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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • If you want truly bulletproof clothing appliances and live in America, look up Speed Queen. They’re built to commercial standards and are trivially repairable. Many last for decades with only minor maintenance and upkeep.

    Unfortunately, Speed Queen not available outside of America. 😭 Or, at least, absolutely not available in Western Canada.

    I went with LG, as Bosch didn’t have the capacity I was looking for. Pretty happy with LG for both washer and dryer, four years and counting without a single issue. Would be nice if the front-loading washer came with an automatic dehumidifier, tho, as we have to leave the door open to avoid funky smells developing.



  • Depends on when it was produced.

    My 1998 HP 4050DTN is still going strong, an absolutely bulletproof beast of a machine. Plus, I can get extra-stuffed cartridges for it that can do 20,000 sheets at 5% coverage. Even after two degrees and a quarter century I am only on my third cartridge.

    My HP 5000DTN wide-format printer is much the same.

    Of course, this was years before the DRM enshittification path that HP started down, so there is that.