Well written. That really resonated with me. I work in IT and grew up in a locksmith/car repair shop where I got my hands dirty very early on. I got my DIY/rep

Well written. That really resonated with me. I work in IT and grew up in a locksmith/car repair shop where I got my hands dirty very early on. I got my DIY/repair attitude from my father who does almost anything by himself - building and maintaining houses, making furniture, metal work, vehicle maintenance. So that is also deeply rooted in me. It's not uncommon in my circle to DIY, mostly as a hobby, to save money or because availability of craftsmanship is so poor (waiting months to get someone to do it). I really like to get broken stuff, fix it and then use or sell it. Such work leaves you with a broad knowledge, and also who is designing repairable machines. Old style italian espresso machines come to my mind. While only some components are standardized (piping, thermostats, portafilters, e61 brew group) many proprietary components needed for repairs are still openly sold on 3rd party stores on the Internet. Sometimes the schematic is also published. The newer and more integrated plastic machines are less of a joy to work on, alas. That's mostly toss-and-rebuy gear. Before I buy anything, I check maintainability first. Parts availability, hackability, etc. Glued stuff, soldered on chips (formerly RAM, wifi, CPUs etc), nonswappable batteries, hard cloud dependencies and similar scaries me.