XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 18:34:34 -0400, bad sector wrote:   
      
   > On 10/26/24 16:41, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 08:47:01 -0400, bad sector wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> The responsibility for protecting its own falls on sovereign   
   >>> governments so when oriental cheap-labour combined with subsidies   
   >>> allowed them to undercut then western governments should have   
   >>> countered not by subsidising (you cannot cut out a hole) but by   
   >>> completely interdicting those imports.   
   >>   
   >> That’s how things used to be done in the bad old days, when most of the   
   >> “consumer” goods we take for granted were rare and expensive luxuries   
   >> that could be afforded only by the rich. That is, where they existed at   
   >> all.   
   >>   
   >> Do you really want to go back to those days?   
   >   
   > Probably, people were DIY qualified then.   
      
   You want to set up a school where those of a mechanical bent can go to   
   learn how to put together an Iphone from basic raw materials? Master the   
   art of doing surface-mount soldering by hand? Assemble a billion-   
   transistor chip from raw silicon? Join the layers of a phone camera sensor   
   using nothing more than a glue gun and tweezers, perhaps? Test the results   
   with a multimeter that they learn to build by hand as part of the course?   
      
   Inquiring minds would like to know.   
      
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