to gut a device
Jun. 17th, 2025 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randomarceusI've been going through file recovery on a ten-year-old laptop. It's interesting to see what sorts of cached images and stuff are on there.
Something about hard drives are so fascinating to me. I had to remove it from the aforementioned laptop (which I've never done before), and it's just so cool that such a little rectangle can hold so much. That thing could probably fit a lifetime's worth of photos, of documents... all hooked up to the laptop. That's the device's lifeblood, almost like its brain. And I can just pry it out? Even though the laptop's dead*, its soul can still stick around for a while.
(*fine, I don't know if it's dead. what I know is that I can't find the charger, and also it hasn't been used for ten whole years anyway, so if it wasn't dead then then it may have been by now)
Something about hard drives are so fascinating to me. I had to remove it from the aforementioned laptop (which I've never done before), and it's just so cool that such a little rectangle can hold so much. That thing could probably fit a lifetime's worth of photos, of documents... all hooked up to the laptop. That's the device's lifeblood, almost like its brain. And I can just pry it out? Even though the laptop's dead*, its soul can still stick around for a while.
(*fine, I don't know if it's dead. what I know is that I can't find the charger, and also it hasn't been used for ten whole years anyway, so if it wasn't dead then then it may have been by now)
