Ikea. And I'm not kidding. They make theirs with reputable manufacturers (Electrolux and Whirlpool, at least in Europe), they have functions that are still rare in others like popping out the door when finished, AND they have more than double the usual warranty. (5 years instead of the usual 2.)
We LOVE ours and everybody I know that has theirs from there.
That's my experience too. Just absolutely to brag, but I wasn't actively applying in the last 10 years, I was always headhunted.
I mean not personally as if everybody knows in the industry that Golem is the shit, but as in when I get bored after 2-3 years at my current job and I want a nicer salary bump, I start to answer some of the more interesting LinkedIn messages and usually in about a month I land something new.
As notice periods are recognized and written into law (the law says that minimum 30 days or whatever your contract says), they can sue you for lost profit. It's basically that your contract is not up, not finished until your notice period ends, so the same enforcement applies as if you won't show up for work some day. You are still a full-time, fully recognized employee until your notice ends.
But breaking it is not really a thing here: we are used to it, and it's actually recognized as mutually beneficial. If they fire me, I still have 2 months of sure salary and if I resign, they have 2 months to look for a replacement.
Okay, but.
Are they Marxist-Leninist? Pro-China? Socialists? Anti-capitalists? Looks like: yes.
Was the whole thing founded on the grounds of free, shared things and anti-corporate thinking? Also yes.
Do we absolutely know for sure that the ML domain was chosen because of this? No, because the fucking register of the domain himself said it was chosen because it was free.
It was simply just free.
People and their "knowledge" about topics they don't know anything about...
Dessalines is the owner of the domain, one of the owners of the ML instance and one of the full-time devs of the Lemmy code.
I think an overwhelming number of people simply chose that instance becuase it was the instance, made by the devs themselves. At least it was the case for me.
I use it exactly for that. It's a secondary, long term backup which I plan to hopefully never retrieve. It's basically write-only for me and I hope it will remain that way. (Because if it's not, I lost my on-site backup AND my primary cloud backup as well. So I'm probably very fucked.)
Good for you, guys! Wish you all the best, now you can finally heal. Greetings from Hungary