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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

soldering was an expected norm of PC building

There has never been an IBM PC-compatible that expected soldering of its user in order to function. Maybe if you wanted to upgrade the RAM on your motherboard prior to inline memory modules, but that's hardly an end-user task, you'd take it to a technician to do that.