It isn't wasted time if you learn something, though, is it? To be fair, as a hobbyist I only ever really experimented as far as I could afford if the hardware b

It isn't wasted time if you learn something, though, is it? To be fair, as a hobbyist I only ever really experimented as far as I could afford if the hardware broke, and anything too experimental I kept the only version of any data off of (that used to be way pricier in time and materiels though, true).