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source: mastodon
date: 2018-09-14 15:44:49.87 +00
title: "Mastodon post from September 14, 2018, 100724892618310925"
post_uri: https://mastodon.social/users/gravely/statuses/100724892618310925
post_id: 100724892618310925
tags:
  - mastodon
descendants:
- 100724986526474155
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Somehow this worked on the first try even though I hated it the entire time. Months of no left channel: canceled. Knowing how to fix stuff is a curse.


![Soldering the right headphone signal to a new headphone jack tip.](./6332805.jpeg)

![Completed assembly with the damned apple connector responsible for the problem in the first place.](./6332806.jpeg)

![Completed masterpiece of slop: Soldering a four wire headphone cable to a new headphone jack tip.](./6332807.jpeg)


Me managing a crisis at work: Calm in the eye of the storm, always three steps ahead, fail often and enjoy learning from failure.

Me doing handiwork: Non-stop stream of curses, always injuring myself, doing it backwards twice first, lost, furious. Oh, hey, it works.