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[hector13]

It’s racing stripes for RAM.

[Iduno]

Is there a reason why the RAM modules on my laptop are hidden behind a metal shield? Every other laptop I've opened up doesn't do this, so why would this one be different?

Heat transfer. It's supposed to help move the heat away from the working parts and to the air the fans moves around. Laptops generally have less volume, so less air movement, so they try to put in parts that put off so much heat. The problem comes in when people want a laptop that is as fast as a desktop.

[methylatedspirit]

So, my old laptop is so terrible that it can't be traded-in, and it's so slow that using it is a test of patience. I also don't feel comfortable giving it to anyone, because I don't wish to subject others to the torture that is using this laptop. What can I do with it?

[delphonso]

Battery recycling places also take old laptops. Or load it with smaller and smaller versions of linux just for fun. I think feather runs on 16mb.

[King Zultan]

You could throw it off an overpass at an oncoming car, or you could put it in the microwave for a few minutes and see what happens.

[delphonso]

Go to the park and pretend to be doing some work, shout out in frustration and throw the laptop into the nearest body of water. 

[methylatedspirit]

I opened up my old laptop to take a look at its components. The RAM in this thing is actually decent, 2 sticks of 4 GB DDR4-2400. The kicker is, this thing runs it at 1866 MHz. Why'd the manufacturer go for 2400 MHz RAM if it would never support such speeds? Was DDR4-1866 RAM no longer manufactured by the time this thing was made in ~2016?

[Naturegirl1999]

Have any of you heard the Don't hug me I'm scared videos backwards? I'm doing that now, downloaded an MP3 of a video that combines all 6, put it into Audacity, and am listening to it now. It is very interesting 

[Rolan7]

Small random question-
why

(You have interesting audio tastes!  That sounds very spooky.  Backwards audio already sounds spooky, and I imagine that using such spooky content would make it even spookier when you know what it was)

[Naturegirl1999]

Because it sounds amazing

[methylatedspirit]

What is it like to have depth perception? What's it like to always be able to judge distance without having to process what you're seeing?

[Naturegirl1999]

What is it like to have depth perception? What's it like to always be able to judge distance without having to process what you're seeing?

i wish I could tell you. I only have one working eye

[delphonso]

I can't tell the difference. If I close one eye or keep it covered for a long time, I don't notice any difference.

[Frumple]

It's like a three point shot from half court, I guess.

I'm not actually sure, I vaguely remember folks saying people with one functioning eye still have depth perception, or something like that. Other than that, I haven't personally lost it at any point I can recall, so trying to explain it is like someone who has never had visual snow try to explain what the world looks like to someone that's always had it. What's it like to have a field of vision not filled with mostly transparent wiggling blobs of static-y color overlaying everything? What's the lie of stillness like to experience? Does the world ever stop moving to you? Is there ever only darkness behind your closed eyes? These are things I've never lived. Words grant an idea or approximation, but they can't be lived. I don't know depth perception's lack, and I've been hallucinating 24/7 for over three decades.

[Naturegirl1999]

I know distances between things, I also learned in anatomy or physiology that depth perception is a bi ocular vision cue, which implies two eyes are needed for it