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by bombcar 1329 days ago
Fully understand and “completely able/worth my time to fix” are not identical. I can understand how an alternator works and still throw it away when it dies rather than rebuild it.
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In that case, what is the value proposition of investing the time to learn how an alternator works? It surely has some value, but is it worth the time it takes to know it?

To bring it back to our topic, is it worth it to know, on an electrical level, what your motherboard and CPU is doing? It surely has some value, but is it worth the time to learn it?