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I rarely met a person who knew more about technology than myself until the advent of smart phones. All of a sudden, I had to start learning from women & children.
I have a separate subscription for my car wifi. I just log onto my satellite tv provider or even Amazon prime video. I prefer to use my tablet for viewing purposes
Sounds a little too Fernandoesque
Should I take that as a compliment.
I wouldn't, but take it anyway you want
I should have known. You never say anything nice.
I started tinkering with electronics at an early age. Probably got some lead poisoning from soldering and desoldering things. You don't know what you don't know, Yoda.
I built a oscilloscope from a b & w tv when I was a freshman in high school. Built my first set of stereo speakers when I was in 8th grade. Was repairing tvs when I was 14. Even had a portable tube tester. My Uncle was a tube designer for RCA in the 60's.
Even though everyone knew I was bound for college my math scores were high enough that they let me take vocational electronics in high school where we repaired TVs because that's where my interest lay at the time. I was into Heathkit in high school and built one of their integrated amps as a freshman and then built a Heathkit dual processor 8085/8088 CPM/MS-DOS computer during my first years in college. During my first semester in college I decided I needed a lab in my apartment and pretty soon I had a nice one with an 20 MHz oscilloscope, function generator, frequency counter, two laboratory grade power supplies, bread boarding equipment and all the various gadgets that go along with that stuff. The nuclear weapons plant here holds auctions periodically where you can go out and purchase their surplus laboratory equipment and that's where I scored a bunch of it. I eventually got tired of moving that stuff around when I got back from overseas and threw it all away in a fit of shortsightedness. That computer would be worth some money now as a collectors item.
That explains a lot.