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FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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towerful@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The whole “well, it’s already broken: what’s the worst I can do?” is such a liberating position to be in.

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- FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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
  
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  - Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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
    
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    FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Intermittent faults are the absolute worst
    
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