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  • Re: Am I the only one dum

    From Jimmy Anderson@21:2/127 to Rixter on Sun May 4 14:11:00 2025
    Rixter wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

    Yeah - when I work on stuff for people, or myself, if it's 'trash'
    (e-cycle bound) I will dismantle the hard drive and break the
    platters. Maybe I should get in the habit of secure wipe instead
    and keep those for short term backups?

    I am bad for hanging on to things, just in case I might need them in
    the future.

    I'm not as bad as I used to be... I used to keep EVERYTHING! :-)

    Now if I were a tinkerer to the point of soldering my own boards
    and such? That would be different, but I'm more of an assembler.
    :-)

    As far as the hard drives go I have actually used many of
    them as back up drives for personal and BBS related backups or outright drive replacement when needed. When the drives useful is obviously at
    an end I use a demagnetizer and then an old fashioned hammer. Lol.

    That works too, but I usually, like I said, ismantle and break
    the platters... I've been known to use them for target practice.
    A nice green tip 5.56 will take one out too. :-)



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