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      41 year 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).

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      31 year 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.

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      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.

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          21 year ago

          I don’t know which bit that is and I’m too scared to touch anything for fear of electrocution (even though it’s unplugged) 😂