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What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned?

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Sanctus@lemmy.world
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The worst piece of tech I currently own is a small server that must have hard drive issues cause it forgets everything when it restarts and I have to set it up again.

The worst piece of tech that I have ever owned in my life is a CD Cleaner I bought from GameStop back in the day. That shit was straight up a sacrificial altar. It never cleaned. Only consumed.

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0110010001100010@lemmy.world
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The worst piece of tech that I have ever owned in my life is a CD Cleaner I bought from GameStop back in the day. That shit was straight up a sacrificial altar. It never cleaned. Only consumed.

Oh shit, I remember those. They “cleaned” by using an abrasive spray to “polish” the CDs. Those things were straight-up evil.

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Sanctus@lemmy.world
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Yes! RIP Dinocrisis. My Gauntlet: Dark Legacy survived the process though. Thing still runs today with a fucking trench etched across the bottom, it doesn’t make sense really.

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Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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GameStop

That explains it.

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Ashtear@lemm.ee
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Funny thing is, out of all the disc “cleaners” we sold while I was at Gamestop, we got very few complaints about it. Make the discs look like they went through hell but the product worked.

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ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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Was it a cleaner or one of those “Resurfacing” things with the crank that just scratched the hell out of your discs in a circular pattern?

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Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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You needed to use the lubricant that came with it. I used mine hundreds of times with incredible results.

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ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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Oh I followed all the instructions, used the fluid & all that. Still had to track down a new copy of Street Fighter EX…

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Empricorn@feddit.nl
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Being a teenager I tried it, but it burned.

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Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
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– forgets everything

Many mother boards have a battery on them that is used in retaining state. May need to be replaced.

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Sanctus@lemmy.world
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I checked the CMOS and ended up replacing it. I thought that was it too. Same issue.

I paid 100 bucks for this server 5 years ago, came with 4TBs. Only thing I ever did with it was run private game servers on it for my friends. Maybe I’ll try replacing it again just for laughs and poop.

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