• FistingEnthusiast
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      491 month ago

      I was just about to say that

      I worked on something that literally said “to test this thing, hit it here with a screwdriver” because it was known to be a point where a soldered joint would fail

      I used to bash the shit out of some stuff with a hammer to prove my diagnoses. It wasn’t working anyway, so I couldn’t break it more, and I was usually proved correct when I was able to replicate the failure

      • @towerful@programming.dev
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        451 month ago

        The whole “well, it’s already broken: what’s the worst I can do?” is such a liberating position to be in.

        • FistingEnthusiast
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          441 month ago

          I have learnt how to fix a whole lot of things after realising that

          Or, I learnt other things that can go wrong, without consequences

          However, there’s: “it’s not working right” and there’s “it’s not working”… It’s usually important to recognise that difference

          • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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            225 days ago

            “it’s not working right” is conversely a terrible position to be in, you can’t leave it as it is but you also risk fucking it up further by trying to fix it

      • @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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        41 month ago

        Was doing this with my car fob for a while before I finally broke down and re-soldered the battery contact terminal to the board yesterday.

        Also doing it to my cars blower fan for the AC. I have the replacement fan motor, but it hasn’t been annoying enough yet to mess with replacing.