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I like my Vessi shoes and plan on buying another pair.

Grip6 belts. Waited awhile until they had a Father’s Day sale a year ago to buy a simple black one with a honeycomb buckle. That thing is now my everyday belt. I now have 3 belts, 4 buckles, and have 3 more belt/buckle coming from Prime Day.

Tailscale is pretty fucking great if you’re into self-hosting

Banned to mention names. Guess I can't comment further.

Atoms shoes. Back then, they did quarter sizes and you could get two different sizes because most people have different sized feet. They were awesome and I bought several more pairs.

They've been out of stock of most common sizes for a couple months without restocking and yesterday when I clicked the Contact link to ask about resupply the link is dead / goes to a redirect page. I think they're about to go out of business. Fucking shame.

I actually liked Factor and heard about it from a podcast. It worked really well for me but I didn't keep it more than a few months because it is so expensive. If I lived alone or made more money I'd do it again.

Backblaze, it’s a personal cloud backup solution that just works in the background. I don’t have to manage a backup protocol, I get an offsite backup, and it’s cheaper than trying to let a file sharing service like Dropbox or Google do my backups.

Might be placebo for some, but I really liked Beam Dream. It really helps me to fall asleep quickly and keeps me sleeping until morning without the groggyness of just melatonin. It is pretty pricey though so I only buy it when the site offers me discounts.

Linode Cloud Services (now owned by Akamai). Heard about them on multiple Linux youtubers channels. Been hosting multiple apps and websites with them for a couple years now on their lowest plan and it works well. I'm sure people have their criticisms of them, but I've yet to have any issues.

Zenni eyeglasses. They’re great.

Ridge wallet is the best purchase I made in a long time. So great I didn't feel bad about buying a second one for a cool design and for a dual money clip setup a few years later.

I saw a video going over atheletic greens and it was a pretty subpar supplement.

I've heard raycons are way overpriced.

I asked gamersupps support if it's vegan, since their website doesn't say and they have some ingredients that could be animal derived or plant based/synthetic, and they told me to look at the website.

sooo... in my experience/what I've heard, no not really any good ones come to mind

Ground News. The blind spot feature gives me great insight to where my "out of touch" family is coming from with their political narratives.

Not exactly an explicit ad, but more a product I heard about from an infomercialesque "review" for the PCPanel.

It was a cheap gadget that addressed a shortcoming I was experiencing. It works well and I use it every time I use my computer.

My Hansen razor, bought it over a year ago because the cheap plastic safety razor got too annoying to use and I remembered the ad.

Didn't spend extra for the titanium version and got the aluminium instead.

It's not my main way of shaving since I bought an electric shaver few months ago to do it in less than 5 minutes in the morning, but I have kept it for when I want to actually get everything shaved and the large pack of blades should last me a decade with my usage

Squarespace. Works pretty well for my needs tbh.