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Life used to be so much easier when it comes to choice. You needed a chair or a desk - you go to your local furniture store and buy whatever is available.

Now, you want a desk or a chair - you go research the top 10. Look at their pros and cons. Compare materials. Evaluate build quality. Go on YouTube and search for reviews. Spend a week confused because you thought you knew what you wanted but YouTubers are telling you something else. Then you search product websites add to cart. Leave. Come back in a week and go through the top 3 choices. Search YouTube again comparing the top 3 and can’t make up your mind. You finally find one that might be it but you still hesitate and do the search for alternatives to that one thing you chose. By this time your head is spinning and you decide not to buy anything and just get a cheapo thing at the hardware store only to regret your decision 3 months later.

Cykros 9mo ago

I at least miss when Amazon reviews were somewhat reliable. Youtube reviews at least get rid of the bots, though there's still always the suspicion that they're paid reviews.

My usual process though is, decided I might want something. Look into it a little, and then decide I probably don't need it anyway. A month later, my wife will have bought it for me, along with 4 other things I don't need, and then wonder why I'm annoyed at the clutter in the house.

I still say the best desk is an old door put on top of a couple filing cabinets, or, better yet, milk crates, so you can dispense with a need for a chair and just sit on the floor. Chairs are fiat furniture.

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HoloKat 9mo ago

So many Amazon reviews are fake and YouTube is mostly sponsored content now so it’s really hard to get unbiased reviews

Cykros 9mo ago

It means you have to not just read reviews anymore, but actually learn about material science and engineering so that you can assess the construction of a product from the specs themselves rather than read empirical data on the outcome.

Though I guess you could take ask AI what the optimal design and makeup of a product would be and the compare it...choose AI bots wisely though.