It can't be just me that twitches and is developing a nervous tic watching some of the soldering in repair, build or refurb videos on youtube surely?
If you care about the broader implications of such videos... i reckon only people interested in the subject will watch them, and as such are usually not your concern, as they will try to improve their skills to meet the minimum criteria a job asks for - from an educational point of view. It is the ones that are not interested at all you need to be concerned of.
It spreads bad soldering habits. It does not take that much time and effort to learn soldering properly. Yet most of the people, many of them professionals with ton of experience, do completely shit soldering job.
their customers might be happy to have the device working again at a certain price, the rest is their liability.
Also when you mention that their soldering skills are crap, you get treated by others as if you are telling blasphemy. I once made a comment on this forum about Louis Rossmann soldering skills after he was mentioned by another member as example to learn from. Basically I told you could learn to repair but for soldering look somewhere else. It resulted in shitfest .
Wow look at how good he is. He's an electronics god!
He can't solder though and his programming is very amateurish, with all of the spaghetti code in his previous project.
How darz u troll my favs YouTube star!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, some of his videos are really good, like the one where he explained Ohm's law: an excellent resource for beginners to circuit theory. It's just his soldering is shit.
Shut da fuck up, cunt!
OK whatever, sorry to burst your bubble, go back to your safe space and live in ignorance.
Also when you mention that their soldering skills are crap, you get treated by others as if you are telling blasphemy. I once made a comment on this forum about Louis Rossmann soldering skills after he was mentioned by another member as example to learn from. Basically I told you could learn to repair but for soldering look somewhere else. It resulted in shitfest .
Sometimes it’s an personality cult problem. I actually had some shit on here from Rossman directly for criticising a repair rationale and approach. How dare I threaten his revenue stream with logic
Also when you mention that their soldering skills are crap, you get treated by others as if you are telling blasphemy. I once made a comment on this forum about Louis Rossmann soldering skills after he was mentioned by another member as example to learn from. Basically I told you could learn to repair but for soldering look somewhere else. It resulted in shitfest .
which is old since it seems to me Louis himself jokes about his soldering skills
The bizarre US pronunciation of soldering as soddering makes my brain hurt. I mean, that L is most definitely there...
You don’t hod something, you hold it. You didn’t sod something when you sold it. So why do you sodder with solder.
You don’t hod something, you hold it. You didn’t sod something when you sold it. So why do you sodder with solder.
It's strange how English has changed as it's spread around the world. I wonder when the l sound got dropped from solder?
The Australians clearly pronounce the l but do the Canadians say it the US way?
because 99.999% of the time, their attacks are based purely on disdain for USA
look at: https://www.google.com/search?q=solder+etymology&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
The word solder comes to English from the French word soudure, with no L. As is usually the case where British and American English differ, American English tends to retain the older form.
Anyhow, the people still trying to lord their supposed superiority over Americans because of this can take our silent L’s and shove them where the sun don’t shine.
Or are you going to argue that L’s cannot be silent (or any other sound but L), in which case you’ll have to amend your pronunciations of walk, talk, colonel, etc??You don’t hod something, you hold it. You didn’t sod something when you sold it. So why do you sodder with solder.Have you listened to British English?!? Many, many, many British dialects (like Cockney, and a few American ones, like NYC) have the L vocalization shift, where the L becomes a vowel or semivowel. (Like “hold”->”howd”, rhyming roughly with “rowed”.)
P.S. guys, don’t try to argue with me on this. I’ve vowed to take NO shit about American English from snooty Brits (or Aussies or Kiwis or anyone else who tries to condescend on this topic), because 99.999% of the time, their attacks are based purely on disdain for USA, not on any kind of linguistic accuracy. (Did I mention I studied linguistics?) I’ve had these arguments with linguistically uninformed non-Americans too many times, and I won’t stand for them.
Don't get me started on language snobbery. Some Brits think they own English, when in reality no one does. It may be one of the most widely used languages, but as soon as it left old Blighty it changed and morphed on its travels so something else.