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@thefrog

If disposing a drive the best thing to do is to use dd and have it write zero’s over the disk.

This’ll work on HDD’s, but not SSD’s.

@thefrog

or just taking it out and physically destroying it.

But that’ll do it

[cactux]

I’ll bury it in the ground for the future archeological/historical research to get insight into the life and and deeds of a lone Linux nerd in 2020:s.

[dalto]

@limotux

If I am selling it altogether as working laptop I would install a fresh OS, and maybe encrypt it with both LUKS and then ecryptsfs, and I won’t give the user pasword or root password to the buyer to force them to install their own OS again.

If I am selling a device with existing storage, I will securely wipe the device and then put a clean install on the device without passwords.

If the device can’t be wiped securely, I will pull it and not sell it. This is mostly only an issue with older SSDs. Most modern SSDs support secure erasing.