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What is a product you would never recommend? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

Huawei, Xiaomi and Samsung phones

main reason: anti user freedom, and locking you in to their system, it's extremely hard to wipe out your phone in order to sell it if you have a Samsung account linked to your phone, and they make it hard to flash a custom ROM, imagine buying a phone with your own money and you still need the manufacturer consent to do what you want with it..
confusing and slow UI
Ads everywhere on the UI
bloated with games and useless apps
they don't take security seriously at all ( slow updates )
short update period
they lie in their marketing by giving big numbers ( battery capacity and camera quality for example )

And last but not least, they kill your apps

[–] pkill 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

also Huawei laptops. Jfc what a trashy counterfeit of a MacBook and if you get an AMD one, better also get a good cooling stand. The keyboard is terrible and costs a fuckton to replace and generally the repairability is like with macs, the USB ports are built in a way that just begs for either them or your peripherals to be broken, they might overheat while charging, they ship bloatware and the speakers are ridiculously quiet. My friend's mom bought her one contrary to my advice to get a second-hand thinkpad or just any other business-line laptop and it she had to return the first shipment because the screen got bent during shipment.

MIUI... don't even get me fucking started on this garbage. It literally removes numerous features from vanilla android, presumably to relocate some performance budget to the bloat they add.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yep I've seen Huawei and Xiaomi MacBook copies and you only need to take one look at the keyboard to know they're trashy.

I got a second hand ThinkPad and it's fast and robust. Designed to last like a proper MacBook.

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