True that, but hey I actually think that boomers et all, (we all do sometimes) kind of pulled up the ladder on that skill set if you know what I mean, like I watched so much stuff change in a negative way in my generation, decisions made by people over 30, who did it just as a money grab or in order to prevent people from becoming “competent” or “capable” at stuff.
I’m talking about everything from removable batteries to built in batteries, exposed screws on frames to plastic caps, CPU going from LGA sockets to ball grid array, supergluing plastic clips for DC power supplies, lots of little things have been done to essentially prevent people from being able to do their jobs or even fix their own things properly.
I’m an honest believer that sometimes in order to go two step forwards you may need to take one step back, because moving forwards sometimes naturally involves looking at how you would make things more approachable for the next generation, and a lot of people have purposefully done the exact opposite in order to assert dominance or simply contain others, and have inadvertently handicapped not only their own offspring, but every single person further down the line, due to their shortsightedness.
Just look at the way Japan’s appliance engineers have normalized planned obsolescence of “hard to recycle” stuff, and the resulting mountain of e-waste that China, the Philippines and now the rest of the world now has to deal with.
Sorry for the long rant. Japans big conglomerates have done a shit job engineering stuff, and would make for better artists than engineers, and America being one of the largest consumer markets for many of their end products has enabled this crap.
True that, but hey I actually think that boomers et all, (we all do sometimes) kind of pulled up the ladder on that skill set if you know what I mean, like I watched so much stuff change in a negative way in my generation, decisions made by people over 30, who did it just as a money grab or in order to prevent people from becoming “competent” or “capable” at stuff.
I’m talking about everything from removable batteries to built in batteries, exposed screws on frames to plastic caps, CPU going from LGA sockets to ball grid array, supergluing plastic clips for DC power supplies, lots of little things have been done to essentially prevent people from being able to do their jobs or even fix their own things properly.
I’m an honest believer that sometimes in order to go two step forwards you may need to take one step back, because moving forwards sometimes naturally involves looking at how you would make things more approachable for the next generation, and a lot of people have purposefully done the exact opposite in order to assert dominance or simply contain others, and have inadvertently handicapped not only their own offspring, but every single person further down the line, due to their shortsightedness.
Just look at the way Japan’s appliance engineers have normalized planned obsolescence of “hard to recycle” stuff, and the resulting mountain of e-waste that China, the Philippines and now the rest of the world now has to deal with.
Sorry for the long rant. Japans big conglomerates have done a shit job engineering stuff, and would make for better artists than engineers, and America being one of the largest consumer markets for many of their end products has enabled this crap.
Just my two cents.