A Reddit Refugee. Zero ragrets.

Engineer, permanent pirate, lover of all things mechanical and on wheels

moved here from lemmy.one because there are no active admins on that instance.

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Cake day: December 22nd, 2023

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  • Be careful when describing Lemmy as a “privacy valuing” service.

    Your personal identity privacy is improved, yes, as there are no corporations to actively sell this data… but your identity (the email and info you signed up with) is at the whims of the admins of whatever instance you signed up for, and hoping their opsec is good.

    The privacy of your content does not exist at all. Anything you post including direct messages is blasted out across the entire fediverse to ALL federated servers, where you have NO control who is downloading and storing it.

    You should treat Lemmy like it is a early 2000s forum site, where you should feel comfortable saying what you like, but never use anything personally identifying anywhere on your profile (including a personal email during sign up), never share anything personal in DM’s, and consider a proxy/VPN to further obscure your ID from instance admins.









  • The point is not that it is being used, the point is that corporations must protect their trademarks or else they may lose the exclusive rights to them. Intel also still uses the “Core” branding on their modern CPU’s so it wouldn’t be a stretch for them to try and continue legally protecting “Core 2 Duo” under the guise of retaining the “Core” part of their trademarks.




  • Bigger hammer and a concrete surface. Three good whacks to the thin sheet metal casing (opposite the drive motor/PCB) should shatter the platters inside.
    You can also buy a sharp punch that looks like this and punch thru the sheetmetal side to really get those platters broke.

    Realistically if they’re already failed, nobody is going through the effort to send these disks through any kind of speciality recovery for a random john q public anyway.


  • Any normal computer can become a “server”, its all based on the software.
    Most enterprise server hardware is expensive because its designed around demanding workloads where uptime and redundancy is important. For a goober wanting to start a Minecraft and Jellyfin server, any old PC will work.
    For home labbers office PC’s is the best way to do it. I have two machines right now that are repurposed office machines. They usually work well as office machines generally focus on having a decent CPU and plenty of memory without wasting money on a high end GPU, and can be had used for very cheap (or even free if you make friends that work in IT). And unless you’re running a lot of game servers or want a 4k streaming box, even a mediocre PC from 2012 is powerful enough to do a lot of stuff on.