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Honestly, I'm a real proponent of keeping a clean digital life. I practice 0 inbox, aggressively delete old documents, photos on a regular basis. If I haven't t

Honestly, I'm a real proponent of keeping a clean digital life. I practice 0 inbox, aggressively delete old documents, photos on a regular basis. If I haven't touched anything in a few years, the chances that I'm going to need it later on down the line are slim and so off they go. Important documents like tax info etc, are obviously kept for the minimum legal period but then again they don't take up all that much space. I've been doing this for around 10 years now and so far I have not had any problems with missing old stuff, _touchwood_. Long story short, just delete stuff you don't need altogether, makes backups a breeze and frees you from worrying about hackers exposing your musings from when you were a teenager :)

sneak 6y ago
I have a 900GB FLAC music library, because cloud music services can disappear tracks down the memory hole from the middle of your playlists your now-dead loved ones made for you years ago[1], and also because they simply don't have a lot of the latest/newest interesting/underground music in their cloud catalogs. Also: nostromo:~/Pictures$ du -sh LightroomMasters 1.5T LightroomMasters nostromo:~/Pictures$ find LightroomMasters -type f | wc -l 207655 nostromo:~/Pictures$ ls -1d LightroomMasters/* | sort -n | head -1 LightroomMasters/1997 nostromo:~/Pictures$ I've been taking photographs of events in my life for a long time, and I look at them regularly, which brings me joy. Sometimes I send loved ones photos I took of them 3, 5, 10, 15 years ago that they've never seen, and it brings them joy as well. There are different paths, and digital minimalism is only suitable for a subset of the population. Many of us derive immense value from having high fidelity records of our lives and the lives of those close to us. Also, if you store your historical data for a long time, you can do super cool shit like this: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life/ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-ana... [1]: In case you can't tell, this happened to me.
imhoguy 6y ago
Depends what means old document. My 8 years old induction stove glass surface broke by accident and I got full price money back from my home insurance. They were ok with photos of the device and pdf purchase receipt from my email archive.

sneak 6y ago

I have a 900GB FLAC music library, because cloud music services can disappear tracks down the memory hole from the middle of your playlists your now-dead loved ones made for you years ago[1], and also because they simply don't have a lot of the latest/newest interesting/underground music in their cloud catalogs. Also: nostromo:~/Pictures$ du -sh LightroomMasters 1.5T LightroomMasters nostromo:~/Pictures$ find LightroomMasters -type f | wc -l 207655 nostromo:~/Pictures$ ls -1d LightroomMasters/* | sort -n | head -1 LightroomMasters/1997 nostromo:~/Pictures$ I've been taking photographs of events in my life for a long time, and I look at them regularly, which brings me joy. Sometimes I send loved ones photos I took of them 3, 5, 10, 15 years ago that they've never seen, and it brings them joy as well. There are different paths, and digital minimalism is only suitable for a subset of the population. Many of us derive immense value from having high fidelity records of our lives and the lives of those close to us. Also, if you store your historical data for a long time, you can do super cool shit like this: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life/ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-ana... [1]: In case you can't tell, this happened to me.

imhoguy 6y ago

Depends what means old document. My 8 years old induction stove glass surface broke by accident and I got full price money back from my home insurance. They were ok with photos of the device and pdf purchase receipt from my email archive.