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へゆりの住人(´・ω・`)
2023/08/21(Mon)02:18:50
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Having spent a collective 2 decades on the internet, I have naturally saved loads of stuff over the years. Pictures, graphics, movies, random shit ive saved from imageboards, groupchats, irc logs, lists of addresses, old passwords, everything. One of my lifelong fears was losing all this one day, so I was always very militaristic about backups and data-safekeeping.
Today, I decided to do away with all of it. None of it matters, really. 99% of I never, ever look at. Digital hoarding is pointless, and really just is a psychological anchor to your computer. I deleted almost everything except a few sentimental things that I actually do like to look at over the years, and downsized my harddrive from my old 4TB, to a 1tb, which is enough for everything I have plus a few games (and I still have 640gb left over).
I also started nofap a month or so ago, so deleting all the random pr0n (or at least, triggers) that was scattered across my computer has probably saved me at some point.
Getting rid of all this.. e-junk, really changed how I view my computer and the time i spend on it. Did I mention bookmarks? I used to have a huge bookmarks tab where I kept easy access to all the sites I use (including heyuri!). I deleted that too. If I need to go somewhere, I ought to have the will to type it in.
TL;DR: Over the years, you save an enourmous amount of junk that just weighs you down, whether you realize it or not. I think getting rid of it has helped me alot.
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へゆりの住人(´・ω・`)
2023/08/21(Mon)04:08:15
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I'm also a digital hoarder. I've got hundreds of gigabytes of stuff I almost never look at. but somehow, just thinking about all the stuff I have makes me feel nice, so I won't delete it yet
(´ー`)
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へゆりの住人(´・ω・`)
2023/08/21(Mon)04:29:27
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It's useful for impressing and trading with other netizens
ヽ(´ー`)ノ
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へゆりの住人(´・ω・`)
2023/08/21(Mon)06:13:00
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The best part about digital hoarding is where you have a folder path like
/archive/archived/files/old_files/archive/old_home/photos/picsv2/pics/old_pics/archive
ヽ(´ー`)ノ
ヽ(´ー`)ノ
ヽ(´ー`)ノ
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へゆりの住人(´・ω・`)
2023/08/21(Mon)17:23:52
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I don't hoard but agreed. I have few "archives" of mostly oekaki and other old Japanese art which makes few gigs at most, but rarely even look at them
Maybe if I had the chance (by chance I mean big storage and finding them on internets) would "hoard" gaems (eroge) I can return (fap) to even after finishing them if that counts, but that's about it
(´・ω・`)
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へゆりの住人(´・ω・`)
2023/08/21(Mon)17:28:53
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I always save anime i watch, as I things could get harder and harder as internet get stricter.
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へゆりの住人(´・ω・`)
2023/08/21(Mon)20:43:28
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internet archive exists, y'know
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へゆりの住人(´・ω・`)
2023/08/21(Mon)20:49:37
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I download all my anime, so transfer it to an harddrive doesn't take a lot of effort. And I mostly download it in blu ray etc.
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へゆりの住人(´・ω・`)
2023/08/22(Tue)13:43:26
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>>6473
Does internet archive accept gigabytes of gay furry porn?
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へゆりの住人(´・ω・`)
2023/08/22(Tue)16:49:23
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>>6473
For now... You never know what might happen when you least expect it, y'know
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へゆりの住人(´・ω・`)
2023/08/23(Wed)00:36:02
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My primary computer, which is a laptop, only has 118 GB of storage. That really helps me to keep only the random crap that I truly treasure. The downside to that is every time I want to play a large game from Steam for example, I have to delete stuff or offload a bunch of my crap to a USB or other computer, so now that I think about it I still do have a hoarding problem, it's just all strewn across multiple computers and drives
(-_-)
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へゆりの住人(´・ω・`)
2023/08/23(Wed)22:25:27
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I'm a vintage software hoarder. Old programs, operating systems, kernels, word processors, languages, documentation, games, random crap on old floppy disks, BIOS files, scanned copies of punch cards etc. I save it all. I have 16 TBs of storage so far and I soon will add more.
One day I will download teh entire internets
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へゆりの住人(´・ω・`)
2023/08/23(Wed)23:12:01
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>>6498
better than just deleting your decades-old digital collection, y'know
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へゆりの住人(´・ω・`)
2023/08/24(Thu)02:41:37
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God bless the Internet
2AM, feeling restless~
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