Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix ...
by joshxyz on Saturday January 23, 2021 @03:59PM
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Haha, on our country we get things like this from japan. It's FUN mixing and matching parts that work. Some are hard to find drivers (LOOKING AT YOU NEC) but a good positive is most parts are durable / quality parts.
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Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix ...
by MayeulC on Saturday January 23, 2021 @04:34PM
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> a good positive is most parts are durable / quality parts
Exactly. Surviving parts are often high quality, due to that process of "natural" selection, and are just in the middle of their bathub curve.
On the other side, you also do get a lot of parts with idiosyncratic or hard to diagnose deficiencies (like, RAM with a few bad bytes that you need to ignore, harddisks with bad sectors (same), CPUs and GPUs that randomly lock up, parts that work only in a certain temperature range, etc).