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Q: do you have trouble understanding electronic devices in China?
I've always been able to fix/build/ operate just about anything except electronic devices. I've built my own houses, wiring , plumbing, framing, even built the kitchen cupboards. I've built cars, tons of bikes, done hand rubbed custom paint jobs. I'm great wigth math/ accounting. I find all this stuff is just easy to do, I have no background or training in them. But electronics I can't understand. The last 2 universal controls I bought went in the trash. I can't figure out my new phone. Same with computers. I can read a guide but usually find the pathes listed don't exist on my computer. I found the same thing with my phone. Are you electronically challenged in China?
12 years 14 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
Both my phone and washing machine don't like it when I do anything outside of the norm. Maybe I'm missing a 'save' function somewhere, but buggered if I can work it out.
Only if I can't understand what a certain button is supposed to do, such as my hotwater system... 4 buttons, all with hanzi.. but I think I've got it sorted. Same with my washing machine, but they're pretty much the same world over (especially with little pictures 
)
Ja, Ja, Ja!. I was going crazy with just about every one of the appliances, until 
went on my mind. I got my GF to translate evry single button on them into English, wrote down the meaning and tape it next to each button. Now I can change levels of water on washing machine, use it for the drying cycle (which I had no idea it was a dryer too), and do many more things with the microwave, rice cooker, even with the pressure cooker.
And Ted, when vaccum tubes still existed, repairmen used schematic diagrams and ohm meters to locate damaged part and repair it. But with the advent of electronics and transistors, all they do nowdays is replace whole boards.
at home im much the same as Ted
I can fix just about anything from the car to the toaster
Growing up in a farming area you become self serfishent
but when it comes to Electronics
Thank god for my 18yr old or as I like to call him Tech support
everything goes into English that I need to use.or Im giver a induction on it
