Re:The boss who put everyone on 70K
by ryandrake on Friday February 28, 2020 @11:31AM
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It makes sense if you can repair it with a few $0.15 capacitors and an hour of your time. I repair my electronics when they fail, and it saves me a lot of money. Somehow, it's become cool just to throw perfectly serviceable stuff in a landfill rather than watch a YouTube video and learn a little soldering.
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Yes, I'm also personally very likely to tear it apart and see if I can replace any failed electrolytics, but that's only applicable to 0.5% of the population or less. I'm doing that as the least hassle way to get a working TV again (less research, less driving, no changing the TV mount, etc).
99.5+% of people are better off economically and time-wise to throw away any out-of-warranty TV undiagnosed and buy new.