yes, I am old, but my next generation both know how to solder and how to sew. My daughter has both a sewing machine and a serger. She has become the "Go to" person in her circle to repair a treasured possession instead of the pitch and repurchase cycle. When you have little money, maintenance becomes more important. My son learned to solder at the age of 5.
We've had a great run of economics these last 15 years, but this will not last. The nextgen will need to work harder than the Boomers. On Sat, 20 Jan 2024 at 14:10, o1bigtenor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 11:26 AM Don Tai via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > "I'd like to say that soldering is a basic life-skill, but it isn't. " I > think it is. > > > > If you do any kind of electronics repair or hacking, then you must know > how to solder. It isn't difficult. You just need practice. Tutorials abound > on YT. Knowing how to use a multimeter is also an essential life skill. > Without these fundamental skills you must trash equipment that somehow went > awry and buy another one. This is similar to mending your clothing. You can > just pitch the clothing and buy new, or buy better quality and learn to > mend what you have. The choice is yours. > > > > With the quality of product dropping as time passes, there is more of a > need to repair older but better quality products (computer tech excluded) > than to simply buy new. Learn how to solder and sew yourself, find someone > that knows, or pay someone to do it for you. > > > > Hmmmmm - - - - you pretty much put your age in neon with a comment > like that - - - lol. > Not that I disagree in fact. > > The ethos has evolved to where from about 15 to 20 years ago it is now > considered > ethically imperative to discard and buy new on a very very regular basis. > Someone has to be spending money quite regularly to make all those nice > salaries > that mid and upper management from most large companiesand the increase the > wealth of the financial elite. Heaven forfend if the financial elite's > net worth isn't increasing > by at least 15% per annum! > > HTH > (tongue firmly in cheek) >
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