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What's the dumbest thing you've done to fix a tech issue? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by Evkob@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] xye@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Hard drive in the freezer. Broken actuator. Well, I put the entire laptop in. Early 00s probably. Worked for like 3 minutes.

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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

Think I've done this one too! Desperately trying to rescue some data off a hard drive which just went click click click. Freeze it, try again, works for a few minutes until it warms back up and click click click....

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