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submitted 4 months ago by Seagoon_ to c/melbourne

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[–] CEOofmyhouse56 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm looking up Philly cheesesteak recipes and I can't help thinking what a waste of a good steak but then maybe I'm missing out on something really good. I don't know. Convince me why or why not I should create this.

[–] SituationCake 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do it for fun and also to inform us if it’s worth it or not.

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[+] anotherspringchicken 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

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[–] Pilk 4 points 4 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).

[–] Duenan 3 points 4 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.

[–] Taleya 3 points 4 months ago

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

[–] Seagoon_ 3 points 4 months ago

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

[–] Catfish 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Seagoon_ 3 points 4 months ago

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

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[–] Seagoon_ 3 points 4 months ago

staple gun has been bought, tapestry patchwork has been made, now to clean up so I can get started on the chairs tomorrow

the fabrics turned out so much nicer than I imagined 😊

[–] Seagoon_ 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

home and having some decaf

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[–] bull 2 points 4 months ago

Got what from everything I can tell a real email from uber with a verification code to login and I haven't logged in today. That means that, assuming it was real, someone got my password right.

Aaaand then I spent an hour resetting a bunch of passwords and deleting all passwords from Microsoft and Google (I use an external password manager now).

While digging through privacy and security stuff I did see that someone tries to unsuccessfully login to my Microsoft account every few hours from various countries around the world. I'm guessing that happens to a lot of people whose accounts are old and have been involved in breaches of services you sign up with them with.

Glad I have multifactor authentication setup for all the important stuff.

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