My favorite example of this sort of nonsense was an advertising image I saw when I was looking for a digital microscope. Had some very tiny wires to solder and wanted to get a feel for prices.
Behold:
Just listening to the AC DC via soldering iron. Tbh when IA art becomes super believable this is what IA art is gonna look like.
The stethoscope!! 2real4me
And then there is this classic
After working in IT since 1999, I can count on my dads lefthand fingers the times I’ve had to solder a graphics card.
PS: My dad lost his left arm in 1996
I’ve done it twice actually… But I come from an embedded engineering background.
Replaced some dead caps on an expensive GPU once and the other time it was a laptop where some of the GPU memory had broken(? IDK really how it happened, it was my boss’s personal machine, so few questions were asked) the connections.
In the latter case we desoldered all the tantalum caps and put the motherboard in our reflow oven. Then resoldered the tantalums. The fear being that tantalums wouldn’t survive the oven we used for prototypes in the RD department I was in at the time (I count this as IT, as the admin was also an RD developer).
Both times it worked.
With that said, I don’t think that I’ve even seen a soldering station in an IT department since the mid 00s.
Yeah, but did you solder it midair like this boss?
Nope, threw it in the air and soldered it without ANY support before it hit the table - old western gunman style!
Smh, there’s a whole genre in electronics humor about stock photos. At least this model didn’t hold on to the hot end of the iron.
My only question is if they are aiming to make their photos accurate and just have no idea or if they are deliberately going for believable to non-tech people but ridiculous to anyone who knows something about what’s going on.
If you’ve never run a computer with a PSU hanging out the side powering your extra hard drives have you even lived?
Hell, I once ran a PC regularly with parts strewn all over my desk.
I’ve used an extra PSU to power a graphics card. Things weren’t properly compatible, so I had to improvise a bit.
When you start the computer, you also need to use a paper clip to start the second PSU, because otherwise the graphics card will scream in terror until you give it the power it demands. It was probably the most ghetto style computer I’ve ever had.
When I worked at a computer shop if I thought a power supply was iffy I would plug my backup in outside of the case just like that. Was great for diagnosis.
I would also solder some laptops, dc jacks mostly. But not like that.
