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What's the dumbest thing you've done to fix a tech issue? (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Coworker's story: Trying to fix a prototype in a hotel room at a European trade show. Soldering iron on hand, but it was a 120V iron and glowed white hot when plugged into a 240V outlet.

So they had one person solder and the other person keep unplugging and replugging the iron from the wall at roughly 50% duty cycle.