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Why even bother, besides the fact that it’s fun to tinker with storage and backup solutions?

When’s the last time you looked at any of that stuff? If it was all deleted today, what would you honestly miss most? Save that and forget about everything else.




its a good question. i accumulate so many temporary images saved from day to day internet usage that at the end of the year there's just thousands and thousands of files. i started a ritual a few years ago where i would comb through all of my 'temp' images throughout the year and pick my favorite and turn it into a slideshow; for me that's been the best way of taking my favorite images, doing something with them, then not having to think about it any more. heres one from 2021 [0]

[0] https://telnet.asia/abc/2021.html




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