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(Answer requested by Ayesha Fatima.) Almost surely, yes. Most good-quality generators of recent vintage produce electronically-stabilized, sine- or pseudo-sine wave AC power that’s usually fine for any purpose, up to the stated output limits of the generator. (Check the owner’s manual.) But cheap no-name generators, and many older units, may use mechanical voltage/speed governors, and/or…
(Answer requested by Sameer Chakma.) No, if you mean your question literally: At its heart, a computer’s heat sink is usually just a piece of inert metal. There’s nothing to break or stop working. But I suspect you mean: “Is it possible for a PC’s heat-removal system to malfunction?” and that answer is a definite…
(Answer requested by Ryan Nugent) In my experience, all of them. Windows 10’s various Reset and Fresh Start options can strip away most or all (your choice) of the preinstalled software on any Windows PC. You’ll be left with a PC running as “pure” and unmodified a Windows setup as your system allows. You may…
(Answer requested by Elynn Quirk) Personally? Nope. Not at all. I doubt I use my keyboard’s backlight even 0.1% of the time. I’d probably feel differently if I were regularly using the laptop in situations with poor lighting. But if there’s enough light to work, there’s usually enough light for me to to see the…
(Answer requested by Edgar Ferrer) Yikes! If this actually worked on your laptop, you’re very lucky. The actual, true “put it in the fridge” advice is very old-school, and is/was a nothing-left-to-lose, last-ditch recovery option for malfunctioning spinning-platter hard drives. Deep-chilling a mechanical drive could sometimes free up stuck internal parts, via differential contraction/expansion of…
(Answer requested by Trevor Noble) Why does it take so long to paint a house compared to a garden shed? 🙂 Laptops are typically much more capacious than phones, and carry far more software and files. EG: My phone (an S10) has 128GB of internal drive storage, with 75GB currently in use (filled with files…
(Answer requested by Ian Alter) Probably less than you think. My first notebook was a TRS-100 Model 100, weighing in at about 1.4 kilograms (3.1 lb), including its power supply — four ordinary, buy-anywhere, AA cells.) I carried my Model 100 literally around the world, back in the day. 🙂 Permalink: https://langa.com/?p=3865
(Answer requested by Kimberley Johnson) They sure can give different results, can’t they? But it’s not so much because the guts of the mikes are wildly different. Rather, it’s how they’re used. In a laptop, the microphones will pick up not only the intended sounds, but also vibrations from the hard drive and fan; plus…
(Answer requested by A.R.Talha) The answer depends on how old the battery is. By human analogy, think of the 100% effort that a 20 year old footballer can give compared to the 100% effort of a nursing home resident. It’s a full 100% effort in both cases, but the latter is less overall than the…
(Answer requested by Dennis Willis) You’ll need a cable lock and either an adhesive anchor or a cable long enough to lasso itself after passing around or through an immovable object. A PC cable lock (examples) attaches to a security point built into most laptop bodies; the attachment point is connected to the laptop’s frame,…
