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Had a chat with my kid's teacher that flipped my view on 'broken' stuff
Honestly, I was fixing a busted tablet for her classroom and she asked if she could watch. She said, 'Seeing you work makes me think we throw away too many stories.' Tbh, that hit different because I've been pushing for faster repairs to keep up with volume. Ngl, I've tossed a few things that could've been saved just to clear the bench. Now I'm looking at a pile of 'for parts' boards from last month differently. Has anyone else had a moment that made you slow down and really look at a repair?
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olivia5548d ago
See, I've always had the opposite take. Sometimes a broken tablet is just a broken tablet (you know, a lost cause). The time and parts you spend trying to save one story could fix two others that have a real shot. My bench stays clear because I make those calls fast, and honestly, I think that helps more kids in the long run.
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colesanchez8d ago
My bench looked like a tablet graveyard last week, three of them with the same cracked screen. I was about to scrap the lot for parts, but then I noticed one had a perfectly good battery. Swapped it into another one with a good screen but a dead cell. Felt like a weird tech Frankenstein, but it booted right up. Olivia's got a point about time, but that one felt good to save.
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