> I ended up deciding to get a small, simple external Thunderbolt SSD enclosure. See this is the problem with the whole minimalism/decluttering/etc. movements:

> I ended up deciding to get a small, simple external Thunderbolt SSD enclosure. See this is the problem with the whole minimalism/decluttering/etc. movements: half the time they are so entrenched in consumerism that they authentically believe that buying this new thing will solve their clutter problem. The author goes on to buy a new cloud storage service that is "a backup power tool for advanced users". And spends all this time doing all this migrating and reorganizing activity that seems an awful lot like work. People in this trap will talk about how minimalism and decluttering are about making their lives easier and simpler, but that's not what I'm seeing happening. This seems harder and more complicated. I don't want to have to be an "advanced user". I fell for this for a while myself, but no longer. I want to be a dumb user. There are other things I want, like security and privacy, and control of my own data, and to his credit the author does mention that, but if that's your goal be focused on that, not this not-quite-sensible form of decluttering I keep seeing popping up.