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We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower
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I do think people in general could benefit from maybe $100 in tools and a healthy dose of Youtube when it comes to this point. My PC of 10 years wouldn't boot one morning because my SSD died. There wasn't anything too important on it that I hadn't backed up, but it was still a bummer. I took it apart, and started poking around. Found a short across a capacitor, so I started cycling capacitors. Sure enough, one was bad. Replaced it. Boots just fine. (Moved everything to a new SSD just in case).
All I needed for this job was a multimeter and a soldering iron (though hot air gun made it slightly easier).
I think the "black box" nature of electronics is mostly illusory due to how we treat our devices. A friend bought a walking treadmill that wouldn't turn on out of the box. She contacted the company, they told her to trash it and just shipped her a new one.
She gave it to me, I took it apart. One of the headers that connects the power switch to the mainboard was just unplugged. It took literally 10 minutes to "fix" including disassembly and assembly, and all I needed was a screwdriver.
Yet there's zero expectation of user maintenance. If it doesn't work, trash it.
This guy might be looking in the wrong places.
eh. give me schematics. i can't fix anything beyond trivial issues without it.
then it won't be as much of a black box.
I'd argue that 10-15% of issues are trivial issues and are worth investigating even without a schematic if the alternative is just throwing something away.
and i do because i don't want to throw away this expensive piece of tech. but like, manufacturers in the early 2000s were still sharing this very valuable information with me. i hate planned obsolescence with a passion.