• Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
    9·
    il y a 17 heures

    Don’t look at it.

    Boot into a linux live usb

    Run dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<driveid>

    I probably didn’t get that perfect, but, close enough. Look it up on the internet or check the man page idk

    • zephiriz@lemmy.ml
      6·
      il y a 16 heures

      What is this where did my OS go?

      I love dd. Hate using USB programs to burn iso they are all different and weird but man dd is great.

  • BennyInc@feddit.org
    109·
    il y a 1 jour

    Tip: keep refreshing the tracking page every 60 seconds. This makes the parcel travel even faster.

    • MarauderIIC@lemmy.zip
      2·
      il y a 13 heures

      Little known fact: refreshing the tracking page not only tells the company that you are invested in your package’s arrival time, this telling them to prioritize it, it also pumps electrons into the cardboard so that it is attracted to the fastest moving delivery vehicle.

      (Just kidding, neither of these things are true.)

      • x4740N@lemmy.world
        8·
        il y a 1 jour

        For me it goes faster for some reason when I look at it but gets slower when I look away

        • Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.ml
          2·
          il y a 17 heures

          Probably the OS saying “nuh uh, if you don’t have the window focused then i’il cap his download speed”

        • Edgarallenpwn@midwest.socialEnglish
          4·
          il y a 22 heures

          The magic packet fairies are no different than us. Move the data when the boss is looking, and have some fun when they walk away.

  • Sunkblake@lemmy.world
    11·
    il y a 22 heures

    Recover the data on it. Burn it with fire. Cry because you saw what it was.

    Ask yourself why there is a school report on an animation studio on the “new” laptop your “stepmothers” mother bought and used towards the end as she lost her senses thinking people were spying on her trying to hide everything from “the them” deleting what ever she thought was spying on her.

      • Sunkblake@lemmy.world
        1·
        il y a 16 heures

        An Oddly specific example, that could have happened to anyone… me.

        Ignore it I have issues and constantly want to talk about myself.

        • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
          4·
          il y a 16 heures

          No it’s cool

          I uh

          I’m sorry you went through that. Glad you have a sense of humor about it

          • Sunkblake@lemmy.world
            1·
            il y a 5 heures

            It wasn’t that bad, mostly sad to see all the images she removed, and difficult to find everywhere the credit cards where used because she removed all emails and text messages.

  • shneancy@lemmy.world
    50·
    il y a 1 jour

    theatrically turn away from the tracking page and make it feel like you don’t care, it can smell your fear, the same way a printer does, and it’ll then arrive a day after you need it the most

  • Beacon@fedia.io
    29·
    il y a 1 jour

    If it’s a spinning disk hard drive then do a low level format i.e. do a security write zeros on the whole disk (be sure to delete all partitions first). This will try to write a zero to every single sector, and any bad sectors will be removed from use.

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      il y a 1 jour

      I don’t think you need to delete the partitions separately, since it’s just a table at the very beginning of which parts of the disk belong to which partition?

      So if you dd zeroes over everything, the first thing that gets deleted is the partitioning table

      I might be wrong here, or maybe it doesn’t apply to every situation, but that’s how I’ve understood it to work

      Also a tip for OP: don’t write zeroes over it, but random data (dd if=/dev/urandom ...). It’s a bit more secure as it makes it harder to see the size and location of the encrypted data on the disk

      • Beacon@fedia.io
        5·
        il y a 1 jour

        I’ve found that on some systems and some utility apps, if there are partitions present then doing a zeroing pass only zeros the partition rather than the entire drive itself

          • naeap@sopuli.xyz
            6·
            il y a 23 heures

            Yeah, dd does as told and doesn’t care about your tears about the stupid typo

          • Beacon@fedia.io
            3·
            il y a 22 heures

            Correct, it was the built it disk utility app on Mac. I had a giant drive with a few partitions and clicked to do a zero pass and it finished in a half second. Obviously there was no way it completed that fast. I did some empirical testing based on completion time and sure enough it only zeroes a single partition rather than the entire disk

            • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              il y a 18 heures

              I miss when Disk Utility was good and simple and predictable on MacOS. It’s such steaming shit now.

  • dumbass@aussie.zoneEnglish
    11·
    il y a 1 jour

    This is why I stopped ordering from wish, I study the tracking like I’m investigating the cartel.

    • Engywook@lemmy.zip
      8·
      il y a 1 jour

      No kidding, once I was able to exactly follow the route of my laptop shipped from Lenovo (China) on flightradar after a careful study of carrier/parcel number/tracking events time and don’t remember what else. It was literal real time tracking. Don’t even remember how I did it.

  • fckreddit@lemmy.ml
    8·
    il y a 1 jour

    Meditate until you reach the realization that, hdd is useless, all material stuff is useless and you have reached nirvana.