I’m starting to get back into the swing of tech at large, and found a business laptop that fits my needs for a portable low power emulation device. When I look to buy it secondhand, because I don’t intend to burn money or the environment unnecessarily, I find dozens of extremely cheap listings without drives. Are these secondhand from businesses removing and drilling the drives or is there something else going on?

  • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    I’ve sold or given away a few computers recently, and always remove the HDD first (and list it as such)

    Obviously I don’t want some stranger to have all my documents - and deleting the data might not completely work.