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+Date: 2023-03-07
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Apple products are all around us. Normies love apple products! But, i'm sure all of you already knew that.
+What I find funny about this though, is how the people who buy apple products end up buying crappy, poorly made accessories for their devices, made in chinese sweatshops other than the foxconn ones.
+The most common cheap accessory I see apple users carrying around are non-OEM chargers.
+I mean, seriously, if you spent 100 USD on that product, I would understand, but if your spending upwards of 700-1000 USD, or however much that apple product costs, wouldn't you want to protect your expensive (yet overpriced) purchase?
+It defies common logic in my opinion, and I will never understand the rationale behind this logic.
+I guess these people are too broke after buying a product for the logo on it that they just don't have enough money left over in their budget for OEM chargers. (especially now since apple isn't including power supplys with their cell phones! I love greenwashing!)
+The last thing anyone should do though, is cheap out on chargers for their devices (especially overpriced apple ones).
+It's not going to be fun when their cheap knockoff chargers or power supplys send more voltage to the charging ICs in their device than they are rated for, and their motherboards go boom.
+Then the "geniuses" over at the "genius" bar in the apple store are just going to tell you to "buy a new one".
+Also, cheap power supplys tend to be horribly made and often meltdown, explode, and cause fires, so uh, unless you want your place of residence to go up in flames while your sleeping, I would stay as far away from those as possible.
+I think i'll end this ramble here though, so thanks for reading, and goodbye.
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Signed,
+Lilium_Snow (Primrose)
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I decided to take them with me just to tinker around with them and see if anything was wrong with them.
-The HP machine was in pretty good condition, so I decided to take a look at that one first. I went ahead and inserted a USB with Linux Mint on it, and booted the machine up.
-I then went ahead and mounted the internal drive, and to my surprise, it was not wiped.
-I was able to go through the documents and downloads folder of the previous owner, and oh boy, was there a LOT of personal data on it.
-Documents such as passport applications, scans of drivers licenses, bank statements, and more could be found RIGHT THERE on the drive. I was in awe at how someone could just toss a machine out like this.
-The previous owner didn't even bother taking out the hard drive, even though it could have been taken out by removing two screws on the bottom of the machine.
-I was planning on contacting the previous owner about their very stupid mistake, but by the time I tried to access the data on the drive again, the drive started failing on me and giving me a bunch of input/output errors, so I wasn't able to.
-The Dell machine on the other hand, was in poor condition, and looked like it was used by a child judging by the stickers on the machine.
-When I tried to look through it's internal drive, it was already dead, so there's that.
-To wrap this all up though, I would like to close with this:
-WIPE THE DATA ON YOUR MACHINES BEFORE YOU THROW THEM OUT, THANK YOU
]]> + Last Sunday, I was downstairs in the basement of my apartment building, where I stumbled across two laptops. Both looked fairly old, and upon closer inspection later, were from 2012-2013. +I decided to take them with me just to tinker around with them and see if anything was wrong with them.
+The HP machine was in pretty good condition, so I decided to take a look at that one first. I went ahead and inserted a USB with Linux Mint on it, and booted the machine up.
+I then went ahead and mounted the internal drive, and to my surprise, it was not wiped.
+I was able to go through the documents and downloads folder of the previous owner, and oh boy, was there a LOT of personal data on it.
+Documents such as passport applications, scans of drivers licenses, bank statements, and more could be found RIGHT THERE on the drive. I was in awe at how someone could just toss a machine out like this.
+The previous owner didn't even bother taking out the hard drive, even though it could have been taken out by removing two screws on the bottom of the machine.
+I was planning on contacting the previous owner about their very stupid mistake, but by the time I tried to access the data on the drive again, the drive started failing on me and giving me a bunch of input/output errors, so I wasn't able to.
+The Dell machine on the other hand, was in poor condition, and looked like it was used by a child judging by the stickers on the machine.
+When I tried to look through it's internal drive, it was already dead, so there's that.
+To wrap this all up though, I would like to close with this:
+WIPE THE DATA ON YOUR MACHINES BEFORE YOU THROW THEM OUT, THANK YOU
]]> +What I find funny about this though, is how the people who buy apple products end up buying crappy, poorly made accessories for their devices, made in chinese sweatshops other than the foxconn ones.
+The most common cheap accessory I see apple users carrying around are non-OEM chargers.
+I mean, seriously, if you spent 100 USD on that product, I would understand, but if your spending upwards of 700-1000 USD, or however much that apple product costs, wouldn't you want to protect your expensive (yet overpriced) purchase?
+It defies common logic in my opinion, and I will never understand the rationale behind this logic.
+I guess these people are too broke after buying a product for the logo on it that they just don't have enough money left over in their budget for OEM chargers. (especially now since apple isn't including power supplys with their cell phones! I love greenwashing!)
+The last thing anyone should do though, is cheap out on chargers for their devices (especially overpriced apple ones).
+It's not going to be fun when their cheap knockoff chargers or power supplys send more voltage to the charging ICs in their device than they are rated for, and their motherboards go boom.
+Then the "geniuses" over at the "genius" bar in the apple store are just going to tell you to "buy a new one".
+Also, cheap power supplys tend to be horribly made and often meltdown, explode, and cause fires, so uh, unless you want your place of residence to go up in flames while your sleeping, I would stay as far away from those as possible.
+I think i'll end this ramble here though, so thanks for reading, and goodbye.