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I should have culled those photos

I'm feeling a bit more at ease today with regards to web browsers.

Re (previous post): Browsers and life choices

Reflecting on that "heavy" feeling turned my attention to my personal storage, which I think may be one of the more fundamental factors underpinning my anxiety. I've decided to make a project out of culling my hoarded files down from 368GB to 350GB by the end of the year.

A small step, but probably cathartic and long overdue. I have so many photos from the last... almost 20 years? Crikey, how old am I now :X I found pictures of people who are no longer in my life, for sad reasons as well as reasons I'm very thankful for. I found pictures of the person I used to be, who I'm gladly not anymore. It's really nice to be 15kg heavier, stronger and more at ease with life*.

(* I realise the irony of saying this in a post talking about my anxieties over data and software performance lol)

ANYWAY, I'm not sure why I never culled those photos way back when, after breakups and events and such. It's not like I was hanging onto them out of wanting to remember.

But maybe I held on because I was scared to forget. Something like an emotional FOMO and wanting to guard my future self against possible sadness. Which is silly, really. I've had whole hard drive failures before and not given a crap about what I lost. (That said, I'd hate to have one now bc I have a lot of work related stuff that would devastate me to have to re-do.)

Also, I think I held onto them because there was just so much data to go through that I didn't bother. I was ramping up to my heyday of thinking, "oh this data is just my life, I'll trust $TECH_COMPANY to store it for me". Whereas now, I'm like, "hey, this data was generated from my life, I better exercise some oversight and governance and not be a rude digital tourist who leaves trash all over the cloud.

So there's four months left of the year and I have 18GB to vaporise, which means I need to clear 4.5GB each month to make my target. By the end of September, I need to be at 363.5GB to be able to say I'm on track.

No worries. NO WORRIES. I can do this. ~Jiayou~

Stuff I've read lately

How I use SDF in daily life by agk

The Toothpaste Argument for Universal Basic Income

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