Any artixers in London? I am preparing to dump some old computer kit into a charity shop in Tooting. If anyone is in London and prefer I dump them to an Artixer I can do that by appointment say Friday 15:00 at Tooting Bec Tube station.
EDIT: fwiw the dump has two Intel NUC's, some un/little used keyboards and a couple of rpi4s.
If i lived in london i would be all over this
Sadly no London Artixers have volunteered so this kit is going to the charity shop.
Hello replabrobin,
would you be able to ship the NUCs if someone paid for shipping?
Please contact me in the IRC channel if you can.
Thank you
Sorry Danny, since nobody commented during the week I have donated these to my local charity shop.
i hope they had artix linux preinstalled on their respective drives! maybe you could make a few artixers i london?
Indeed all were randomised with
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=1M status=progress
and then were installed using artix-xfce-runit-20230814-x86_64.iso
User & password 'rupert'
The rpi4's had no sd cards.
You can only erase old spinning magnetic disks like that, for ssd and nvme drives you should use the secure erase facility built into the drive, because the internal design means overwriting can still leave data present. It's also much quicker to perform.
https://superuser.com/questions/1530363/how-to-securely-erase-an-nvme-ssd (https://superuser.com/questions/1530363/how-to-securely-erase-an-nvme-ssd)
Can't hurt to do both.
All manufacturers internal 'secure erase' routines may not be created equally ?
No doubt, but supposedly the problem with overwriting alone is that SSD's and NVME drives have extra hidden memory for wear levelling and error management that isn't visible to overwrite, plus they can use internal compression, so filling the drive to apparent capacity doesn't clear it, which is why the secure erase features were added.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive/Memory_cell_clearing (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive/Memory_cell_clearing)
It can be slightly tricky to do because you can't use a USB enclosure as it might cause drive failure, so you probably need to boot from an iso and import the hdparm package with another USB as that's rarely present on installation iso's it seems.