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This is not a conversation about guns. This is a conversation about items that have withstood abuse that are near unbreakable.

Some items I have heard referenced as AK47 of:

Gerber MP600: It's a multi tool

Old Thinkpad Laptops

Mag lights

Toyota Hilux

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Pre GM SAABs. I've personally gotten 2 of my 5 to over 1,000,000 miles on the original engine and transmission. Both manual transmission. A couple hundred of them have made it to 2,000,000 world wide. The lowest milage I killed a SAAB at was 789,000 miles. I hydroplaned into a semi on I-75, and the car still technically ran, but I gave it to my parents as a parts car. Just read the owners manual, and be absolutely religious about basic maintenance.

Oh, and the turbos don't like low octane fuel. It gums them up.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The wrt54g. They don't make wifi routers like they used to.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Knipex Tools

Honda Engines.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Starrett tools. All of them. I've put them through Hell and back.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Game Boys are usually regarded as durable as hell. There's even one that withstood bombing during the Gulf War (1991)

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Cast iron skillets.

If you season and clean them the right way they will outlive you.

I'm using the same one that my parents owned for 30 years and hope I will get another 30 years of usage out of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Unless you put them in the dishwasher

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

Thats the beauty of cast iron though. Even putting it through the dishwasher doesnt ruin the pan permanently. You just have to re-season it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

As long as you don’t use a heated dry it’s pretty much fine tbh. If any rusts you just wipe it down or sand it and re season

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago

If someone puts my cast iron in the dishwasher the cast iron will still outlive them

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Can confirm with the old thinkpads. They're not great for gaming, but the keyboard, track pack, and eraser head are solid for writing and other office-like work.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The old part really does a lot of work here. New ThinkPads are utter trash :-/

I got excited to get one for work (having heard about the old ones) and was sorely disappointed. It thermal throttles if you look at it wrong, it keeps having BIOS issues with Lenovo being no help and the USB-C display connection (To a Lenovo monitor with their inbuilt docking station!) is iffy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I have two new P1 Gen 7's coming today, i hope they have fixed that

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I was just blaming the usb-c connection to my monitor and throttling on a combo of windows and corporate bloatware, I guess I feel a bit better that I'm not the only one.

The connection to my monitor is the most frustrating, sometimes won't even recognise it, sometimes after blanking the display it'll come back with the wrong resolution but still display like it was the original, it's super bizarre. Literally never had an issue with my personal Asus zenbook in either Debian or w11.

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