Robin Frousheger

@futzle when i was a young human, our family used to go camping at the Bunya mountains around easter time. you’d hear the cones falling all over the forest day and night. for a while, people were permitted to take some of the seeds and roast them in campfires, but then folk got greedy and took whole cones leaving nothing for the critters, nothing to sprout and regenerate the forest, etc

@Unixbigot@aus.social that’s what i was taught 35 years ago, along with putting little loop-de-loops on through-hole components (when possible, resistors, diodes, etc) for g-force/shock absorption. then we finished training and mostly made multi-pin v.35 cables that required soldering anyway, and never repaired the boards we had but got whole replacements from the manufacturer.