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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing
Date: 24 Jan 2025 19:13:01 GMT
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On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:52:03 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

>    SMD is now sometimes the only way to get chips - and that means
>    careful 'oven' work. Super-pain. Basically PCB development is moving
>    out of the realm of human makers, everything's too tiny.

I was asleep at the switch and bought a couple of Pico without the 
headers. I have the headers but the soldering task showed the limits of my 
vision and manual dexterity these days. 

I've never done anything with surface mount other than look at them. 0.1" 
grids are as much as I want to deal with.