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Stuck in the middle with you (lemmy.world)
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[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Decided on a whim to fix up an old car from the 80s. I was able to tear it down to the frame and reassemble it with not much more than a set of imperial wrenches. That's a bit of an oversimplification but not much. And while there was a lot that could go wrong there was nothing that was a black box where you could get to a point where if something was wrong you would throw up your hands and say, “Oh, well. Guess this is garbage now!” Different time, I guess.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yup, now you spend several hundred on a Chinese clone of whatever factory diagnostics tool allows you to code modules and such. And there are still probably things you can't touch.