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Hematite (about a meter tall) (lemmy.nz)
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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

Looks painful. You should see a doctor.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I used to use a program to visualize my file system use that looked EXACTLY like this!

Edit: Disk Inventory X https://www.derlien.com/

But also WinDirStat looks the same. I don’t know or care who was first.

[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago

⛏️🧙🏻‍♂️ I'm sure I can get more than just 4 iron bars out of that smelting job.

[–] FernMD@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

It's not a tumor!

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reminds me of Galaxy Quest. What was that? Beryllium?

[–] LongLive@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

BTW super toxic metal

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Doesn't sound like a fun way to go either.