Post number #762848, ID: ec70af
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Pressed enter by accident.
4chan's /csg/ on /g/ got me a habit of consooming chinese stuff and so far I've bought a couple of smartwatches, keyboard, headphone and some mousepad all for dirty cheap. How about you,/tech/, do you buy chinese hardware?
Post number #762872, ID: bbac65
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For sure. How else am I gonna get off from a government agency watching me?
Post number #762916, ID: 226d9a
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"Like"? No, but just because it's not something I think about. China is practically next-door to the country I live in so it's impossible to avoid anyway.
Post number #762924, ID: e2ed90
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I used to import cheap Chinese stuff to sell back in my country. Stuff like LEDs, flashlights, TV-remotes, laser pointers etc. The best part were the €1.50 Xbox 360 headsets that performed better than the official €15 dollar ones. Those sold like butter. One time an artist wanted to buy hundreds of thousands of LEDs for an art installation so I ordered them from Hong Kong before repacking them and sold them to him. Earned like €4000 in an hours work.
Post number #762970, ID: aea477
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I feel like it isn't really avoidable. I mean, either you buy parts and stuff directly from china (with the exception of Taiwan), or you buy technology where all the parts come from the same place anyway, it's just been through a lot of rebranding and extra companies. I'd rather just buy it directly in that case.
Post number #763270, ID: 3f775d
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>>762848 >How about you,/tech/, do you buy chinese hardware? Is there even any hardware on the market without components produced in china?
Post number #763275, ID: 3f775d
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I also wouldn't call hardware "consooming" goods but rather durables. Physically they can last for decades and the increase of computing capacities isn't really usefull in most usecases. (no one needs n-core cpu, gigs of ram and 3d accel to send and recieve text messages or even pictures, lol) Unfortunately many devices are made "outdated" by the industry via marketing & stupid software design that suffers from lack of long-term-support, standardization and stupid licencing models.
Post number #763279, ID: 3f775d
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My keyboard and mouse work now for over 10 years. My "Smartphone" is from 2016, the official support was dropped already in 2018. Now it is only driven by community power (xda-developers). If some components get damaged/broken I order replacement parts directly from china. There is no other way, since the producer abandoned any support for the device.
Post number #763281, ID: 3f775d
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My Desktop and even Laptop are much easier to maintain from software and hardware side, thanks to proper standards that partly even go back to the 80s. I rarely bought new parts for my Desktop and until now not directly from china but from the local hardware store. Importing to save costs would only cause problems since 90% of the costs here are caused by licence/patent shit anyways.
Post number #763284, ID: 7ddd01
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>>762924 You're garbage, good job.
Post number #763314, ID: e2ed90
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>>763284 There was an opportunty in the market and I filled it in. Felt pretty good about it, desu.
Post number #763379, ID: 7ddd01
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>>763314 Same answer.
Post number #763385, ID: e2ed90
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>>763379 Jealous much? I'm rich and you're not. <3
Post number #763391, ID: 4bd5b1
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Being an importer/exporter is immoral now?
Post number #763442, ID: c25df0
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Having worked for a Chinese company in Japan that tried to pass itself off as Japanese, I try to stay away from Chinese goods these days. It's pretty easy to spot such companies just based on their name. Sometimes it's impossible so I end up buying less.
Post number #763564, ID: b136cc
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>>763385 https://i.pinimg.com/originals/45/53/7c/45537c471f957d8d6501a4f05384d28b.gif
Post number #763796, ID: ba60a3
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I love consuming Chinese food
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