...isn't with my idea of what a fully competent person(*) should be capable of -- I still maintain that one should know how to fix simple mechanical things -- but that far too few mechanical things are simple any more... :-(

What's worse, most of the time shit is quite *unnecessarily* complex; over-complex just for the sake of it. :-( :-(

Or, worst of all, it's built complex because that makes it possible to make it out of cheap plastic in stead of solid metal, saving the manufacturer 2 cents a piece... At the cost of any quality! :-( :-( :-(



(*): My earlier choice of words may not have been entirely succesful: *I* most certainly am a "fully rounded individual" -- but that's more in the direct physical sense of "rounded"... ;^>