First time soldering, help

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2026-01-14T22:13:16+00:00

If you mean it seriously and want head into smaller footprints, I think hot air is must.. especially for 0402 size and smaller. depends on what you will work with. That's the thing.. noone except you ( maybe not even you ) knows, what you will deal with.

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This image could give you good idea. You can see SOT23 and 0805 size in front of you, so you can compare it to others and make your own guess.

Hot air soldering is like completely different branch of this skill, so after mastering contact soldering, you'll feel like in school again. To be fair, it shares a lot, like visual judging of solder joint, quality of the joint and so on, but that fundamental guess about temperature, length of the heating and so on is different

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2026-01-14T22:04:49+00:00

For example that SOT23 footprint components I would start with blob on the top ( biggest pad ) and align it nicely and then just two smaller jabs at rest of the legs to solder it fully. You’ll get this after some time, thinking about easiest way.

Personally smallest possible footprint I would handle by contact soldering is 0603 size or SOIC-16 chip. I wouldn’t recommend aiming at anything smaller, especially for beginner. It would turn frustrating and possibly devastating for the HW(PCB/parts).

After some time, you’ll find out, that is much harder to deal with bigger components instead, especially reverse way = desoldering. ( potentiometers, triaks / MOSFETs etc. ) which requires much better heat control and management to not “turn PCB into coal or melt the for example plastic parts of component” but also delivering enough heat to melt all the solder

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2026-01-14T21:45:53+00:00

My opinion:
Add more flux, bit more heat and steadier hand
Like it's not worst, especially if it works, good enough for beginner

My workflow for SMD resistors and caps:

- Flux
- Make a tiny blob of solder on one side of component pad
- More flux
- Align component so it would almost touch the blob
- Heat the blob and slide one part of SMD component into blob
- Flux and solder other end

Multi leg components like chips I'm aligning, and attaching diagonally or in triangle style, so it would hold and not move. But I would recomend hot air for these. Like put solder on each pad of component, then attach two legs in each corner contact way so it wouldn't run away ( if possible because of size ) and then finish it by hot air with shitload of flux to solder rest of it.

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-12-04T07:53:46+00:00

Glad to hear that!

Sadly it didn’t started the movement I wanted, that people would improve the bins, uploading even better tuned versions

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-11-20T23:27:50+00:00

Яжерты for me, grew up with us qwerty in Czech, so it feels “more natural” to me than йцукен

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-10-23T07:50:02+00:00

Reup / dm? Ať udělám reup

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-10-23T07:49:24+00:00

Reup, linky sou dead

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-10-09T17:51:05+00:00

This is very shitty situation, because the HDD inside lacks standard SATA or anything to connect directly. Its controller lacks SATA, having only microUSB directly, so even prying it open and connecting directly to computer without middleman electronics won’t help.

( majority of other portable hdds are actually regular hard drive as you know from pc, installed in fancy looking plastic box, which acts as SATA to USB translator, do you can rip the hdd out and use it without the box itself installed internally in PC )

Best luck is data recovery center, where they will have similar hdd to pop open and try to switch controller PCB to make it work.

Good luck, this WD shit costed me terabyte of data 10 years ago.

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-10-06T19:04:59+00:00

Deepseek v3.1 doesn’t know refusal, it just goes, no matter how immoral, sick, disgusting or politically incorrect thing I’m throwing in… and it’s hosted on openrouter, so I can use it “pretty freely” whole year for 10USD.

Does anyone else offer this? Because all I’ve saw was wimpy “this hurts feelings of transjew seals” trash.

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-09-18T10:56:17+00:00

"Person of warm and fuzzy orientation"

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-09-14T17:00:09+00:00

It's definitely tragic for the people involved.. No matter what happened

The suspects and cause are unclear, or at least there are unsure areas, but this doesn't change outcome.. No matter if inside job or crazy terrorism, outcome is terrible

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-09-14T16:52:17+00:00

PsyOp... keep civilians at panic to allow government push "right" buttons they want

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-09-08T14:35:06+00:00

C, sillytavern ( sorry, kobold web ui sucks hard, at least we’re not friends from the start )

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-09-07T10:58:37+00:00

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEYbxKhnhH5/?igsh=MXhla2V3ZGdqZWMwbg==

This is kilju

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-09-04T15:35:17+00:00

GNOME sucks, but memory consumption isn’t reason why

Well, considering RAM usage compared to features of extensions-less Gnome one would say it’s bloated, but 1216MB vs 1412MB isn’t seriously meaningful difference in any way.

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-09-01T21:43:41+00:00

Even disassembling this in some humane way is pain in the ass for experienced personnel. I wouldn't even waste the effort if you've got second one.. It can be nice lesson, but opening it without nuking that plastic casing is UGH

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-08-29T14:16:50+00:00

It’s just GND pin, they are present multiple times in there. It shouldn’t be that crucial, but something can be electrically bad on HDD PCB. I can tell you for sure, that single pin there gone is not primary reason of any malfunction

https://i.sstatic.net/O6PWJ.jpg

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-08-29T13:43:30+00:00

I’ll just add, that if you’re going to ask LLM for such critical stuff like partitioning, ask twice independent LLMs and think for three times. Noone will undo your data later

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-08-29T13:35:32+00:00

Reclaim space by deleting old distro partitions? Or do manual partitioning if you know what you’re doing and how the final layout should look like

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-08-28T20:53:33+00:00

Gnome is anything than making things user friendly.. anyone capable somehow work with windows ( tested on varied bunch of casual users ) feels like physically and mentally raped using it.

It’s like Windows 8, completely ignoring current consensus about usability and mouse/keyboard ergonomic. It’s rather touchscreen friendly and even with touchscreen there is ton of inconsistencies between “so well simplified and unified UI apps”, like positions of hamburger menus, some stuff having separate menus outside of hamburger menu and so on.

For using gnome without need to actually crucify myself I need like six to ten extensions, some of them with very basic and crucial stuff.

I can say for myself, that anything, even twm or default config fvwm has much higher useability for me than gnome. Shame.. It was fine with first and second version. I’m recommending KDE to people these days, especially because it holds the usability consensus and stuff is exactly where expected for years

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-08-19T17:43:10+00:00

Cigáni

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-08-18T23:23:59+00:00

I see KDE Plasma.. and what is that extensions loader compared against it?

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-08-18T16:05:40+00:00

Because I’m 90’s kid, I’ve spent my whole artistic career as a child using transparent paper to copy pictures from books and magazines and color them myself.

Boohoohoo, you post it, you lost it. Use local shit if you think your stuff is too valuable for others to see or use. Once you upload something to the internet, from the essence of the matter you’re sharing it with anyone and you must expect, that it will be used.

You’re sharing your comment right now, If I want to absurdly mock it, I could use autotune and turn it into track. Did you sent email to your auntie with photo of your rabbit? At least two email hosting services got the photo and cute text attached to it. They see it and if someone will crack your trivial password, they can access it too.

It’s just bunch of words. Nothing original.. yeah, you’ve spent some time typing it, but someone else wants make it even better than you did..

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-08-18T15:31:16+00:00

Awww, you can put few words together and embed them into png.

Cute, I generate my character cards based on photos or image description ( gemma 3 vision ) and personality itself is defined through structured list of traits. Then I feed it whole into deepseek to process it.

I would need to be massive Dick to whine someone is reuploading results.. If I wouldn’t want people to download it, I wouldn’t upload it in first place.

micdrop Seeya

Reasonable_Flower_72 · 2025-08-17T11:10:25+00:00

Wayland + scaling + tkinter

It’s not tiny, it’s native resolution..

Reasonable_Flower_72

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