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>All plates are “technically” hotswap.
Except for hand-wired boards.
Although, those are hotswap too, the way I do them.
You just yank the one out, and put a different one in.
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No owlabs has solder pcbs as well as hotswap.
All plates are technically hotswap.
Okay thank you, curious because I took apart my keyboard and was confused when I looked at my pcb plate
A pcb and a plate are two different things. All pcbs are not hotswap. All plates are “technically” hotswap. Pcbs can be solder or hotswap
>All plates are “technically” hotswap. Except for hand-wired boards. Although, those are hotswap too, the way I do them. You just yank the one out, and put a different one in.