{"id":152,"date":"2009-06-19T00:04:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T06:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2009-06-19T00:25:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T06:25:05","slug":"dont-be-afraid-to-break-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/dont-be-afraid-to-break-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t be afraid to break it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/9599059_75eb70edf3_m.jpg\" alt=\"Broken Computer\" title=\"Broken Computer\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-153\" \/>Back in high school, one of the nicest compliments I ever got was from our system administrator. He said I was one of the best hardware guys at the school because I was somewhat cautious with the computers I fixed. At first it sounded like a weird compliment &#8211; there were certainly other people who knew their way around the inside of the computer better than I did, and I certainly wasn&#8217;t always cautious; I broke a few computers around school during that computer repair class, even if I did fix most of them again in the end. I think he meant that I was relatively cautious &#8211; I think I fell at a happy medium between so timid I would be afraid to even open the computer and another point at which opening a computer was so routine that being cautious was an afterthought. <\/p>\n<p>I think I find myself at that medium still today. I still really enjoy building computers, but I don&#8217;t want to overclock my system because I&#8217;m pretty much required to keep the computer in working order for a long, long time. I&#8217;m adventurous enough to run Linux 90% of the time at home, but I&#8217;m not going to compile all my own software from source. I guess a better motto would be &#8220;don&#8217;t be afraid to break it any more than what you can fix&#8221;. No, that doesn&#8217;t sound quite right either. Here it is: &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid to break it any more than what you&#8217;re motivated to fix.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in high school, one of the nicest compliments I ever got was from our system administrator. He said I was one of the best hardware guys at the school because I was somewhat cautious with the computers I fixed. At first it sounded like a weird compliment &#8211; there were certainly other people who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}