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?
The end user who frequently asks if their data can please please be retrieved
Wouldn’t that be most people? Casually consuming media and just downloading onto their one laptop every once in a while.
The data minimalist is going to be so bored when the zombie apocalypse/crash of the economy/Mad Maxx in real life starts and they don’t have a PB of TV Shows and movies to keep them entertained over the next 80-100 years. Lol
It’s called Yahoo.com. Every archivist on the Internet gets Vietnam War flashbacks whenever one of their websites shows up in the news.
I use TailsOS as my daily driver, with persistent storage disabled.
I am not sure whether there’s an official term for it (though dataphobe comes to mind, but it seems a little off), but there are a lot of minimalists when it comes to data. Probably the kinds of people that handle info that are sensitive and has to be purged frequently. Well, that or the person doesn;t really care about the files and only keeps what s/he needs.
As much as it’s a goal of mine to hoard, I kinda do not have as huge as the storages of the other people here, but I tend to keep free indie games I could find, even demos sometimes, and some obscure alternative software for certain paid apps. Usual reason for the hoard is for offline use; I do not want a cloud-only environment.
You should rest easy then knowing that at any moment the drive could break and lose everything. It will delete stuff for you.
There are people who constantly pay for movies, music, and other data but constantly lose it or don’t keep track of it. Only to buy it again and again. They also subscribe to multiple streaming services.
I’m 72, I would have loved the convenience of photos that we have today. Have some photos of youth, but cameras, film, developing, cost, etc was a pain. And even then quality of photos weren’t that great.
DataPurger. I like to save the meaningful/useful stuff, but I don’t keep everything for the sake of it. I try to have an efficient workflow during content creation, and purge the unwanted stuff straight away.
A Buddhist. Everything is in a state of impermanence.
A cloud storage user.
A Marie Kondo script.
One of my old housemates had a very organised data collection. One of his forms of catharsis was to go on a deleting spree. If he had a bad day, or an argument at work, or got pwned by fourteen year-olds in CS too much, he’d take it out on his meticulous data directory.
Yes, that would be my friend. The dude HATE having anything on his PC. When I say hate I mean HATE, it’s so bad to the point where he has a portable version of vlc on his google drive that he downloads every time he wants to watch something and then delete it afterwards. It’s portable for fuck’s sake just leave it.