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Buy it for Life

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A place to share practical, durable and quality made products that are made to last, with an emphasis on upcycled and sustainable products!

Guidelines:

Things that are well-made and durable (even if they won't last a lifetime) are A-Okay!

Unlike that other BIFL place, Home-made and DIY items are encouraged here, as long as some form of instruction is included in the body of the post.

Videos links are not allowed as post titles, but you may use them in a text post.

A limited amount of self-promotion is accepted, IF the item you are selling aligns with this criteria:

  1. The item must be made with sustainable or recycled materials.
  2. If electronic in some way, the item must be open-source.
  3. The item must be user-serviceable (if applicable).
  4. You cannot be a large corporation.
  5. The post must be clearly marked with a [Self Promotion] tag in your title.

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We can’t always find BifL products for everything. So it’s at least interesting to steer clear of the utter garbage known to be the opposite of BifL. I just created this community for that purpose:

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

Does big box stores count?

Planned obsolescence of 15 years and it leaves a dead place behind, see latest Not Jut Bikes video "These Ugly Big Box Stores are Literally Bankrupting Cities"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7-e_yhEzIw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don’t quite follow the connection between retailer size and planned obsolescence. Do you have a Cliff’s Notes? Youtube has become a shitshow since Google now treats Invidious and Tor with hostility. We can no longer consider YT videos to be openly reachable. I am essentially blocked from YT.

(edit) I was able to find a rarely working invidious instance and fetch it. will watch it later.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Pretty good idea actually. I won't find out at bifl if a product is bad, this will help bridge that gap

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Great way to name and shame landfill stockers