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HP printer, cars, appliances.
Dryer drum seals broke and bushings worn. I just bought parts and spent the time fixing it, to avoid the IOT new ones. Probably coat me 30% of getting a new one
Car: we were due for a new one, but we found a 2004 car in mint shape so we downgraded purposely. I wanted to be able to have easy repairs and no phone-home garbage of a new car, and never any SaaS nonsense.
For the Printer: the drugstore guy alerted me to the HP ink nonsense, so I went with a Canon.
Printers, not only just from enshittification, but also due to the fact that traditionally they were constantly having issues to the point of being a meme. I need to print something twice a year, so yeah, I ain't dealing with all that.
Good news, there's an open source project working to develop a printer, and it has working prototypes: https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/raspberry-pi-powered-open-source-printer-earns-design-award-nomination-but-still-has-no-price-nine-months-after-reveal
New cars, Adobe suite, meta suite, and most restaurants.
Software, but full disclosure: I did go wild and spend £5 on Symfonium a few years back which I don't grudge.
Hell yeah, and there's so much great FOSS software, makes me wonder why I didn't switch off paid subs for so many things sooner.
Home speakers, the "smart" kind
There's little I buy regularly that would have intrusive tech put in it. I hope they don't start making SmartBread. Go to make a sandwich but I have to wait for a security update so my sourdough can't be hacked (except it opens up 3 more security holes that weren't present before the update and now a Russian hacker is using my bread to make a jellied meat sandwich remotely).
HP printers. For a long time, they had been my printer of choice because of quality and Linux support, but the quality has been replaced by enshittification. The last two printers had been fuckups (two, because I mistook the first ones' shittyness for being a one-off bad one), and wasted overpriced ink on a massive scale.
Since then, I've added HP to my black list of printers. The other brand on that list is Canon. But that's another story.
That covers everything even the checkout at Walmart.
