There’s owners manuals and there’s repair manuals.
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cley_faye@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sometime, you grab the manual of some old piece of junk, there’s all the electronic schematics, parts list, all adjustable things that should never face end user, etc. described in it.
Now, it’s just “push button. if led not go vroom vroom, call support”.
dx1@lemmy.world 2 days ago
cley_faye@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They where the same thing. That’s the point.
catch22@programming.dev 3 days ago
Think of how incredible it would be if you could go on line and get manuals to fix any part of anything you own from a PS5 to a Refrigerator, to a Rivan Truck including all the protocols, chip sets, ect… Or just explore them to see how things work, I’m sure a lot of great inventions and ideas came about from people tinkering with and exploring manuals like these. Anymore these are considered “top secret” and you have to reverse engineer anything to figure out how it works. I think this speaks more to the fact that the things you “buy” these days aren’t really considered yours. You are borrowing the IP to use for a fee and if it breaks, tough shit.
SoftTeeth@lemmy.world 3 days ago
www.ifixit.com/Guide
This is an established cool community ran resource for all kinds of schematics, repairs, and breakdowns of all kinds of devices for manufacturers that suck at telling you how to fix their stuff.
catch22@programming.dev 1 day ago
Ah cool, I have used them in the past for laptops and my switch, but I didn’t realize they also cover appliances and a bunch of other categories.
nomous@lemmy.world 2 days ago
As someone who repaired laptops for many years, ifixit is awesome and was the first stop for every laptop we got.