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Watching TV makes you good with RF.
by NullPrefix 8y ago
Watching TV makes you good with RF.
- whatshisface 8y agoWatching TV in the 50s made you good with knob adjustment and basic electronics maintenance, just because things tended to break and also tended to break in fixable ways. The same thing is true today, kids that play Minecraft aren't getting any better with computers by clicking on blocks, they are getting better by doing the things necessary to keep the blocks there in front of them (because if you want to install mods or run a server for your friends for example Minecraft becomes about as reliable as an early TV).
- userbinator 8y agoWatching TV in the 50s made you good with knob adjustment and basic electronics maintenance, just because things tended to break and also tended to break in fixable ways. In particular, tube replacement was pretty common DIY and even nonspecialist corner stores would sell tubes and have self-service testers: http://travelphotobase.com/v/USOK/OKCH66.HTM http://travelphotobase.com/v/USOK/OKCH66.HTM In similar analogy, I wonder how many people today know how to replace a lightbulb and will do it themselves, and what that would be like in a few decades...
- whatshisface 8y agoEmbedded computers have done a lot to ruin automotive DIY. Someone should write a short story where nobody can change their low-failure-rate LED light bulbs without calling a technician who has a programmer card with the right IoT private keys. Electric utilities are no longer common-carier and underground cyberpunk "Edisons" fabricate incandscents that disguise themselves as toasters on the grid in order to circumvent the expensive licensing deals between lightbulb manufacturers and power companies.