What’s the dumbest thing you’ve done to fix a tech issue?

Evkob (they/them) · 1M

What’s the dumbest thing you’ve done to fix a tech issue?

@xye@lemm.ee · 1M

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

Chris · 1M

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…