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The fail rates may have reduced some interest, but I believe there's other bigger reasons: + Students are increasingly brought up to do memorisation over creat

by Joakal 15y ago

The fail rates may have reduced some interest, but I believe there's other bigger reasons: + Students are increasingly brought up to do memorisation over creativity. + It's hard to hack integrated microchips. Especially with proprietary software. Want to repair your own car? Need to take it to a Brand(tm) Certified car repair service to even get the proprietary diagnostic. Even then, they may refuse to give the logs to you. + Loss of ownership with IP laws. Try to break open Wii? You're a pirate! Jailbreaking? Bad! Also run the risk of being sued for talking about breaking open hardware despite owning it.

nickpinkston 15y ago
It's largely a myth that you need proprietary scans. OBDII/III are standards that give instructive error codes - it's actually pretty easy with them and a good multimeter. The manuals are step by step - I'd say parts monopolies in German cars, etc. hurt worse.
- Joakal 15y ago
  Was talking about stuff like this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/05/right-repair-law-pro https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/05/right-repair-law-pro
rimantas 15y ago
> Students are increasingly brought up to do > memorisation over creativity. Is is so, or is this just a popular thought mindlessly repeated over and over? The thing is, for creativity you need a foundation of knowledge and there is no way to avoid memorization. Also, you may need to memorize what was already done: if you keep recreating everything yourself from scratch you may not have time to create anything new.