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What is the skill/talent you have that you get praised for but you fiercely keep as an hobby/interest with no plans to expand on it? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 11 months ago by qyron@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Saigonauticon@voltage.vn 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Electronics repair and manufacture. I do this sometimes professionally -- however my special talent is doing it with none of the right tools or parts. It's mostly hilarious and not useful at work, where I need to use the right parts so you can scale to manufacture.

I once fixed a DVD drive using a gas stove. A graphics card with a tube of toothpaste and some rubber bands. A Macbook with half a cardboard box. Today I built a microphone amplifier from a broken Android development board, a IC from a particle detector, and surface-mount resistors and capacitors from a dozen different things. I could probably work as an engineer in Kerbal Space Program :D

[–] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would watch the shit out of this YouTube channel.

[–] Saigonauticon@voltage.vn 2 points 11 months ago

Sadly, my irritation with YouTube is fathomless and eternal :P

I can clue you in the the first case though -- A faulty motor was unable to eject the drive, and a magnet held it in place. So I used the Curie effect to weaken the magnet by roasting it for a short time and putting it back in. I was very poor in those days so knowing these things was pretty useful.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is your name Gyro Gearloose?

[–] Saigonauticon@voltage.vn 1 points 11 months ago

I did this thing, stretching decades back, where I would publish every project under a different name, then throw away the password.

Even I don't know everything I've done, or all the names I've gone by.