of course, but I wonder if the panel should disqualify your answer.
Nah, Oreos are still a name brand, not a generic. Like cheese nips vs cheez its
Good point. The committee should allow this entry into the record.
Ever had Aldi brand Oreos? Slightly less sweet but I think I like em better
Nutella
Edit: I am FLABERGASTED at how many people disagree, I genuinely thought this was obvious, pls recommend anything you prefer to nutella (and whether it’s more or less expensive)
In Germany we have Nudossi which has less sugar and a lot more hazelnut. There’s a variation without palm oil so this is what Ive been buying instead of nutella.
i started to buy kraft instead of nutella. just as good but sunflower oil instead of palm
I’ll try that, thanks
Nah, there’s stuff out there that’s better. Just try out a few.
Nutella is the holy one! There’s other good stuff and I don’t say Nutella is better, it’s just in a one-and-only category: if you want Nutella, you buy Nutella, if you want some chocolate cream, you buy what you like best
I get that, although Nutella has gotten worse in my opinion since they increased the milk powder content relative to the hazelnut content a few years back. So even Nutella isn’t really Nutella anymore in my opinion, therefore I can just as well buy something with more hazelnut centered flavour.
I am one of the Nutella buyers but even so I would mention that the flavour varies wildly amongst different countries to the point that I now can say I like it from very specific places. Just thought I’d mention that each of us could actually have a slightly different version and not like it as much.
Ah, that would explain some things. Thx.
Forget the name but one with the squirrel on top is very good.
one with the squirrel on top
Maybe you’re thinking of Nutino?
Interesting, that looks good too, but no that’s not the one. I looked it up it’s Nocciolotta.
The really fancy stuff (in Germany, don’t know if it exists somewhere else) is Samba. Nutella is just sweet slime in comparison
Googled it, never seen it around unfortunately
I think ebl supermarket has it, but yeah it’s a little hard to come by sadly
I’ve never had Samba or any other brand of chocolate spread, but I agree Nutella tastes like chocolate slime. It’s as if they melted (vomit flavored) Hershey bars down into a spread.
Aldi has a really tasty version that our whole family prefers.
Aldi is US only I think unfortunately
Aldi is German.
Household appliance and in general everything where support and assistance may have a big impact
