Obsolete Skills

[jeffnc]

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Basic computer repair: It wasn't that many years ago that you could open up a knackered computer and see a burnt out track on the circuit board. This could then be bridged with a bit of copper wire and some nifty soldering... God help anybody who tries to do that on a modern motherboard!


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There was a "leaky capacitor" problem on computer motherboards some years back, caused by an unscrupulous electronics company in Japan or Taiwan. It was a controversy right out of "Disclosure". Anyway, long story short, I replaced the capacitors on my motherboard myself. And my computer still worked!

[Rococo]

Unlocking a car door with a coat hanger is a lost art. This used to be standard practice when you locked your keys in your car.

You also used to be able to pick crappy interior door locks (e.g. the ones with a button lock on the doorknob) with a coat hanger.

[Elevens]

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Unlocking a car door with a coat hanger is a lost art. This used to be standard practice when you locked your keys in your car.

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How is this a lost art? You can still do this. Hell, with some cars, you don't even need a coat hanger, just the car's antenna.

[Rococo]

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Unlocking a car door with a coat hanger is a lost art. This used to be standard practice when you locked your keys in your car.

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How is this a lost art? You can still do this. Hell, with some cars, you don't even need a coat hanger, just the car's antenna.

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The number of cars that you can open in this way is decreasing every day. That was the point. I know that some of them are on the road.

[HajiShirazu]

Has anyone said balancing a checkbook?

[ematz]

Not really a skill...but knowing the difference between "can" and "may". My guess is that "may" will fall out of usage completely in another generation or so.

[Jcrew]

In a few years pharmacists should be rarer. Do not see what a pharmacist can do that a machine with access to a prohibitive concomitant use drug database can't.

[Ray Zee]

hammering a nail.

throwing rocks at things and being able tyo hit them

shooting a recurve bow

using dynamite

butchering your own meat

repairing your car

guessing the coming weather by feel and sight

using a sextant

using a slide rule

surviving in the wild off of food you find

making a fire without matches

spinning and weaving your own clothes

[99killed]

eavesdropping on the other land line in your house by barely lifting the receiver. is that creepy?

[jeffnc]

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throwing rocks at things and being able tyo hit them

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Yeah.