Basically, I was just wondering if anyone knows how many solder points are necessary for the Wiikey chip. As far as I know there haven't been any install diagrams, and the design of the chip and the wording of the original post made it seem like BOTH the solder pads and the quick soldering section is necessary. Has this been either confirmed or denied yet?
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Here's the best I can do. This image is NOT official as far as I know, and may not in fact be the real product. It is showing up on a website that seems to have leaked images early and they will be a reseller apparently.
Notice that the larger quicksolder points seems to be in the same configuration as the power/ground points on the drive. To me this makes me think it is a drive chip. I see potentially two more quicksolder points, although there could be as many as 4 more quicksolder points. I can't completely reconcile the picture above with this mock-up which we're all familiar with:
In either case, the other quicksolder points don't seem to conform to the serial ports on the DVD drive, so my guess is that this is NOT a drive hack like the Wiinja or Cyclowiz.
It does seem that 4 wires are necessary. Someone said that maybe the wires are to be run to the mainboard while the chip itself resides on the drive. That would certainly open the console up to things like (J) and (U) playing on the same console. They could all just go to the drive. I know I would find it to be a pain in the ass to have to get all the way to the mainboard and even feed wires to it from the drive board, probably running parallel to the drive cable that resembles an IDE cable.
This is all conjecture, but maybe I've turned some proverbial light bulbs on.
Notice that the larger quicksolder points seems to be in the same configuration as the power/ground points on the drive. To me this makes me think it is a drive chip. I see potentially two more quicksolder points, although there could be as many as 4 more quicksolder points. I can't completely reconcile the picture above with this mock-up which we're all familiar with:
In either case, the other quicksolder points don't seem to conform to the serial ports on the DVD drive, so my guess is that this is NOT a drive hack like the Wiinja or Cyclowiz.
It does seem that 4 wires are necessary. Someone said that maybe the wires are to be run to the mainboard while the chip itself resides on the drive. That would certainly open the console up to things like (J) and (U) playing on the same console. They could all just go to the drive. I know I would find it to be a pain in the ass to have to get all the way to the mainboard and even feed wires to it from the drive board, probably running parallel to the drive cable that resembles an IDE cable.
This is all conjecture, but maybe I've turned some proverbial light bulbs on.
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I think we should outlaw healthcare entirely because the fact that people can get healthcare today is unfair to those in the past that couldn't+2 -
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Although I still don't agree, medical debt is rarely a choice, whereas enrolling in university is certainly a choice
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College costs, college loans, book prices, the entire thing is predatory, oft touted as essential to a successful life for my generation and the ones since, and completely unaffordable without putting you through an insane financial hardship for literal decades in many situations.+1
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Many of the same issues can be seen for the insanely predatory healthcare and health insurance system in the US+1
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It's important for society to be healthy and educated. If those things can't happen because all of the institutions that prop up those industries make it unattainable for all but a small portion of society, then your society is largely going to be disease ridden, dying, and uneducated in very short order.
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Issue is it's too rich of a coperation already with bad sugar diets causing diabetes and killing teeth a new set of teeth around 90k -
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I agree it's not easy for the average American, let alone the ones below that average. Free / cheaper healthcare is much more important I think than free university education.+1
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If it's needed to keep you healthy it shouldn't cost you $90k. The fact that it does is an enormous problem
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And if the concern is that "well we can't trust the government to intervene for this because the government can't do anything right and wastes tons of money" then holy shit push for a better government. I'm certainly trying to. Don't throw your hands up and go "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"
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@K3Nv2 that's crazily expensive. how long will that take to pay off?
Although diet is largely education, people don't need to go to university to learn what's healthy and what's not,
it's the whole country, big corporations and advertising that is to blame for leading most of the population to believe that poptarts and froot loops are healthy to feed a child
