Not exactly the most eco friendly option, but if it's getting close to upgrade time anyway, can you consolidate any of it? Just sell most of it and get less bu

Not exactly the most eco friendly option, but if it's getting close to upgrade time anyway, can you consolidate any of it? Just sell most of it and get less bulky replacements? Do you need multiple laptops or will VMs do plus maybe 1 backup laptop? I think I would either want to have a cloud backup of everything, or at least 2 copies, 1 by plane and 1 by mail. Traveling with irreplaceable data seems pretty scary. Then again I would be much more worried about something getting lost than any security concerns. I personally don't encrypt drives other than a few specific folders, but I assume that most HN readers would want to.