• Pilk
      4·
      5 months ago

      Personally I wouldn’t bother, cutting off the power cord does help tell people it’s waste though.

      If I was paranoid about someone finding my AskJeeves search history, I’d open it and smash the HDD platter inside (or just go over it with a magnet).

    • Seagoon_OP
      3·
      5 months ago

      I erase as much as I can, then take out batteries, then smash it all, then add water or glue

    • Duenan
      3·
      5 months ago

      They may be able to recover it and reinstall the OS by using the recovery mode.

      Try and boot up the laptop and hold Command & R as you boot or reboot it and see what options it’ll give you.

    • Taleya
      3·
      5 months ago

      you can probably download and burn the macOS disks if you have access to the media

    • Catfish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Last time I did this I pulled the drive bashed a few nails through it and let sit in a bucket of heavily salted water. I am also partial to tin foil hats.

      • Seagoon_OP
        3·
        5 months ago

        ooo, you use salty water, I just do plain water, I also do glue in the works

    • dumblederp
      2·
      5 months ago

      Put the whole thing in the eWaste bin at the transfer station (tip).

      • CEOofmyhouse56
        2·
        5 months ago

        Destroy the motherboard 🤷‍♀️ whatever that looks like 🤷‍♀️

        • anotherspringchicken
          2·
          5 months ago

          I don’t know which bit that is and I’m too scared to touch anything for fear of electrocution (even though it’s unplugged) 😂