Fun fact: The term was originally strictly based on political alignment, not economic conditions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World

Possibly. Might be marking some isolation or just a stylistic choice by the designer.

My other running theory is that (due to relative proximity to audio chip), they’re muting FETs for muting audio channels when connecting headphones/speakers to prevent speaker pop.

Here’s another idea. In that image, directly below these FETs you can see the little crab logo on the chip. That’s the audio driver. It’s possible these FETs are muting FETS for the analog audio channels. Basically they hold the audio lines down while you connect/disconnect your audio devices to prevent speaker pop.

Like this:

I’ve seen some designs that use two FETs per channel which could explain why there’s so many.

Which part? I mean even if it isn’t generating the frames well, it’s still doing the work. So that capability is there. What’s the grift?

Can you link that note?

I think that’s usually the method in high power applications where heat dissipation is paramount. Each of these diodes is only rated for 210mA of drain current. From a BOM cost perspective, it’d be much cheaper to just buy one 5A FET rather than parallelizing a bunch of 0.21A FETs. That 5A FET would be in a package that could handle whatever heat it generates.

Can someone explain how AI can generate a frame faster than the conventional method?

From the book “Packing for Mars” by Mary Roach:

In a memoir, astronaut Michael Collins relates a story of a physician back in the Apollo era who recommended regular masturbation on long missions, lest astronauts develop prostate infections. The flight surgeon for Collins’s moon mission “decided to ignore that advice,” and ignoring seems to have been the basic approach to the human sex drive ever since. It’s the same way at the Russian space agency. Cosmonaut Alexandr Laveikin told me he too had heard that lengthy abstinence could cause prostate infections, but that the space agency pretends the issue doesn’t exist. “It’s up to yourself how you will deal with it. But everybody is doing it, everybody understands. It’s nothing. My friends ask me, ‘how are you making sex in space?’ I say, ‘By hand!’” As for the logistics: “There are possibilities. And sometimes it happens automatically while you sleep. It’s natural.” John Charles told me he’d heard about the link between prostate health and “self-stim” --at NASA, there’s an abbreviation for everything-- but never heard any formal discussion, pro or con, of orbital masturbation.

Are those near a connector (maybe on the other side?)

Could be a bunch of ESD protection diodes which only come in to play if you wear socks on carpet and touch the connector terminals.

Can you provide the numbers listed on the parts? Usually just 3 numbers/letters.

Also, looking at the circuit traces, does it look like all three terminals are connected? Is one connected to the ground plane? (The copper that covers most of the board surface around the circuit traces).

Edit: looks like they’re 2N7002 MOSFETs

https://www.diodes.com/assets/Datasheets/ds11303.pdf

These act like a digital switch that can use a small voltage to toggle a larger current. Odd to have so many, you normally wouldn’t use a bunch in parallel instead of just a larger FET.

So they look like they’re all connected to the same traces?

Except the American response to this would be to be extra shitty to retail workers since customers were shitty to them during their tour.

Yeah, but raspberry handhelds are chonky at best.

I don’t think Red One deserved the hate it got. I know everyone is getting tired of Marvel and the Rock, but I thought applying a Christmas theme to the tropes was actually refreshing.

Like not a great movie, but way more watchable than the last few Capeshit flicks I’ve seen.

The car had fireworks in the back that caught fire. It being an EV or Tesla had nothing to do with it (except maybe it being hard to put out after the fireworks lit it on fire).

https://electrek.co/2025/01/01/tesla-cybertruck-exploded-in-front-of-trump-hotel/

Still fucking weird.

Is this the guy who just mugs for the camera before showing screenshots of some forum that may actually have your answer?