The Raspberry Pi shortage has been a meme in ... having successfully upgraded the RAM chip on the Pi 4 from 1 GB to 8 GB with help of a hot air gun. These chips are BGA, and those might feel ...

will find the extra RAM very helpful. Those using demanding operating systems like Ubuntu on their Raspberry Pi will notice better performance with the added memory, especially on desktops.

The fragility of SD cards is the weak link in the Raspberry Pi ecosystem. Most of us seem to ... that sets up a mount point for logging in RAM rather than on the SD card. The idea is that any ...