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That doesnt solve stuff. I had to desolder the SOIC8 chip in an X220 because my programmer didnt like the power draw of the remaining attached circuitry that consumed additional power. I also upgraded OpenWrt Routers by soldering bigger RAM and bigger flash chips in the past

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> I also upgraded OpenWrt Routers by soldering bigger RAM and bigger flash chips in the past

Sadly this is harder than it used to be because with devicetree the flash size is hardcoded, where before it was auto-detected (so previously you could swap the flash and continue to use stock firmware, not you need to compile custom firmware).

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