Electronic heaven

Today I became a little techie. Well not really. But I was gutsy enough to try and open up my own DVD player to extract a stuck DVD. Mind you there was some motivation behind it knowing that I certainly didn't want to pay $22 to Blockbuster just because I couldn't return it in time, so this is an example of how incentives work. Normally I'm too nervous to do anything to electrical equipment. My idea is immediately hand it over to a professional who can say this, that, and the other thing and after a fairly hefty payment on my end, the appliance is (hopefully) fixed. Today I did not fix my DVD player but I felt almost like I could. I had a mini screw driver and a credit card and felt all set.
I've dreamt of knowing more about things that confound me but truth be told, I'm not too interested. I know there are Dummies guide to everything these days and I could just pick up a book and read about it, but I really just don't want to. Carburetor shmarborator. Who cares if the gasket is blown or the mother board is on the fritz? Well actually I do care, but I don't care to know what to do about it. Unfortunately (and this is solely my perspective of the universe) the most conniving and corrupt people run the repair shops for electronics as well as cars. How many of us take the car in for something minor and don't get it back before we've forked out $700. (and isn't it strange how it's always somewhere around that number?). And then if that's not bad enough suddenly 2 months later you hear something else rattling under the hood.
Right now we are dealing with a computer that frequently tells us it won't start because the CPU fan isn't working. Fabulous. we just force start it anyway. I can't take it in because in the past we brought it in for that, among other issues, and guess what? it still is happening despite us having a brand new mother board, a brand new screen, a new CD and DVD and floppy drive and who knows what else! It's unreal. Of course that was all under the warranty. Now that it's expired I'm not even trying to find out how much they'll charge...!
If electronic heaven exists its a place where things fix themselves, grease their own joints and know exactly when to upgrade their software and update their anti virus programs.