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 <o1bigtenor@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 11:26 AM Don Tai via talk <talk@gtalug.org> 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)