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just beat it (lemmynsfw.com)

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[–] FistingEnthusiast 49 points 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week 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.

[–] FistingEnthusiast 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"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

[–] FistingEnthusiast 2 points 4 days ago

Intermittent faults are the absolute worst

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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.