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I work on the basis that nearly nothing I have is of much value when I die. I aggressively prune my data on an ongoing basis as I'm doing it. Any bill over st
by b5 9y ago
I work on the basis that nearly nothing I have is of much value when I die. I aggressively prune my data on an ongoing basis as I'm doing it. Any bill over store years old, I delete; any unflagged email over three years old, I delete. I'm keen to proactively reduce the overhead of dealing with this stuff myself and for those I leave behind. I keep very little in the way of ephemera, and generally scan important letters and shred/recycle the originals.
I store all of my logins in pass[1], and have the store synced in Dropbox. My will has the password for my GPG key and my Dropbox in it. I realise that's a potential security hole, but the copies are sealed and held at home and with a trusted friend, so I consider it relatively minimal.
I also print out all of the important photos I've taken. It's a pretty low-tech solution, but it's a proven one: I have albums and photos from both sets of grandparents and great-grandparents precisely because a hardcopy photo doesn't need software to use.
[1]: https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/