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Re:The Lifespan of Large Appliances Is Shrinking by dist-epoch on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @05:23AM (#39452124)
There is this person which repairs advanced electronics on youtube - motherboards, video cards, usb sticks, ...

At $70 per hour it doesn't take long for repair to become more expensive than a new item.

Re:The Lifespan of Large Appliances Is Shrinking by zelse on Thursday February 22, 2024 @01:57PM (#39471422)
Northridgefix? Tronicsfix? TheCod3r? (Louis Rossmann, of old?)

There's several of them, but it really depends on the value of the device more than the cost. A lot of what Northridgefix repairs is valuable for the data being recovered more than anything, where the value proposition isn't clear. That said, if someone's paid $2000 for a GPU, I can understand their willingness to pay $300 to get someone to painstakingly microsolder some components back on.