Hardware
A community for news and discussion about the hardware side of technology. Questions and support posts are also welcome, so long as they are relevant to hardware and interesting technologies therein.
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Title and associated content has to be in English.
2. Use original link
Post URL should be the original link to the article (even if paywalled) and archived copies left in the body. It allows avoiding duplicate posts when cross-posting.
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Hardware support should be encouraged? Or just people posting their hardware?
Yeah, the support part I think.
For just people posting their Hardware, there would be more suitable spaces like !diyelectronics and PC hardware specific channels, depending upon their variety.
But my intention is that, if someone comes with some broken thing and instead of asking for support, wants to actually discuss underlying causes and the science behind it, that is a kind of post I would like to see here.
For just normal, consumer-hardware support queries, maybe another Community will pop-up
e.g. I have pictures of a smartphone with a P-OLED display, with the inner liquid crystals kinda liquefied, making the screen unusable. And the user stating no physical damage. It would be nice to see some discussion on causes for that.
And now that I recalled this, I think I'll post it here.