Best Of

I would probably go with Bosch. I've heard that Miele is good too but i'd need corroboration on that. I have a bosch that is about 25 years old. I've had to repair or replace the water vavle a couple times and had to install a beefier relay for the heater. Oh and i had to get a slavaged rack because the coating was pretty easily damaged. If I had more space/less stuff i'd probably get a hobart built kitchenaid.

The dystopia we are in is Brazil. I don't seem to recall them finding a solution at the end.

Things with mechanical or electromechanical or electronic or microprocessor controls all fundamentally works the same. If you have to put a lot of effort in to understanding how one manufacturer's system works you don't understand the basics.

I don't think you're going to get many people to sign up for night school while working all day when there are lots of jobs that don't require that. You need to fix that model.

You need to understand math and chemistry and physics but the middle/high shop class curriculum doesn't teach that. You need to figure out how to teach it to the people that don't understand it the way we've been teaching it for 100 years. And you need to find people willing to do it for less than the cost of living.

I'm reading a book now, "Reader, Come Home". The author tells how learning to read rewires our brain in very fundamental ways, and that the modern "digital" world is changing that, again at a fundamental level.

Scary to think that we're raising up kids who, not just don't think like us, but can't.

One of my neighbors is having their kitchen remodeled and adding a half bath - no permit. She said I could come by and take a look at their work now and then to make sure at least the plumbing looked OK and when I did, I saw that there were some issues: copper x male adapters into 100 year old galvanized pipe, 1-1/2" p-traps on showers, leaving original cast iron drains in the wall……I suggested some corrections to the lead guy and they refused to do them and they have banned me from the job; I'm a nosy neighbor. I told the owner that she might have problems in the future and she said, "Just let it go."

To the current topic, many - most? - homeowners really don't know the right way to approach suggestions and work done by the guy that knocks on their door and works on their house. They want to trust them. Do they really need a new boiler or is it just a tripped spill switch. People know how to use computers really well, but not the workings of their house.

used to be the farm kids learned all about keeping basic machinery working. Now John Deere has them locked out of working on their own equipment. Elon with his massive AI push will fix everything, no need to worry.