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The article touches on this issue by pointing out that: >The Cloud is what happens when the cost of storing data is less than the cost of figuring out what to
by InsideOutSanta 2y ago
The article touches on this issue by pointing out that:
>The Cloud is what happens when the cost of storing data is less than the cost of figuring out what to do with the crap
But I think that's wrong. The actual issue is that you often can't figure out "what to do with the crap" because the difference between useful data and crap data is determined at the point in time when you need it, not when you store it.
I'm relatively careful with deleting data, but even so, there were countless instances where I thought something was no longer needed and deleted it, only to figure out that, a month later, I needed it after all.
Also, the article has a few anecdotes like this:
>Scottish Enterprise had 753 pages on its website, with 47 pages getting 80% of visits
But that is completely orthogonal to the question of what is "crap." The fact that some data is rarely needed does not mean it's crap. If anything, the fact that it is rarely needed might make it more valuable because it might make it less likely that the same data can be found elsewhere.
- ghaff 2y agoI do cull photos and docs but it takes effort and you will make mistakes. On the other hand, intelligent culling makes it easier to find things. It’s a trade off especially with digital where there’s not that much cost associated with holding onto things relative to the physical world. My whole house is basically in storage because of a kitchen fire and I’m planning to be pretty selective about what I move back in.
- InsideOutSanta 2y ago>intelligent culling makes it easier to find things That's true, but things get easier to find over time. I have thousands of digital photographs from the 1990s that I burned on CDs and then copied to a NAS later. Today, for the first time, they're actually searchable because they're now indexed in Immich. So they're sorted by the person in them and searchable by their contents. If I had culled the photos back then, I would have lost many photos that have become searchable (and thus valuable) only recently.
- ghaff 2y agoAnd geoencoding on especially phone photos makes manual metadata entry less important. I still there’s value to culling redundant and bad photos.