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Those leftover solder “blobs” are quite usual on raspberry. Better than pure chinesium quality though.
The small marks are just on the PCB’s clearcoat and will not matter electronically.
Just test it out. You can boot from USB without a sd card with PI4 ;)
Can I/Should I just scrape off the leftover blobs?
I didn't know I could boot from USB, thats cool. If It's booting to bootloader it's probably fine though right? I'm replacing an existing 2GB anyway so I'll see soon enough.
I would scrape them off without using much force. Otherwise they can come loose on a worst time possible and maybe short circuit some pins when the board is powered. Probably will never happen if the raspberry is statically mounted sonewhere, but you never know
There where some bits I didn't see before and I scratched the PCB a bit, does this look good?
EDIT: my phone did some weird things to the photo lol