Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes

Post by ilyt » Sun, Apr 16, 2023, 11:22 AM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #40

xmddmx wrote: post #25

Regarding Arq backup: if you are worried about using a proprietary (enrypted) and closed-source backup format in case the company were to go under, they have an open source command-line restore tool: https://github.com/arqbackup/arq_restore I've been using Arq for years, but I need to look into the "Glacier Deep Archive" format which is about 1/20th the cost of the fastest storage class.

I always find it interesting to compare 4TB/month pricing against buying N 4TB hard drives yourself, where N is the desired redundancy. Typically, you could buy a fresh set of hard drives 2-3x per year for the "standard" (they don't even call it "premium") storage tier. A normal drive lasts 5 years: go figure. (The markup was about double ten years ago, so it has gotten more competitive already.) Of course, that's no…

Post by deafpolygon » Sun, Apr 16, 2023, 11:27 AM UTC

bombcar wrote: post #61

TRiG_Ireland wrote: post #27

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My Downloads folder is one of the few that actually is clean. In fact, it's usually empty. Everything downloaded is downloaded for a reason, and gets moved to the right spot as soon as the download is complete.

Every year or so I make a folder in Downloads called “old” and put everything in there (including the “old” from the last time I did it). When I find something I need in Downloads/old/old/older/old I am happy.

Post by jacquesm » Sun, Apr 16, 2023, 11:29 AM UTC

vertis wrote: post #110

jacquesm wrote: post #102

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Funny, I wish for the opposite: to be able to forget more effectively.

I guess that's one way of looking at it. You still want to remember the important things though. Memories are funny in that they can be highly contextual. So a picture you took in Copenhagen, however bad/amateur the actual picture can be a hook for all the great times you had in Copenhagen. It's one of the interesting side-effects of being a digital nomad. When you're in one place and doing the same thing every day i…

Post by bombcar » Sun, Apr 16, 2023, 11:46 AM UTC

boosteri wrote: post #116

bombcar wrote: post #61

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Every year or so I make a folder in Downloads called “old” and put everything in there (including the “old” from the last time I did it). When I find something I need in Downloads/old/old/older/old I am happy.

Anyone figured out how to do that most efficiently? You can't have two "old" co-existign at the same time? I'm using the rename method but struggle each time Which one is better to rename, the old-old or the new-old?

Post by sublinear » Sun, Apr 16, 2023, 12:15 PM UTC

zamnos wrote: post #79

sublinear wrote: post #67

Am I the only one who hates having to keep anything? As a kid I would go out of my way to not be in photos, and as an adult it's furniture and appliances. If it's important it's probably somewhere in my email, but wanting to deliberately store personal data locally or in the cloud makes my eyes roll. Who cares?

Your friends and family after you're gone. It'll alleviate some of their grief.