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Okay. I have a couple of days before the e-cycling. I'll post a craigslist ad this evening and see if I get any bites.
And, msbelle...so THAT. The mini I'm coming to you on now had a bunch of private information on it, even though the family thought they'd cleaned it.
One of the towers isn't booting, so that one may have to go unclean, but the other has been stripped already.
When I can't get a computer to boot to reformat before recycling I'll often just pull the drive out and snip the connection between the drive controller board and the drive before recycling the parts separately.
You may get a little money out of the G5 towers but there just isn't a lot of value left in them any more. They can't run anything approaching a recent OS and recent software won't run on them.
I wouldn't expect more than $75 out of them.
I'm leaning in the direction of just letting them go. The friend who is taking me to the recycling event is strong and willing to carry them off...they are quite heavy!
Rob, that is a terrific idea, thank you! I can totally snip the wires.
I need a new TV, but it looks like I'm going to wait until the fall to get one.
The Roku is definitely a much better interface than my Samsung Smart TV.
Does anyone have a way to make Amazon Prime Video not suck? Whenever I try to watch anything via Amazon on a wireless connection, it's a disaster. The app crashes constantly and can't seem to stay connected to wifi for more than a few minutes at a time.
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Got accidentally hooked on Betas but can't watch it on my iPad #dontjudgeme
Jessica, do you have a blu-ray player or another device that allows you to watch amazon on your TV? I've had pretty good luck with watching amazon that way.
I have an embarrassing number of screens I can watch streaming video, but I don't always want to watch on my 50" screen in the living room. Sometimes I just want to curl up in bed with my iPad.
The Roku version has never given me a problem, so I can't say. The Kindle Fire app was fine too, back when I had one. The complete lack of a regular Android Amazon Videos app has kept me from trying it on my newer (Barnes and Noble) tablet.
I wonder if they make the iPad version suck on purpose for a similar reason to why they don't offer a regular Android version - to get you to buy a Kindle Fire. If so, they're crazy, but I've not found Amazon to always make sense.