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Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?
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this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2024
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I have like 30 old hard drives laying around and have been thinking about doing a cool art installation with them for a while.
Maybe shatter the platters to create a spiky landscape and epoxy them in, or something like that.
Any ideas?
Their density makes them ring like a bell, if suspended by a wire through the center. Good wind chimes.
Will have to try that, also a good way to one-up my neighbor with those CDs hanging outside. :)