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...and it's going well. Since the weekend, I've brought my usage from 368GB down to 362GB.
Just think, 6 gigabytes of photos I never looked at, stopped caring about, didn't need anymore, stashed away in a private vault of no use to anyone.
I've uploaded the ones with decent stock potential to a photo sharing site, licensed under CC BY-SA. It doesn't solve the problem of taking up space on a hard drive in a warehouse somewhere, but this way at least they can be of use to another human being. Hopefully a non-evil human being.
I wonder now if they should have been shared under CC BY or CC0. I may never use them, may never have them help me pay my bills, so why place restrictions on someone else being able to do something with it? Maybe this argument is moot. I'm sure if someone wanted to capitalise on those photos without crediting, they're gonna do it anyway most likely in such a fashion that I'd have no idea it's happening.
Among the photos (not shared), I found ones of myself from a very, very long time ago. I was 15kg lighter, very unhappy, and stuck in a relationship that might have eventually driven me to a dark fate. Ironically, a lot of the things that people flag as "life ruining" probably ended up saving mine. It was because I got into "bad kids" stuff like drugs and alcohol that I could see how "toxically good" my life and trajectory were.
I'm not big on drugs and alcohol now, but back then they were a strangely healthy influence on me. I didn't rely on them, I've never been addicted to them, but having them intrude into in my life balanced out all the strait-laced influences. I guess you could say they let see more of the landscape so I wasn't scared to take steps forward in a direction I could choose for myself.
Well, thank you, old photos, for reminding me to stop and appreciate this. I delete you with much gratitude.
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