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surfrock66@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years 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 · 2 years ago
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  • Flixich@feddit.de
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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

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      You joke but early 90s we had exactly this with magneto optical drives

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

  • 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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      deleted by creator

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

    • egeres@lemmy.world
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      Oh wow!

  • gmtom@lemmy.world
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    This is cool, but honestly kind of a deranged question to ask.

    • BleatingZombie@lemmy.world
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      Does anybody else harvest the teeth of their victims and put them on a keychain?

      • butterflyattack@lemmy.world
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        Or fashion bow ties from their testicles. . ?

    • surfrock66@lemmy.worldOP
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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.

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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      This is just a less gross version of “DAE store their piss in jars so they can commemorate their unitary secretions”?

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        Unhinged comment.

  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    No but now I know what to do with my old hard drive that failed :)

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    That’s a funny looking Stanley cup.

  • hemmes@lemmy.world
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    Dude’s the Predator of the IT world

    • ssdfsdf3488sd@lemmy.world
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      Pretty sure that title is firmly held by mcafe, even now.

  • eldritch_horror@lemm.ee
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    just the magnets. They are very nice magnets.

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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      Likewise

  • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    What

  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
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    No

  • oDDmON@lemmy.world
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    Yes. The magnets are ridiculously strong. Several hold screen in place on my heat exchanger, to keep leaves and lawn debris at bay.

    Haven’t figured out a good use for the platters, but skeet shooting has crossed my mind.

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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      If you wind a 2 or 3 layer pancake coil the size of the platter out of 12 or 14AWG magnet wire and dump a couple kJ through it from a capacitor bank, the platter will launch into the air. Don’t try it indoors unless you want a platter embedded in the ceiling.

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        Zombie apocalypse DIY railgun

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    I don’t have the space to hoard garbage.

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    I use them as coffee mats…

    • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
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      I do that with save icons!

    • Vik@lemmy.world
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      The 3.5s make for excellent coasters lol

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        How do you keep them from sticking onto cups

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          Good question, but I’ve not had that issue so far

          I typically use yeti ramblers with a metal bases on them, though I’ve set ceramic mugs down on them too and they’ve not stuck. might depend on the drink a little?

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            Oh it’s probably vacuum sealed then so it doesn’t condensate

            • Vik@lemmy.world
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              Maybe but I do spill a bit every now and then. Can’t speak for the regular ceramic mugs, though that’s a bit of a rarity and they just have herbal tea

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    Nope, but now I wish i did

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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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    Holy crap. I don’t, but after seeing that I think I’ll need to start

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