It's gone to the void, it especially likes small important things and socks

I lost a wasp to my floor once... a wasp flew into my office room (im very scared of them, so i legged it). i got some wasp spray and waited at the doornway until i saw it again.

I (in a terrified flailing of an attempt) manage to get right up tinit and spray it for a few seconds and backed away to the door again.

I watched it crawl across my desk and go behind a little stack of books and didn't see it come back out.

I cautiously and tentatively crept in to look for it and looked behind the books, and it wasn't there. I looked behind the desk, which is fixed in place and rests on a set of drawa but has a gap at rhe back between it and the wall. I can't see it down there. I got under the desk and checked everywhere. i couldn't get the angle with my head, so i stuck my phone back there and took pictures of the space behind the drawers. It wasn't there. I even found one of these hard drive screws.

I have never found it, and im almost willing to accept. i made it up because i go mental with boredom when im working from home.

The other one is somehow 15 feet away under the most difficult thing in the room to access.

This is why I bought a magnetic bowl. Every time I have to use screws I set them in it no matter how big they are.

NVME screw: phases outside of our dimension before even reaching the floor

Also I really want to know why this can't be tapped for a standard case screw or even a chassis thumbscrew. Been pissing me off since msata and nvme even became a thing. Such great storage and it can't be mounted with a standard @!#%^ing screw that everything else uses WHY?

I've dropped a screw and spent a good amount of time looking for it only to find it in my pocket later, mostly because I work in a smock that has big front pockets so now it's my first check when I drop a screw

Exactly. Just had to buy a hundred pack of M3 screws for drives.

This is the reason I've taken to carrying a small magnet with me (combined with a flashlight/blacklight/laser pointer), so I can easily pick up those little bits that get lost (my wife cross stitches too, and sometimes her needles fall into the carpet, so it's nice to find those before our feet do).

Strong flashlight. Even in a well light room, getting down there and moving a flashlight around will reveal little screws your eye wouldn't have ever noticed without the changing contrast and reflections.

Just use a magnet.

You'll find that other one in your neighbor's yard

My motherboard has been on with 3 screws since 2020. Definitely not because my carpet eats screws or anything. Trust me.

Always to remember to vacum the floor after a pc build to get rid of excessive screws

I depend more and more on gravity to keep my PC parts in place.

I keep them all in a little Tupperware so they don't roll all over the place. And then I am real careful not to knock the Tupperware off the table.

Let me call my buddy down here, he's an expert in screwing stuff.

It is more amazing when a single screw falls, and it just falls into some portal to hell knows what dimension, while the floor is pretending hard that it has nothing to do with it. That's why it is sometimes called a hard floor.

The you find it in a spot you've looked over thoroughly multiple multiple times 😠

Luckily two us all you need...the rest are just for redundancy.

Someone explain pls i feel (or am) stoopid

I have OCD, whenever I take apart tiny screws from something, I watch where they are like a hawk.