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It continues to amaze me how indestructible SDCards are.
It continues to amaze me how indestructible SDCards are. Until they're sold as supplemental hard drives ( cough Transcend Jetdrive cough ). Then they'll fail if you even look at them strangely.
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> Why isn't a cellphone filled with epoxy? Added cost and weight are two things that would put off consumers. The phone would also be neigh irreparable, but consumers don't seem to care for that other than replacing their screen.
A conformal coating wouldn't give much more weight.
is this a common setup to have the camera store to external storage device without storing to the SD card as well?
Yes because external storage is much larger, and theres nothing more annoying than being in the middle of doing some science with 30 other bits of complex equipment, and then the camera stops working with storage full errors and youre 7000m underwater in a cramped sub trying to navigate a camera UI to find the setting. Configure your systems so they are in the configuration that is less likely to cause random disrupt…
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It's a solid piece of silicon encased in epoxy, so there's nothing really to get crushed. Contrast this to something like a cellphone that's made of hundreds of separate parts and has void space that will get crushed.
Why isn't a cellphone filled with epoxy?
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It also amazes me how incredibly unbrowseable tomshardware is now with all the ads and pop-ups.
It also amazes me that people are using the internet w/o an adblocker in the year 2025
the horror.
paying thousands of dollars just to be forbidden to block ads.
also basically if enough companies agrees on helping the cause your crypto secrets are quite more likely to be exposed...
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A conformal coating wouldn't give much more weight.
A conformal coating isn't "filled with epoxy", which is the concern I was answering.
Anyway, I wasn't disagreeing, just reasoning a bit further.