Reaching for a repairman (or worse, replacing the thing) is in many backgrounds and countries still a modern luxury. Instilling the idea that things like this are left to "true" professionals is the goal of decades-long commercial conditioning of now generations of humans. So yes, no wonder that someone sees this as amazing - I see this as simply what one does; fixing things.
My mum knew how to do a quick fan belt or radiator fix in the middle of nowhere when the car broke down, and I wouldn't call her a hacker for that, and it really was nothing special, in the context of how widely people fixed things like that.
And then people don't know how to sew on a proverbial button, so, yeah.
“I thought our fridge was going bad, I replaced a part and it seems to have worked”
Is this worthy of a blog entry and hackernews? I think many adults end up doing this every couples months.
Reaching for a repairman (or worse, replacing the thing) is in many backgrounds and countries still a modern luxury. Instilling the idea that things like this are left to "true" professionals is the goal of decades-long commercial conditioning of now generations of humans. So yes, no wonder that someone sees this as amazing - I see this as simply what one does; fixing things.
My mum knew how to do a quick fan belt or radiator fix in the middle of nowhere when the car broke down, and I wouldn't call her a hacker for that, and it really was nothing special, in the context of how widely people fixed things like that.
And then people don't know how to sew on a proverbial button, so, yeah.