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I feel like a lot of the concerns are not applicable by the fact that unlike a real life hoard, it's really really easy to find almost anything digitally regard
by Raidion 6y ago
I feel like a lot of the concerns are not applicable by the fact that unlike a real life hoard, it's really really easy to find almost anything digitally regardless of how it's organized.
You can totally spend a lot of time making sure stuff is categorized in the right folders. Anyone who has had an illicit mp3 collection has probably spent a ton of time doing just that. However, that's less relevant today, and for documents and pictures, I can basically just chuck them in a folder then search by date, location, or even person in them without a ton of effort. Full text searches are fast at the "these are my documents" scale, and the price of storage is cheaper than a nice meal at a restaurant per year.
I'm able to keep almost everything, store it for pennies a week, find what I want instantly, and spend almost no time doing any of that. I feel like going through a decluttering would spark less joy than tossing everything into a folder and going on with my life.
- buildbot 6y agoFinding the best tools to mine your data take some work, but once you do, it scales for a long time! Unlike physical hoarding, which unless you are very rich, rapidly runs into limits and causes many negative side effects.