Tv started acting up today, found a bulged cap on the main board, it's a trough hole, the only one I find to match is a surface mount. I used some resistor legs to poke through the TV board and soldered the surface mount cap to the poking legs. TV is back to life ! Yay !
It pisses me off that the reason most tech get filled with ads and shit is because people want to use it but are not bothered to learn anything about it. Like input selection, they need to press one button and everything has to be setting itself up without interaction or they will complain it's too hard.
Then the ad company makes shit to make it seem easy but fills it up with spyware and ads. Lazy People adopt the easy way and endure the shit that comes with it while bending for more.
It infuriates me to no end almost everyday I get new plasticized paper ads in my snail mail. Like yeah keep destroying the planet in hopes of selling more junk to destroy the planet with. And my city made it mandatory ! They are not allowed to skip a house.
Hey that's how I got into computer repairs.
I was fooling around in the bios after giving in and pressing delete whole booting as it displayed.
I saw a password thing and decided it would be fun to be lock my computer so no one can fuck it up.
Righ after reboot my AUDHD brain had forgotten the password.
I tried calling computer repair shops arround me, most straight up asked for 60-100$, and some would plain refuse unless I had proof of purchase. Then one of them spoke too much, he said he would have to find a way to contour battery power and reset the cmos and charged 60$. That is when I remembered seeing a reset labeled jumper right by the battery. I decided to try, turns out it was that simple and not so simple. The password got erased... as well as all system settings such as hard drive settings (386 so need to know head, cylinder and sector count) was a fun adventure to get everything right again but removed all fears of trying. I figured if I can fuck it up I can fix it.
Many of those were small infractions. I would bet no more than 4% of that 30% is actually a "bad" infraction, and then how many of those are false accusations etc...
Security by obscurity is a myth