If you’re worried about such people try deriks boot and nuke Https://dban.org. Source: 11 months ago

Presuming you want to sell it with windows running, first make a Window boot disk so you can recover. Then use DBAN (https://dban.org/) to completely wipe the drive. Then reinstall Windows up to the setup stage. The new owner will experience it as a new computer. Source: 11 months ago

An alternative to Parted is DBAN Darik's Boot and Nuke We use this for most full Drive wipes Https://dban.org/. Source: 11 months ago

I do love all the creative ways to completely destroy a drive, but in general you should just be able to use DBAN if you just want to wipe the drive to make data recovery near impossible, but still be able to use it afterwards. Source: 12 months ago

You have a few options. The easiest in my opinion is just to smash the hard drives (assuming you don't want to reuse or sell them). Otherwise I use DBAN for permanently wiping HDDs: https://dban.org/ Try using your motherboard's UEFI BIOS for SSD or maybe even the manufacturer's utility if you have one. Source: about 1 year ago

Use a tool like Internet-in-a-box and keep a "local" version of tons of very useful stuff like Wikipedia and Maps. Source: 6 months ago

Internet-in-a-box is a Free, Open source offline internet tool. Its a step up from having an offline wikipedia copy, it has a lot of Ebooks, and a offline version of Khan academedy youtube videos, and more etc. Source: 12 months ago

#1: iFixit is now available for offline use #2: Internet-in-a-Box - an Offline copy of the best of the Internet (Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Khan Academy, Stack Exchange, ETC) | 2 comments #3: Where There Is No Doctor - a village health care handbook | 2 comments. Source: 12 months ago

IMO the best use case is https://internet-in-a-box.org/. You download a bunch of stuff like Wikipedia, videos, books, etc, and any device with WiFi can access them. Much better than relying on something like a laptop or old phone with all of these resources on them. Get a couple of Raspberry Pi's and some SD cards and you can clone them all and have lots of backups. They are small and use little power so you can... Source: 12 months ago

This is awesome, but for those of us that don't feel like spending ~$1200... May I suggest internet in a box. Source: 12 months ago