this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025
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you know the computer thing is it plugged in?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I know this post is in jest, but

Downright evil ๐Ÿ˜ˆ. Threw perfectly good wind chimes in the trash. And the magnets. We always need more magnets!

Anyone wants to know what to really do with old drives? If broken or end of useful life?

Recycle, people! Grab a screwdriver, crack that sucker open and take what you want, sell the rest to your local scrap recyclers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If it's got any life left, don't forget to overwrite everything on it with copies of Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Roll.

[โ€“] wreckedcarzz 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine getting rid of non-dead drives

glances at my stockpile of drives from the last 25 years

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] wreckedcarzz 4 points 2 weeks ago

Silence, spinning rust. Your whines and incessant vibration is why you have been banished by The Good Computer. Now you must work in the NAS pits until you perish.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Rick Roll the famous gymnast?

... or do you mean Rick Bond?

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

James Howells on his way to dig through your trash:

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

James Howells on his way to dig through your trash

[โ€“] RestrictedAccount 11 points 2 weeks ago