this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
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This community is dedicated to showcasing broken hardware like phones, laptops, computer hardware and other devices. Here, you can see everything from shattered screens, bent casings, fried motherboards, destroyed gadgets, to liquid damaged phones and battery explosions. Share your unfortunate moments, whether they are unintentional accidents or from moments with lack of control.


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(last updated: 10th October 2023 - Rewording some rules, minor updates to existing rules and introduction of Rule 7; no actual change in how the community works than it already does)


  1. This community is a part of the Lemmy.world instance. You must follow its Code of Conduct (https://mastodon.world/about).
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would anyone need this many partitions?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Distro hoppers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bit of superglue will fix that badboi right up

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah you're delusional if you think that. I know this is overkill but I think this is bad enough that you need to bring out the ramen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You’re totally right! Theres going to be missing bits from the hard drive, ramen will fill it up

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

A bunch of bad sectors, no biggie

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No panic spinrite or ddrescue will handle it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

At a quick glance I thought this was some spaceship orbiting around venus!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You can't fix this with a defrag, that's a virus