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by hyperdimension 2001 days ago
> Those are some of the hardest-working chips in a device.

(Mis)quoting Randy Fromm, "the things that work the hardest fail the most."

I've always liked that quote, even though at the time he was referring to CRTs and the color output transistors (well, mostly). It generalizes to most anything electronic.