the population of the country barely has any capability to understand the purpose of circuit boards, diodes or capacitors let alone how to design a circuit to utilize them.
we’ve dumbed down the population to sub third world status
“the population of the country barely has any capability to understand the purpose of circuit boards, diodes or capacitors let alone how to design a circuit to utilize them.”
Not all of them...but I feel that the percentage of capable young people is much smaller in propotion to “the rest” than it was even 20 years ago.
I buy most of my geek parts from China these days, and they are making original, creative sruff, stuff that clearly was never “invented here first”, and yes, it hurts for me to write this.
True..too true..I remember some 35 years ago when I finished building my Heathkit tuner, pre-amp, and amp..I bought them at the local hobby shop..and the best advice I ever got from the owner was before I started to build the first, to spend several hours practicing my soldering..