• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    13 小时前

    Agreed. I’ve saved so much money by RTFM. As a father of three kids, every dollar saved means a better life for my family.

    Car broken? RTFM, bought an ODBII scanner, and fixed it.

    Need air conditioning? RTFM and installed my own heat pumps in my house, saving $7000 in labor and markup.

    House has an old 60 amp fuse panel? Paid an electrician for the service upgrade, read the NEC, wired and installed all branch circuits and sub panels myself. Passed inspection. Saved $7500.

    When you take the time to learn something, you not only get the satisfaction of using your own hands to accomplish something, but you also get to save money.

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      12 小时前

      This goes for life as well. Education? RTFM, studying is a skill and it can be done well as well as ineffectively. There’s many methods nowadays on how to study efficiently, as opposed to cramming knowledge into your short term memory through brute forced memorization (not that all knowledge from school is necessary to be kept).