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The point is you can do it yourself, you don't need anyone else's guarantee.
by Retr0id 3mo ago
The point is you can do it yourself, you don't need anyone else's guarantee.
- GauntletWizard 3mo agoIf the untrained "you"'s failure rate is above about 25% with the failure result being a merely inoperable but repairable card, it's not an acceptable outcome for most people, who quite reasonably see it as an unacceptable risk. In practice, it's more like a 75-90% failure rate if you're unfamiliar with ball-soldering techniques, which most are since it's been considered impractical to do soldering in the US since the through-hole days, and so there's not a professional tradesman class to teach kids. What does exist of soldering is stuck in the far past from an electronics manufacturing perspective. Tl;dr: https://xkcd.com/2501/ https://xkcd.com/2501/