Heard something profoundly disturbing today (Vanity)

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[smokingfrog]

My son built his own computer before graduating HS. I taught him some basic car maintenance and woodworking skills but he wasn’t much interested in those things.

[Osage Orange]

Very good...Very good!!

[bgill]

Back when, we learned how to write a check and balance our accounts in 4th grade. We’d bring our pennies to school one day a week and the teacher would stamp our bank passbooks. The bank was Ben Franklin Savings and Loan and gave us heavy metal Ben Franklin piggy banks. I had one for years and may still have it somewhere.

But kids today think they’re so smart.

[familyop]

The elite don’t need to learn to use screwdrivers. Their duty is to fabricate and pass regulations against private property rights in order to drive technically inclined people into homelessness. They are paid to produce trouble, may they take us through the remainder of the default process quickly.

[bgill]

It never occurred to me that not all men knew their way around engines and such...

Some of us women do, too.

[centurion316]

We got the special extra credit class about how to temper that soft steel. Priceless.

[Chode]

feh...

[familyop]

Those students will be great NIMBYs, following in their parents’ footsteps.

[gop4lyf]

Yes, and yes. Hate to disappoint you.

[VerySadAmerican]

Not disappointed at all. Good for you! Are you teaching in the inner city?

[DuncanWaring]

Heat to red and quench?

[wally_bert]

So that’s what I’ve been doing wrong all this time. Lol.

I’m revamping my old Willys jeep dash and making several modifications and modernizing some. I do not want to pull the dash off again.

Some of what will be wired will be soldered. There is the usual crimping and heat shrinking too. I plan for my connections to hold.

[Vermont Lt]

My eighth grade shop class was print shop. I got to use the big copy camera. It literally changed the direction of my life.

I also helped build my parents log cabin. 3,000 square feet of cabin. And I planed three sides of every log. Twice.

My wife is still a little surprised when I know how to fix stuff. I like to keep her guessing.

[norton]

Bet he didn’t know the difference between acid and rosin core solder

I sit back and scratch my head over that one every time I need to solder electrics but they always seem to work.

[familyop]

"Millennial’s, Dumber than Dirt, but some of the Proudest Morons you will ever meet."

The progeny of local government and connected service business bosses, yes.

Their are some very technically inclined other ones, though, much more so than their parents and grandparents dumped out of the trades long ago. Those younger folks live increasingly more austere, learn to repair many useful things and learn to build many things in order to survive. They use old computers and free software for gathering knowledge.

Let the elite, however, smoke and eat their stylish, legalized drug. Let them spend their time staring at social interactions on their screens. Let them be ever more "socialized" and intent on being the political/regulator class leaders of tomorrow.

[tacticalogic]

Heat to red and quench?

I posted that exact same answer on StackOverflow once, when somebody asked about how to "harden a server".

[DuncanWaring]

Next question - how to “wipe a server?”.

[OftheOhio]

Mom always chided me as a young boy for taking things apart and putting them together again. I spent most of my life as an engineering designer, helping dad work on 1970’s cars was very instructional and formed the basis of my critical thinking skills. Why couldn’t that have been done differently. I learned to think out of the box.
I once turned an aircraft blast gate off an aircraft carrier
into a hypersonic test chamber. My bosses often caught me with a wrench in my hand and a sheepish look on my face, lol.

[tacticalogic]

Next question - how to “wipe a server?”.

I use an arc welder. Put it on AC, crank the amps all the way up, ground the hard drive case and drop a stick of 6011 through it a few times.

[mrsmith]

It’s a matter of having opportunity- and necessity.

My career was in factory maintenance and the best technicians, by a large margin, had a naval or farming background.