[ale] Back to new the desktop question

[Alex Carver]

On 2022-12-17 23:39, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> Alex Carver via Ale said on Sat, 17 Dec 2022 12:00:29 -0800
> 
>> A hacky fix is to cut into the 5V USB power line that goes to the card
>> reader and add a switch on the front panel. That lets you keep the
>> card reader turned off (and thus ignored during boot) until you need
>> it then you can flip the switch to "plug it in" while maintaining the
>> benefit of the panel-mounted slots instead of an external reader.
> 
> 1978-1985 I repaired audio equipment for a living. I made or repaired
> twenty to sixty solder joints a day. But I wouldn't solder in a laptop
> unless it was hopelessly broken, too expensive to fix, and I was
> soldering as a Hail Mary to revive it. Today's ultra-thin trace,
> multilayer boards require special equipment and special skills to
> solder with acceptable risk.
> 

We're not talking about a laptop, we're talking about a desktop with a 
drive-bay multi-card reader insert.