Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐔🐣🐤 🏚️ 💀 🦦 Sunday, July 07, 2024

anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Personally I wouldn’t bother, cutting off the power cord does help tell people it’s waste though.

  If I was paranoid about someone finding my AskJeeves search history, I’d open it and smash the HDD platter inside (or just go over it with a magnet).

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  you can probably download and burn the macOS disks if you have access to the media

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I erase as much as I can, then take out batteries, then smash it all, then add water or glue

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Last time I did this I pulled the drive bashed foil hats.a few nails through it and let sit in a bucket of heavily salted water. I am also partial to tin

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ooo, you use salty water, I just do plain water, I also do glue in the works

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They may be able to recover it and reinstall the OS by using the recovery mode.

  Try and boot up the laptop and hold Command & R as you boot or reboot it and see what options it’ll give you.

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• dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Put the whole thing in the eWaste bin at the transfer station (tip).

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• anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Destroy the motherboard 🤷‍♀️ whatever that looks like 🤷‍♀️

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    • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know which bit that is and I’m too scared to touch anything for fear of electrocution (even though it’s unplugged) 😂

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      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ok, the man said take a hammer to the hard drive 🤷‍♀️

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