Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "An important reminder of what we've lost" video.

Swapping parts is hardly doing a repair.
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You see no difference between a tractor made in the 50s and one made now? In the past 70+ years a few things have changed.
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@asdrubale bisanzio I would say that increasing complexity has outstripped the average person's ability to deal with things. The past was certainly a simpler time. Although it is easy to sell our ancestors short. Just having the tools doesn't make everyone an expert blacksmith either.
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@bubbajones5905 parts swapping is not fixing things. A real repair fixes what you have. Like if you took the PSU apart and replaced the faulty components in it. Buying another PSU and putting it in is not fixing anything. It's buying another PSU. You did not make it work again. You replaced it. That's like saying I fixed my car by buying a new one.
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@FluorescentGreen5 replacing a PSU is like changing the oil in your car. It is not a repair, it is maintenance. By rights you should be replacing a PC PSU every 5 years. Because they really can't be counted on to last longer than that. There's parts in them that degrade over time and cause them to output excessive ripple. Which is not something you can see but it adversely affects the PC itself. Beyond regulating voltage PSUs also need to output clean power as well. Or they're not doing their job. You cannot see ripple without test equipment. But you can assume its existence. PSUs are wear items. Like batteries or tires in cars. They cannot last forever. Mechanical HDDs are wear items themselves. Well SSDs are wear items too.
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The market drives design. Consumers demand ridiculous things. In order to remain viable in the market manufacturers have to meet consumer demands too. So you're really blaming others for your own shortcomings.
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I'm just a comedian those others are the producers. They're the ones that own the means of production. So not communists. You are thinking of other others. Who can be a problem themselves.
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I'm just a comedian there is some overlap. There is in any large sets.
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@sempressfi the reason they do not have to worry about competition is because the barrier of entry is extremely high today. It costs 40 billion dollars to build a state of the art chip fab now. So it is not something someone is going to do out of their garage. That's why there's only two in the whole world. Intel is trying to get back on the list but along with money it takes time too.
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@ryanfuller4401 video games could be a low hanging fruit problem. As in there was just more to pick in the 90s than now. Plus we're dealing with some social issues now that were not such a problem in the 90s. The whole wokeness thing. The video game industry drank the Woke-a-Cola. They big time hit the bottle. Copium addiction has serious repercussions. Diversity is not strength.
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@ryanfuller4401 have you ever considered that as things have gotten more complex they have gotten more fragile as well? The military has done studies on technology breaking down and they've found that as complexity increases reliability decreases. More parts means more points of failure. Simple is reliable but things are not as simple today as they used to be.
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@ryanfuller4401 I bet your couch has gotten more complex. It probably uses more man made building materials.
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@ryanfuller4401 "more complex" does not mean better or improved. It can, but it does not always have to. Complexity comes in many varieties. With design and materials being two of them. The tooling cost of making man made building goods is not cheaper either. Particle board may be garbage but you have to admire the process used to manufacture it.
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@ryanfuller4401 particle board harnesses the power of particle physics!
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You can still do your own repairs if you put the work in. What you cannot do is demand access to intellectual property though. And good luck setting a wagon tire if you do not know what you're doing. In fact many farmer repairs leave much to be desired. I do not blame John Deere for not wanting their products festooned with baling wire.
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If you can then what are you complaining about?
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@FluorescentGreen5 when a PSU dies it has then exceeded its useful operating life. Trust me on this one.
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@FluorescentGreen5 if a light bulb blows and you put in a new one did you really repair the lamp? Most would say you just changed the bulb. Now if you had a frayed cord and replaced that then you might be able to say you repaired the lamp.
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@FluorescentGreen5 In the automobile repair trade there's two kinds. There's the guy who just swaps parts and then there's the guy that fixes what's broken. The latter is held in higher regard as the more adept and talented mechanic. This is also not a topic where I'd go to bookworms to settle either. As they're not very invested in things themselves. People that write dictionaries probably can't change light bulbs.
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@FluorescentGreen5 you have to diagnose the fault at a deeper level to repair components inside a faulty assembly. Today often your best course is to simply replace things. I wouldn't try to repair a bad PSU. It's just not worth it. Not when $100 gets you a new one. I replace PSUs when they still work just to avoid the problems they can cause when they do fail. As far as a definition of what a repair is to me I do not have one. I have a philosophy instead. You can sum it up simply by saying I know a repair when I see one. Watch a guy on here called Mustie1. He repairs things.
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@FluorescentGreen5 for every blown capacitor you see there's 10,000 in the walls.
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@FluorescentGreen5 it would. Usually when one part blows on a board it blows for a reason though. Replacing the blown part doesn't usually fix what caused it to blow either. Sometimes the part is just faulty. But that is the exception rather than the rule. It's one of those traps for home gamers. I fixed my flat screen TV by recapping the PSU in it. That model did have faulty components in it. There was a recall. But shipping the unit would have cost me more than fixing it myself. It'd have taken longer too. When I recapped it I replaced all the PSU caps. Whether they were bad, or not. They were all crap caps (TEAPO?). I put in Nichicons. Which are pretty decent. I should have gotten Rubys. Rubicon caps are the best!
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@FluorescentGreen5 you actually can just replace parts at random until you achieve the desired effect. It is called part swapping. It's a popular technique with less skilled technicians. We used to laugh about it in the mechanic business, we'd say the last part on the bill was the one you needed. The rest were just guesses the tech got wrong first.
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@FluorescentGreen5 I am more for the spirit rather than the letter in many circumstances. Pendantry annoys me then. Call it a personal proclivity. Because that's what it is.
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@FluorescentGreen5 corporations do not owe independents anything. The only people corporations owe any fiduciary allegiance to is their shareholders. The rest can be damned. And by legal obligation should be. To whatever extent maximizes profits. That is the ethics upon which this country was founded on. There is no right to repair in any legal document. Anyone that does not like it has the right to not patronize whoever. Otherwise if you're going to play with their bat and their ball then you play by their rules too.
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@FluorescentGreen5 regulation is never a good thing. Here's a thought, don't tell other people what they can and cannot do. If I want to make something it is none of your business how I go about it. That goes the same for John Deere, Apple et. al.
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@FluorescentGreen5 no one owes anyone anything. If you want a schematic then I suggest you get yourself a pencil and a piece of paper and draw your own. Unauthorized repair centers do not have any right to demand access to anything either. No one asked them to open up shop. Trying to impose your rules you are limiting the freedom of others. You don't think corporations don't take into account the lifespan of the products they make? They count on stuff breaking! That's how they stay in business. How fly by night repair shops stay in business is not their problem either. Now be a good little consumer and just consume already. Or don't. That option is always available to you too. But if you buy in then you buy in on others terms.
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Time moves forwards. That's just how it works.
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@asdrubale bisanzio what is occurring now has nothing to do with customs. It has everything to do with technology outpacing average ability. You cannot compare digital logic to sharpening a sickle. Well, apparently a lot want to. Doesn't make it rational though.
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