Gotta be real with you all today, #Signet #Saturday isn't going great. I've spent the last hour and a half reseating this CPU, and adding/removing solder, waiting for it to cool and then testing it in my machine and I'm making only tiny amounts of progress.
I know many would say that I am wasting my time; that I should just call this one unit a loss and move on. The problem isn't the sunk cost fallacy, but that I don't want things to go to waste. At some point I will give up, but not yet…
Not wanting things to go to waste is basically the sunk cost fallacy. Regardless, I hope you push through to victory.
Victory is mine! I put a few drops of rosin flux on the board and the CPU snapped right into place, just like it should.
I've now added this to the list of things to check when a board doesn't work on the first try.
Had I given up, not only would this board have been wasted, but future boards would take longer to rework. This is why I don't give up easily. Unless the CPU is actually damaged, it should be able to be fixed!
#electronics #OpenSource #hardware #repair #decentralization
