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This device does not appear solve any problem, other than poor quality soldering irons made from QC failed components being sold by unscrupulous vendors. Maybe

This device does not appear solve any problem, other than poor quality soldering irons made from QC failed components being sold by unscrupulous vendors. Maybe Pine64 should work on making their site load faster rather than putting BT in a paperweight.

imtringued 6y ago
I'm sure these irons are a thousand times better than those I bought as a kid.
- m0xte 6y ago
  They're really not. They're quite dangerous. I flirted with the "T12" ecosystem for a bit and the designs are marginal to say the least. From a mechanical design perspective it's not uncommon for the mount to short the supply out which will blow the MOSFET in the unit to bits. Secondarily, if the power supply browns out, the devices tend not to fail safe and will quite happily give you a bright orange glowing fire hazard for a tip. Not only that some of the Quicko ones have firmware crash bugs which can trigger a reset while the MOSFET is turned on. Woosh.
taylorfinley 6y ago
Their site has recently switched over to running on a cluster of 24 of their own RockPro64 single board computers. As of their June update (https://www.pine64.org/2020/06/15/june-update-postmarketos-ce-pinephone-shipping-pine64-cluster/ https://www.pine64.org/2020/06/15/june-update-postmarketos-c...) the site, forum, IRC channel and Matrix servers were running on just 8 nodes of the cluster. Given the notorious Hacker News hug-of-death, I think they're doing pretty well!