[burlesona]

I know what you mean, but at the same time that’s just how tacit knowledge works. How many times have you looked back at software you wrote 4+ years ago. There are lines of code in there that you can’t remember the reason for that look strange or out of place, but you have a vague sense that they do something important. The actual knowledge is gone and the only way to rediscover it is via re-working the problem.

If we stop making ICE cars then a lot of the tech around them will be lost, but chances are we won’t care a whole lot because electric cars will be better for most people in most ways, and ICE cars will live on as a historical curiosity.

[jvanderbot]

I just paid a blacksmith to teach me to forge weld. Someday maybe bored middle-class folks will pay to learn to change oil on a v8 between marathons.

[rasz]

Brazing? like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz9H850dtqY ?

[jvanderbot]

Nope: like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j814AqiKVvE

[rasz]

Ah, so its purely from a historical preservation angle. Is there a point with $80 Amazon stick welders available?

[Bancakes]

That's amazing. Do you have any more such channels, on rebuilding after an apocalypse?

What about books on skillsets necessary?