The anti🚫-derailment🚃 & thread🧵 hijacking🔫 thread🧵 ⁉

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@amal

“Brands” in China don’t really exist for the most part… It’s normal for vendor contacts to change company names 20+ times over just a few years because brand is meaningless in a market that only cares about price.

I know… And I’m now remembering all the work that I did in the open source 3D printer side of things… You should see how badly designed most of the commercially available boards are, I almost got an aneurism from looking at Chinese schematics and jokingly mentioned that everyone in the project I was working on should ask for a raise…

@amal

Anker launched several subcompany names over the years to sell their barely functional products … I bought some eufy products before realizing it was just Anker by another name… and almost all of them are on their last leg after just a few years.

TP-Link has done the same. And their stuff doesn’t last…

Once again, I’m an idiot and the totally of this problem hasn’t fully clicked yet.