I honestly consider them to be a consumable.

The ones I’ve used always get splashes of solder, flux and other uncleanable things onto them at some point. If it gets too much, I’ll switch to a new one.

That’s actually a great video, no-ideal opamp characteristics have caused me a lot of headaches on multiple occasions in the past.

Pretty much. I’m not even sure if regular USB ports can talk to pins individually, let alone test them for shorts.

Interesting, I just uploaded the .mp4 directly to lemmy and assumed this to be working. How else would you share a gif/short video?