📚 David Kadavy, author
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firewire400 :
“Buy a soldering iron I’ll never use again” is a weird take when the thesis is “why is it so hard to repair stuff?” If you want to repair stuff, you’ll use it plenty.
2026-08-08 03:01:33
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NPC :
that's capitalism, baby. inefficient to the max unless it's profit maxxing
2026-08-07 23:38:59
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Aunt Gladys :
this is a good microcosm for why radioshack was great for the average consumer. I remember buying bits and bobs to fix old remotes, VCRs and stuff in the early 2000s, in such a technical world learning to solder is like learning to change a tire, its really useful.
2026-08-07 23:06:52
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OldManNuclearBeard :
Because of military contracts I couldn’t just order the $184 part that was missing from the kit we had. I had all the info for the one piece I needed and was looking at it in our system. But no, that contract is terminal so can’t do it. But I sure could order the entire kit for $4,700.
2026-08-14 00:31:19
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Aqil Ahmed :
U found the most random craftsman battery powered soldering iron for 29 bucks tool only? Get a corded one for much cheaper
2026-08-13 13:59:15
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user4252847945643 :
tbh you can buy all the equipment to do it yourself for like $20, and learn a new skill
2026-08-08 01:04:11
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Reflundaro :
Buying a soldering iron is always a good idea. You will use it again guarunteed
2026-08-08 00:31:34
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Shaun :
It's a bold claim that you'll never use a soldering iron more than once.
2026-08-08 16:08:50
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enbyofthetrees :
My $20 soldering iron and an internet connection has saved me THOUSANDS of dollars. You can get cheap parts from China within a week, and YouTube can teach you just about anything. Once you realize you are capable of learning new skills and that you are almost NEVER the first person to have that exact problem, your life can get a lot cheaper. Every repair is basically free after the first one.
2026-08-08 05:15:23
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duby :
this is definitely a western thing, all over japan and asia its super common to find little repairs shops like this and over all a lot of their items are made super easy to repair. its funny because the UK and a few other places are actually putting new laws/ regulations into place to make companies make things more repairable.
2026-08-08 00:02:15
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Salsa dancing w/ my confusion :
If the options are DIY or toss… try DIY… best case scenario you fix it and learn a skill… worse case is you break it and you have to toss- which is what you were gonna do anyways if you didn’t dry… try to DIY you have NOTHING to lose!
2026-08-08 01:00:09
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egodamonra :
you can buy lose parts or single items, though if you are doing shipping and home delivery the maths stop adding up, a waste to pay 5-10 dollars for a 25c part delivery or whatever the rate is. A solid soldering iron opens the door for many small fixes, sometimes the soldering on a part can even come lose off the track, easy fix. Also soldering wire joints are premium work and increases reliability. A soldering iron to me is no different than owning a plunger not an every year use item, but they sure do come in handy.
2026-08-13 03:54:59
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semi.literate.builder :
guy's literally complaining about not being able to fix things when he's not willing to buy tools😂😂😂
2026-08-09 14:28:53
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InkedSeaTurtle :
We’ve been convinced that it’s not worth it because of capitalism and consumerism. But I want to learn how to do stuff like this so bad
2026-08-08 02:08:50
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IllIIIIlllII :
It's insanely frustrating how much friction capitalism adds to the economy. Like the defective part is basically free, and it takes close to no time. In a working economic system, you'd give somebody 5 bucks, and they'd happily take care of it. But in our world, every move done by a worker requires like 30 capitalists to profit of of the worker's back
2026-08-08 06:48:15
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barsepfauqf :
This type of problem is massive in high salary countries, i want to fix my stuff but it's just not viable
2026-08-08 10:37:04
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Bal Cony :
bro what is your point even? are you surprised specialized electronics are not generally available in single pieces and not wprth fixing it for most companies??
2026-08-08 06:14:16
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The__one :
The problem is that in your eyes is cheap 5 min repair 👍 But in eyes of repairshop material cost basicly 0, but it took about 30 min of someones work time (cleark at desk + work) So that is about 20-30$ costs just to break even with zero profit 😢 And you add 20$ profit... then it is 50$ for in your eyes "5 min repair" 😵💫
2026-08-08 06:32:58
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Abi :
How much do LLMs ‚guide‘ you through the writing process ?
2026-08-08 11:22:26
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XxFudd1911xX :
It depends on the guy tbh, my car dash had a capacitor like that fail, i walked into an i fix it and said, ca you guys solder? He said yup, i said ever do a car he said nah but ill try, he fixed it in 2 minutes worked beautifully and didn’t even ask for any $, he said “i just wanted to see if i could”
2026-08-08 02:16:37
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jololo :
200-300 dollar are crazy 🤣 50bucks should be a normal price for a 10min job
2026-08-08 09:33:48
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TamaLapoa :
I used to buy broken car amplifiers and fix them then resell as a side hustle when I was in college. There are still people who repair electronics but there isn’t much money in it since it’s almost cheaper just to buy a replacement in many cases
2026-08-08 01:13:02
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Taco enthusiast :
Fixing the capacitor is only a few moments, the part itself is a few pennies. The cost is associated with the time it takes to tear the device down to get to the capacitor, prep the board and then do the repair, as well as putting it all back together, and then a little extra to cover for potential future problems that could arise shortly afterward as the last tech to touch the device now "owns" the device because anything that goes wrong shortly afterwards is going to be considered by the customer to be their responsibility and their fault. The cost also goes down if you have a load of them to do all at once, but having to do the fix individually without a line of them to fix makes the individual units slower to fix. If you have two units, you do everything individually, if you have twenty or thirty at a time, you can almost assembly line them, by yourself, which makes the individual time go down.
2026-08-08 01:13:08
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Stickup :
That’s how engine swaps are it cost about the same if not more than rebuilding a car engine now. Machine shop costs and labor.
2026-08-07 23:47:58
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gar.mc :
I don't think it's weird. I think it is an inevitability with capitalism.
2026-08-07 23:19:29
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