Recent content by James Mason

Google up " local ewaste recycling" there will probably be some company that will take it off your hands, most likely for free. There are also likely seasonal ewaste events as well so check your local news. You can also check your city/county website as they will probably also have information...

Apple could make a slightly beefier sized laptop to properly support chips of that strength if they wanted to. If you need power like that, and are a Mac user, you probably aren't doing a lot of traveling with your laptop.

I can't give you a great estimate, because Minecraft doesn't have a built in benchmark, because the game doesn't have any consistent gameplay. But you can see how the GPU in that chip performs with other common games here: https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-R2-Stoney-Ridge.182721.0.html...

Depends if it's junk or not. I know they're gonna have alot of stuff I can't use like big household appliances, but they're also supposed to have some Samsung Evo m.2 ssds that I don't need... But kind of sort of want? There's good deals on Amazon products like, so maybe I'll pickup another...

Cooling pads aren't really necessary, just a simple mesh or ventilated laptop stand, so the laptop is off the table/desk/bed and the fans on the bottom can get air works wonders.

The Man in the High Castle on Amazon is pretty good. Netflix has a ton of Korean shows that you can use to expand your horizons. I really like Chef and My Fridge which is a cooking competition using ingredients from the home fridges of Korean celebrities that is just a really fascinating format...

www.whistleout.com Great for BYOD if you wanna switch carriers, and helps you shop for plans for a phone if you're thinking of switching.

Uhh, with basic windows functionality "yes" but I don't think it'll work right because the microphone will pickup the audio from the speakers and just you know, loop i until it's a loud screeching mess, unless you get one of those proper microphones for it that only pick up when they're right in...

it's not so much deleting it, as it is making it private (so only people who know your email address can find it) and not using it for everything. Only family and real friends, not the fake friends or work friends. It's easier to communicate with your actual social group over facebook, but it...

Maybe... see if the BIOS has any "wait for confirmation before booting" option or some way to see display the "POST" info for a longer time.

maybe... a stuck f2/del key? Possibly bad/dying HDD? https://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

it might be a dying CMOS battery. Is your system clock showing the correct time?

how do you know there's no heating issue? Shutting off like that while rendering is most commonly caused by the CPU or GPU overheating, and laptops have terrible heat dissipation. It could be a bad battery/power supply as well. Try a graphics card stress test/benchmark to see if that also causes...

I got an echo dot for the bedroom, when I wake up I just mumble out a few times (until I speak loud enough) "alexa, what time is it" to find out the time. A screen doesn't really help much, not at that size, when i can just ask the time or date or weather.

Here's a question you may not be able to answer. I'm nearsighted, so i can see clearly things that are about 3 inches from my face. (If I were to heavily read a book, I may take off my glasses actually and get the book that close because it's easier on my eyes) But I have to wear my glasses to...