just noticing a lot of very principle anti-genocidists very suddenly changing their focus, it is almost as if some pattern can be discerned through ignoring their statements and watching their behavior

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    As someone who as worked with ic chips with that package design, qfp (quad flat package), those things are way harder to swap out than that.

    (sorry about the low resolution, fuckin enshitification. A year ago that image had 4x as many pixels)

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      Just bend the leads over and jam it into a PLCC socket. Problem solved.

      /s just in case

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        When you realize a newly soldered 144 pin qfp was 90 degrees off from the correct orientation.

        FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKK (rtfm, the text may not always be the thing that marks orientation)