Bigger hammer and a concrete surface. Three good whacks to the thin sheet metal casing (opposite the drive motor/PCB) should shatter the platters inside.
You can also buy a sharp punch that looks like this and punch thru the sheetmetal side to really get those platters broke.

Realistically if they’re already failed, nobody is going through the effort to send these disks through any kind of speciality recovery for a random john q public anyway.

Any normal computer can become a “server”, its all based on the software.
Most enterprise server hardware is expensive because its designed around demanding workloads where uptime and redundancy is important. For a goober wanting to start a Minecraft and Jellyfin server, any old PC will work.
For home labbers office PC’s is the best way to do it. I have two machines right now that are repurposed office machines. They usually work well as office machines generally focus on having a decent CPU and plenty of memory without wasting money on a high end GPU, and can be had used for very cheap (or even free if you make friends that work in IT). And unless you’re running a lot of game servers or want a 4k streaming box, even a mediocre PC from 2012 is powerful enough to do a lot of stuff on.

It’s legal boilerplate.

is somebody really expected check the ToS of the server the community they’re posting in is on,

Technically yes. Practically nobody does.

I am not gonna lie, I tried two or three separate times and was never able to get a sign up email to go through from multiple instances. I don’t know if Gmail has been black-holing them all to protect their interests or not, but I pretty much gave up.

3 sticky notes telling me to “go get that incremental backup working”,
2 separate external hard drives,
1 month out of date

I’m currently half way thru building a ZFS array using (5) 8tb Ironwolf Pro drives. I’m modelling and 3d printing a custom drive cage with brackets to hold them all inside the shitty Dell tower case I have dedicated to it. Hoping I can get it done sometime Sunday, I’m on V2 of the drive cage print and it takes like 8 hours to do lol.

The best instance on lemmy grows ever stronger ✊️

So you got downvoted for a bunch of really shitty conservative political takes on the Canadian instance, and you’re going to call it “censorship”?

Grow up and take some time for introspection.

bigoted as they may be.

You are not welcome here or at any other instance then. Report me all you want.

If you truly want your bigoted Freeze Peach, go ahead and start up your own instance. See how long it lasts before every other major instance cuts you off- if you can figure it out, lemmy is notoriously hard to run right.

Reported.

Lmao how free speech of you!!!1!1!!

Here at db0 is about as free as you can get…

EXCEPT.

If your definition of “free speech” is “I want to be racist or homophobic”, which I suspect this is, go kick rocks loser.

How do I feel?

I was following my Lemmy rule and hunting out smaller instances rather than pile into the biggest one.
tried 4 separate smaller instance sign ups and never got a single one of them to work and send me a verification email, so I kinda gave up…

I was never one to use Instagram, specifically because of the meta bullshit… looks like maybe I’ll try pixelfed as a first time for the format.

oh I always knew it- maybe a week or two after they started spamming, I caught them posting 3 or 4 times in the /c/conservative comm with some VERY overtly racist articles. They did a great job ignoring me when I started calling them out on it though, very strange.

Edit: Here it was, they spammed a bunch of stuff, including that one particular article in the middle about Oregon’s housing assistance program being only for illegal immigrants (an outright lie that only existed for racist purposes):

That mf is still around? And now they’re spamming right wing nazi stuff, despite definitely for sure being a legitimate honest 3rd party Jill Stein Stan? My gosh, say it isn’t so!

There is nothing for them to learn about “netiquette”, they are a cancerous wart intentionally participating in bad faith with the entire fediverse.

your hardware ain’t shit until it’s a first gen core2duo in a random Dell office PC and 2gb of memory that you specifically only use just because it’s a cheaper way to get x86 when you can’t use your raspberry pi.

Also they lie most of the time and it may technically run fine on more memory, especially if it’s older when dimm capacities were a lot lower than they can be now. It just won’t be “supported”.

@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com interested in cutting this site off perhaps?

If it works, it works. Really any old cheap pcie card will work, if you just need video out of any kind the card type need not be specific. Glad you got it to work.

That’s good to know. I’ve had some half baked plans to host a public instance for a while (will probably get to it in winter) and honestly the legal risk has been something that’s really held me back. Knowing I have a way to cover my ass for removing it is great.

Hmm, this is something I haven’t heard about. Can you actually register as an instance hoster with the FBI or equivalent to say “hey I have a service that may be exposed to CSAM, I do not condone this and will report any cases of it that I see”? If so that could reduce a lot of people’s specific legal fears of hosting.