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[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day 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.