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surfrock66@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?

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Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?

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surfrock66@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • diegantobass@lemmy.world
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    Techno-shamanism! I made a dream-catcher made from some plates.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
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      I made a wind chime once that I really loved. Had to dirty the plates because they could catch the sun well enough to vaporize your retinas

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    • Pechente@feddit.de
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      I heard they keep data corruption away.

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    I use the platters like this as my primary long term storage solution. It just saves so much space without the large enclosures. /s

    • Nis@feddit.dk
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      Ah yes. The famous write-only backup solution :D

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    Thought it was just me. Used to have at least twice this many in my old office:

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    This is cool, but honestly kind of a deranged question to ask.

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      Does anybody else harvest the teeth of their victims and put them on a keychain?

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      Fair, my home office is a monument to too much free time, a hoarding habit for ewaste, and a wife who works weekends and overnights.

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  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml
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    No, because I am worried the NSA may try to collate data from them. In fact, I zero-wipe, drill bit the drives in the platters and the PCB, and drop them off at e-waste for recycling.

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    No but now I know what to do with my old hard drive that failed :)

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