• @ch00f@lemmy.world
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    728 days ago

    We ship a $50k instrument product running Windows, and everyone hates it.

    As the only EE on staff, I got to spend a portion of covid soldering TPM chips to motherboards. Fun times.

    • @henfredemars
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      428 days ago

      Wow, that sounds painful. Not so much because it’s technically difficult, but ridiculous that you have to do that.

      • @ch00f@lemmy.world
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        428 days ago

        Yeah, they were tssop, so not hard. It was only necessary because the parts shortage crunch had the vendor shipping them without the chips installed.