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Techno-shamanism! I made a dream-catcher made from some plates.

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I made a wind chime once that I really loved. Had to dirty the plates because they could catch the sun well enough to vaporize your retinas

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I heard they keep data corruption away.

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I made a DRAM catcher once.

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I use the platters like this as my primary long term storage solution. It just saves so much space without the large enclosures. /s

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Thought it was just me. Used to have at least twice this many in my old office:

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No but now I know what to do with my old hard drive that failed :)

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No, because I am worried the NSA may try to collate data from them. In fact, I zero-wipe, drill bit the drives in the platters and the PCB, and drop them off at e-waste for recycling.

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