I tend to either act as a data hoarder, but most of the time end up being overwhelmed with anxiety about having so much data. Even when I just look at my personal photos, I just feel impeding doom knowing it can only grow and grow, it will never get smaller.
I was wondering if this had a term.
And coming from this question, I am just amazed by this community. What has prompted your interest in data hoarding?
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A cloud storage user.
Well my girlfriend not only deletes every email and empties the trash in her mailbox daily, she also throws away every piece of paper she receives. This has often led to problems (e.g. wanted to check and see if email again or needed a receipt to exchange something). However she says that those inconveniences are better than having to store all the stuff.
My motivation? I guess deep down a fear of loss, buy also just the good feeling of having stuff ready in case I need it one day.
A Spotify user.
Data Marie Kondo? Does this Linux ISO spark joy?
A data eschewer
cloud service?
Data consumer.
I always hope the Pied Piper guy will come and I will be able to fit it all in one hand. One day, one day…
To answer you - don’t be a martyr of your data. Find a balance. I chose to save everything, but compress the hell out of it. I.e. I save all photos from my phone, but compress them to 1080p and <= 1MB Jpeg. Because I don’t need the tiny details from photos, I just want to keep memories.
Oppenheimer 2160x webrip
Destroyer Of Worlds
Yeah, the ‘you own nothing and you will be happy’ people.
Right before I got into archiving data I was doing my best to get away from technology and needless things that I “rely on” in general.
Now I’m more reliant on the Internet and technology than ever 🙃
I was just about to write you can spot them because they use spotify and netflix and other streaming services almost exclusively and if you ask them where that document is they have no clue and retrieve it from Excel’s history.
This makes me uneasy. I have colleagues like this. They have 40 open tabs, and none of their desktop icons are even in a grid… With stuff literally overlapping.
I call these desktops a “Layer 8 collage”.
I feel called out on the number of open tabs but hey gotta put that RAM to good use.
Seriously now, if I’m researching something the number of tabs just explodes to several hundreds. To be in line with the data hoarder principles I do save and organise the data so it’s accessible offline but damn it can become quite annoying to manage at some point.
There are a lot of people like this. It’s probably not bad. Less to clutter your mind if it doesn’t bother you.
This is my wife. Until we married my wife would even save sms. Would clean everything she hated to have stuff particularly in her phone. It wasn’t until I showed her the benefits of having something like Google photos to easily search for things
Datarded
DataWaster
There sure are and you see it in the video piracy community all the time. You have guys that love giant episodes, and then people download the same episode at the same resolutions that is 1/10 the size! I can’t imagine watching a 200 to 300mb episode of a 44 minute show. Personally I would rather watch something on BluRay most of the time over streaming due to the low quality of so many movies on major streaming providers.
theres usually reasons.
First, people may still be used to getting charged insane amounts of money for internet bandwidth. Download limits and overage charges are a real problem, especially for phones.
Download speeds. Downloading a 4k movie can take hours where the 1080p could be a few minutes.
People may not have a ton of storage space. The choice is between one 4k movie, or ten 1080p movies.
There’s no need for retention. You’re downloading a movie for yourself, not for archiving. There’s no need for the HD version.
Tech. If you don’t have a 4k monitor, the 4k resolution is wasted.
Quality. Just because the file is bigger doesn’t mean it’s higher quality. If the show was produced at 1080p, upscaling it to 4k doesn’t actually increase the quality. I’ve downloaded 4k anime that was upscaled from 1080p and it actually was worse quality because it had a few corrupted artefacts. Corruption on a couple frames throughout the movie because the upscaling wasn’t done perfectly and you wouldn’t catch it unless you sat to watch the whole thing.
If you don’t have a 4k monitor, the 4k resolution is wasted
This is usually incorrect in practice since 1080p uploads rarely have enough bitrate to match a 1080p monitor. Resolution is not that important, but bitrate is
I mean, I have shit eyesight and I grew up with videotape then DVDs. Visually sumptuous things like House of the Dragon, yes, I want that in 1080p, I can appreciate the difference enough for that, but 720p seems perfectly serviceable to me for ordinary things. (I have finally tracked down and replaced my very old 480p shows, though).
Dataphobic