DrMacintosh

Biggest feature improvement hands down. The more apps that can have tabs, the better. I'm not joking its a great way to work.

Biggest feature improvement hands down. The more apps that can have tabs, the better. I'm not joking its a great way to work.

Biggest feature improvement hands down. The more apps that can have tabs, the better. I'm not joking its a great way to work.

Biggest feature improvement hands down. The more apps that can have tabs, the better. I'm not joking its a great way to work.

Biggest feature improvement hands down. The more apps that can have tabs, the better. I'm not joking its a great way to work.

The dropping out issue I believe relates to drives that use SMR, rather than CMR. If the system is not aware of the drives being SMR, it will consider them non-responsive and drop them. As long as the system is aware they're SMR and fully compatible with them, you shouldn't run into that issue. However, I would stay away from SMR drives as they are really slow when rebuilding arrays. I have used WD Blues in a RAID array, and never had issues with drop-offs. For context, I was using FreeNAS at this time. 
 
 

No, you don't need them.  Are they a good idea?  Yes.  Reliability is what you're after.

Firstly, you're not wrong. VirtualBox is a slow, but you can make is usable for non-3D tasks by installing the Guest Additions pack for your VMs OS, increasing the graphics video memory to the max, adding enough memory to your VM, and of course, installing your VM on an SSD. 

Do you have all the VirtualBox Additions installed in your guest OS?

I'd list what you currently have that way we can gauge what might be more useful. Also, what model iPhone? 
 
I think we can safely kick the Razer off the list. Their reliability is abysmal, I wouldn't recommend their laptops to anyone. 

These are all completely different things. You got a grand burning a whole in your pocket?

These are all completely different things. You got a grand burning a whole in your pocket?

If you were making local backups, you can't peak into those data files and get photos out of it, you can only restore from a backup with a local iTunes backup. So without another iPhone, you can't access your data. If you had been using iCloud, you could log in to iCloud.com and download all your photos and information. 

Did you back up to iCloud? You can go to iCloud.com to get your photos. I don't think there is a way to hack into your backup file to get your photos. Maybe do a google search for some software that can give you access to your photos.
 
Otherwise there isn't really much you can do if your phone won't turn on.

Air cooling and water cooling only work because there is some medium to carry heat away from the components. Without any air, no cooling can happen and the components would over heat. There is a reason cooling components for space objects like the ISS and satellites is completely different from what we are used to with our everyday electronics. 

Because there isn't any airflow the rest of the parts, or anything not actively cooled and being able to dump heat outside the vacuum, would overheat

Your MacBook needs to be connected to power in order to use it with an external display while the lid is closed. 
This is incorrect. Clamshell mode does exactly what you're saying can't be done. 

Plug the Mac into power. When you do that the Mac enters "clam shell mode" and you will get a video signal out.

I do not envy having to be a software dev that has to build a graphics drive for a variety of graphics cards that are expected to run in literally infinite combinations/variations of systems. If you think about it, its kind of an insane ask.

Have you uninstalled and reinstalled chrome?

We use Jobber and Service Auto Pilot right now. It works fine in jobber but service auto pilot, kinda rough . It hates all the pop up windows and stuff it does. 

Um... are you asking us to make recommendations now based on what might be on sale nine months from now? 

In the future use ad blockers and don't download stuff unless you 100% know what you're doing.
 
Reformat all drives (preferably with a different OS and on a separate machine), do not restore from a backup because you likely have backed up your malware. Update your BIOS, format a USB drive, create a bootable Windows installer, add your drives back and install Windows.

In the future use ad blockers and don't download stuff unless you 100% know what you're doing.
 
Reformat all drives (preferably with a different OS and on a separate machine), do not restore from a backup because you likely have backed up your malware. Update your BIOS, format a USB drive, create a bootable Windows installer, add your drives back and install Windows.

In the future use ad blockers and don't download stuff unless you 100% know what you're doing.
 
Reformat all drives (preferably with a different OS and on a separate machine), do not restore from a backup because you likely have backed up your malware. Update your BIOS, format a USB drive, create a bootable Windows installer, add your drives back and install Windows.