You're a coward if you still have feeling in your finger tips

You can tell by the charred parts underneath her fingers.

I have very little soldering experience, but every once in a while at work I have to use a soldering iron to install heat-set threaded inserts into 3d prints.

The little machine that controls the soldering iron only has a power button and knob, and no indication that it is heating up or hot or even working. Each time I use it I convince myself that it isn’t on and have to test it. And each time I briefly consider using my hand. It’s always super hot.

not true when i got it out of the drawer the whole thing was cold

If you smell burnt chicken, you're holding it wrong!

She has on safety glasses, that means nothing bad can happen.

idk smells good. where am I?

It's like the image of the Japanese girls playing a console and nothing's plugged in, it's never not going to be the original meme 🤣

Dinna fash yersel. I kent fit yi meant. Ah didna quite weet my briogs bit I did snort oot ma naise!

Jobbies.

Big jobbies, the lot of them.

It's a picture of a woman doing something wrong.

That's like catnip to lemmites

Fuckin' whooshed over the lot of them.

A lot of these are actually good examples of the difference between a hobbiest or a professional. If she just held it correctly and you told me there was a bit of solder somewhere we can't see, I could very easily believe this was a real photo of a hobbyist.

Most of what you listed are luxuries and conveniences. The one exception is the fume hood, which is a safety concern, but I would say that's overkill for any hobbyist and maybe even a lot of professionals. A small fan and a reasonably vented/sized room is fine. Heck, I only bother grabbing my fan if I know i'm going to be doing more than ~15 minutes of soldering.

Southbridge? Apparently, some chipset(s) from the late noughties had problems with it overheating. Only other thing I can think of is onboard graphics, but I think that's unlikely.

Computing.

I mean I turned my hobby of math and engineering into a major worthwhile pursuing.

I still don't hate it yet.

Right next to the lab safety stuff.

Also, if you hold a soldering iron like that, you're going to have a bad time.

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