Don’t feel bad. It is impossible to see every post and it wasn’t even in this sub. It was in the dull_mens_club com. The post was fun though.

Edit: Said post is here: https://lemmy.world/post/48517371

They were making a joke (from your work/fork typo) based off a previous post here this week about forklift certification. “Fork certified” is where they were going.

It’s only temporary, unless it works.

I remember working on sendmail back in the day. I had skills then, but mastering sendmail would elevate you to be the guru on the mountain. I struggled to the foothills and managed enough to maintain it, only scratching the surface. There was and is a lot there. The O’reilly sendmail book was the thickest of my collection and I might even still have it.

IMO, if you ever hear the click-of-death on a disk whatever you do to get it going is purely to gain access and extract the data. That disk is a spinning dead man.

Pop the disk into the freezer for a few hours (or a day). It has to be long enough for the components to all get cold. This shrinks the materials and could possibly unstick heads from the platters. I think it has worked two out of four attempts for me. This is a method to get access to the data of which you should extract as soon as possible.

Be cautious of condensation on the cold disk as it could potentially arc circuitry.

If it is hosed, can always dead drop it from one banana worth of height on a table to see if the drive heads unlock, then try again.

Or try the freezer trick. It has been many years, but it has worked for me.