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Don't DIY what you can buy.
by flashback2199 3y ago
Don't DIY what you can buy.
- dns_snek 3y agoI hope you didn't mean it like that, but the way it's written sounds depressing. Doing & making things (within reason) is the essence of human experience. Buying all the things is the essence of consumerism.
- flashback2199 3y agoIt feels depressing until you realize the set of all things that you can DIY that you can't buy is infinite. Factor in that the things you can buy are extremely cheap when you factor in your time, due to mass production. So it doesn't make sense to spend time building something you can just buy. I just think it's a good principle that someone older than me shared with me a long time ago, in an electronics hobby store that no longer exists, when I was buying parts to build a bench power supply, though I had to discover some reasons the hard way. I thought they were being an ass at the time, so I plowed ahead with my project, and realized halfway thru that this project was pretty dumb and I should have just bought one and moved on to a better more interesting project.
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