Not sure I understand how a SWMBO would be any different in this case, to being alone ? To you mean you talk to her about all the details of your TE repairs ? And she gives you technical advice ?!
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That's one helpful SWMBO, indeed... but somehow I doubt this is the norm...
I do talk to myself when repairing stuff, that's called thinking !
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Sometimes, well usually, before posting on the forum to ask for help, I first do a dry run. I picture myself posting my question, then I imagine what the response would be : "Do we really need to hold your hand you lazy bastard ? Have you checked this ? And that ? What happens if you do this and that ?! " .
So, I do all the things I imagine I would be told to do, it gets me further, and if that doesn't fix it and I am still stuck, and really run out of ideas... then only I would post, because I genuinely would have tried absolutely everything I could think of.
But because TEA is what it is, unlike a dedicated repair thread for a specific piece of TE... well I do admit I do use it to air my thoughts, because I can't possibly be told off for it, given that it's at least 1090% about electronics, which can't be said of 90% of the traffic here.
I guess I use my repair problems as a source and excuse for spamming this thread about electronics, to try to counter act thse who spam it with completely irrelevant stuff. I guess it's a way to resist the OT spamming, my way to fight back. But that would be half unconscious.. we are entering psychiatric territory here...