mostly true, but always infuriating when you need a specific resistor value and don't have it. I like having a resistor kit around, but it doesn't need to be a big sorted set of drawers, can be a box of bags from digikey
Ehh, if you're not doing analogue stuff how specific do you really need? And even if you do you can combine a few to get closer to what you need. Like if you have 220/390R & 1k & 10k & 1M on hand, are you really ever going to be that annoyed for breadboarding purposes that you don't have 680R or whatever?
I think that I could go for an entire decade not needing any passives other than powers of ten except for power supply work when you need an exact ratio for feedback.
But analog tinkerers do things that are very different from what I do!
Don’t buy resistors on aliexpress. They tend to be steel legged and go rusty invisibly leading to all sorts of weird problems. Also some of the tend to be mislabelled.
Spend on some decent ones. Tayda sell decent quality Royal Ohm ones for not much money.
