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Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips

258 points · 211 comments · edandersen

  1. kmeisthax · · focus · HN ↗
    I think this is really dumb and stupid. Not that I don't agree with their reasoning - it's actually very reasonable - but that I have a lot of distaste from "saving the customer from themselves" type antifeatures.

    Practically speaking, though, this antifeature doesn't affect most people, because I don't think most people are willing to take a heat gun to a microsoldered part just to save a few bucks on RAM. If the RAM was socketed somehow - which at this scale and performance tier is not possible - then I'd probably be way angrier.

    1. dofm · · focus · HN ↗
      This is more "from successful fraudsters" than "from themselves".
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