Some that come to mind are:

Benchmade - knives Darn Tough - socks Carhartt - good work gear Doc martens - footwear

What are some good reputable brands that you have had for 5 years + with little to no issues or with a lifetime warranty.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    Never buy samsung appliances.

    I have known and seen so many people make that mistake, and the story always ends with them replacing it with another brands, the smart ones under warranty, the stubborn ones out of pocket.

    • lemming741@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      It might be dead when I get home this afternoon, but I’ve been lucky with my Samsung fridge. I got it as a deeply discounted discounted floor model 9 years ago.

      Hosted a party and someone had leaned up against the ice/water buttons and put it into store/demo mode so everything looked fine but the compressor was disabled. The button combo should have been impossible to trigger accidentally but they did. I had defrost problems after that until I took the back panel out and cleaned the drains. That was 6 years ago and it’s been good.

      I think all French door models are designed to die. Run far, far away from those.

      • BunnyKnuckles@startrek.website
        3·
        10 months ago

        I think it was Technology Connections that did a video on French door fridges. One major problem with them (among the countless others) is airflow. Refrigerators have one refrigeration unit for both the fridge and freezer. The air is cooled in the freezer and moved to the less cool fridge. Cool air is denser than warmer air so it falls. Conventional fridges (freezer on top) were designed that way on purpose. When the freezer is on bottom you add levels of complexity and work against what has already been proven effective. That’s not a problem, per se, because humans are ingenious. But in order to compete with traditional fridges these companies have to do this at the mercy of the lowest bidder.

        • lemming741@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          Yeah mine is side by side, with ice and water in the freezer door.

          Complexity and max interior volume are competing goals

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      My Samsung washer and dryer have been doing fine.

      My only complaint is the drier doesn’t have an option to run for long enough to dry a blanket out on low heat. So I have to do several manual runs.