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The beauty of repairing gadgets is that as long as they’re not incredibly broken, any generally intelligent person can learn on their own. Broken gadgets usual
by Waterluvian 3y ago
The beauty of repairing gadgets is that as long as they’re not incredibly broken, any generally intelligent person can learn on their own. Broken gadgets usually make it clear how they’re supposed to work, just by the nature of their parts and assembly.
Find yourself a supply of broken appliances, perhaps at a Goodwill-like store or an online marketplace and get started finding that broken sprocket or stretched belt or bad capacitor.
It’s ridiculously satisfying taking something that’s destined for the landfill and making it live again.
Oh and YouTube. Lots of YouTube. There’s a video for how to troubleshoot and fix just about everything. YouTube has helped me fix a broken stand mixer, dishwasher, dryer, small fission reactor, computer keyboard, sewing machine, ceiling fan, ice maker, and many I’m surely forgetting. And I’m just a clueless web dev!
- sigstoat 3y ago> The beauty of repairing gadgets is that as long as they’re not incredibly broken, any generally intelligent person can learn on their own. Broken gadgets usually make it clear how they’re supposed to work, just by the nature of their parts and assembly. "tell me you have a 120 IQ without telling me you have a 120 IQ"
- 2301421898 3y agoI'm very confused. What does this mean?
- ovi256 3y ago> Broken gadgets usually make it clear how they’re supposed to work, just by the nature of their parts and assembly. You're assuming most people have strong reverse engineering skills, but really only a small fraction of the general population has them. sigstoat implies the high IQ people are more likely to have this skill as raw IQ allows them to quickly learn the skill on the job.