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a decade? no offense, especially if you're a millennial - ten years isn't that long. I have hundreds of compact disks approaching three times that old. "ad hoc

a decade? no offense, especially if you're a millennial - ten years isn't that long. I have hundreds of compact disks approaching three times that old. "ad hoc torrent" sounds great, but you're at the whims of seeds, and cease and desist letters. This also doesn't take into account monthly bandwidth "caps". There's somethings i have for background noise and visuals that i got on YT - what, i should stream it every time? even at 480p this will eat into monthly caps. What about things where i know i have one of the only full (as in needs no fills) copies of some media from the 1990s? Less than 5% of the stuff i keep is contemporaneous with the download date. If one is just downloading "current" things and then figuring out how to store more of it; then i 100% agree. That's a waste of space and time. Chances are you're paying for the right to stream it, and if you don't care about caps, burn the shareholder money for all i care by streaming it whenever you want to see it. Ideally at 4k. I'll keep downloading and storing stuff i find important - someday when/if youtube deletes some channels i have backed up, or a production company pulls all their content off of streaming platforms, or a different archive with convoluted steps to access content ceases to exist - i'll still have it, with subtitle files, searchable, locally. It happens a lot more often than you think.

dbtc 2y ago
You sound less like a "media hoarder" and more like an Archivist.
- genewitch 2y ago
  that's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.
BLKNSLVR 2y ago
I'm not an avid youtube watcher, but there was a specific user-made video to a rare version of a song that I used to keep coming back to. It's not on Youtube any more. That version of the song isn't even on youtube any more. I'm fairly lazy / procrastinatey when it comes to things like that, but thank f*ck I yt-dlp'd it (and really not too long before it was taken down - and I don't know why and can't track down why or who made the clip). Maybe I need to do a search to see if other people are looking for it... And if anyone cares to know: The Mountains of Madness CD1 (I think) version Idalah Abal by John Zorn / Electric Masada, and the film clip was a bunch of still of various, mostly fringe, some quite gross/confronting art pieces. For me, it fits beautifully with the phrenetic music. I think there's a big, thick, mental health-related line that separates an archivist from a hoarder. Edit: OK, there are more versions the song on yt, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swpvDV6Qvik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swpvDV6Qvik, but that custom film-clip ain't. Edit 2: Wrong on both counts, my search-fu ain't what it used to be. It's still there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9jk6lolne8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9jk6lolne8 There was a good couple of years it didn't float to the surface of any unchanged search query. Cool story bro, pity it makes your argument eat itself... sigh.
- genewitch 2y ago
  one of the reasons i try and remember to download playlists or all videos from a channel in at least 480p dates back when a zen landscaper/lawn maint/mower guy's videos got wiped because people doxxed his clients. He was, to us, the audio-visual equivalent of an anti-anxiety medication. He had a "dingo" style mower, where you stand on an articulating platform; behind something that looks like the things they use to wax/clean floors in markets with tile floors. I hadn't seen many (if any) videos, prior to his, where someone would go "clean up" around either abandoned or neglected properties (like a rental off season or something) - weed-eating the sidewalks and shoveling. It's more common now, i see several different creators doing similar videos now; and things like powerwashing driveways, the carpet ones (those are pretty zen if you like gross, unidentifiable liquids), and a few others. The closest thing i've found to his stuff is Andrew Camarata (@ on YT), but their videos are much louder in general. anyhow, all this to say - it spurred me into action. I started using "home server" stuff shortly after.
netsharc 2y ago
You just made me play the first MP3 I ever downloaded, Tubthumping by Chumbawamba. Downloaded over 56k modem in the 90's. The timestamp on it is 2006, I guess I edited the ID3 tags on it at that point.

dbtc 2y ago

You sound less like a "media hoarder" and more like an Archivist.

genewitch 2y ago
that's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.

BLKNSLVR 2y ago

I'm not an avid youtube watcher, but there was a specific user-made video to a rare version of a song that I used to keep coming back to. It's not on Youtube any more. That version of the song isn't even on youtube any more. I'm fairly lazy / procrastinatey when it comes to things like that, but thank f*ck I yt-dlp'd it (and really not too long before it was taken down - and I don't know why and can't track down why or who made the clip). Maybe I need to do a search to see if other people are looking for it... And if anyone cares to know: The Mountains of Madness CD1 (I think) version Idalah Abal by John Zorn / Electric Masada, and the film clip was a bunch of still of various, mostly fringe, some quite gross/confronting art pieces. For me, it fits beautifully with the phrenetic music. I think there's a big, thick, mental health-related line that separates an archivist from a hoarder. Edit: OK, there are more versions the song on yt, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swpvDV6Qvik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swpvDV6Qvik, but that custom film-clip ain't. Edit 2: Wrong on both counts, my search-fu ain't what it used to be. It's still there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9jk6lolne8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9jk6lolne8 There was a good couple of years it didn't float to the surface of any unchanged search query. Cool story bro, pity it makes your argument eat itself... sigh.

genewitch 2y ago
one of the reasons i try and remember to download playlists or all videos from a channel in at least 480p dates back when a zen landscaper/lawn maint/mower guy's videos got wiped because people doxxed his clients. He was, to us, the audio-visual equivalent of an anti-anxiety medication. He had a "dingo" style mower, where you stand on an articulating platform; behind something that looks like the things they use to wax/clean floors in markets with tile floors. I hadn't seen many (if any) videos, prior to his, where someone would go "clean up" around either abandoned or neglected properties (like a rental off season or something) - weed-eating the sidewalks and shoveling. It's more common now, i see several different creators doing similar videos now; and things like powerwashing driveways, the carpet ones (those are pretty zen if you like gross, unidentifiable liquids), and a few others. The closest thing i've found to his stuff is Andrew Camarata (@ on YT), but their videos are much louder in general. anyhow, all this to say - it spurred me into action. I started using "home server" stuff shortly after.

netsharc 2y ago

You just made me play the first MP3 I ever downloaded, Tubthumping by Chumbawamba. Downloaded over 56k modem in the 90's. The timestamp on it is 2006, I guess I edited the ID3 tags on it at that point.