alt Hacker NewsAre we not allowed to speak northwestrepair's name or something?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNjoREOH80Y
He's a beast at BGA replacement, if you want to learn how to handle big chips he's the one to watch. But yeah, liquid metal sure seems to kill a lot of them, though typically just for the prosaic reason of getting somewhere it shouldn't and shorting something out.
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thomasjudge • today at 3:41 PM
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I believe the previous commenter meant Parts-People: https://www.youtube.com/@dellpartspeople
Both seem to regularly face laptops and GPUs respectively that have BGAs shorted out by leaking liquid metal.