With seemingly endless data storage, people are 'digital hoarding'
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I'm sorry: if there is a human who can attribute 37% of their total life anxiety to having too many files stored, they probably own a yacht.
What a fantastically stupid sentence.
The researchers then concluded 37% of their total anxiety came from the data stored. How this was reached is missing from this report it seems. Also there should be some sort of uncertainty or confidence interval associated with it.
Automatically you can only download the most recent 100 liked videos. So if you have a huge library first download the list (even Google Takeout supports that), you just need the video IDs then feed it to yt-dlp.
The rest, like quality, are personal preference. Like I usually max at 1080p and never download DASH videos.
When you are up to date you can still automate it. For example download once a week but I pretty much download everything asap even manually because I know Google can remove it quick or even sometimes the uploader.
Yeah, that happened to a channel I loved several years ago [0]. I've been scouring the internet ever since then, looking for mirrors of the channel, and one video in particular [1]. It's a long shot, but maybe you or someone else reading this could help, so I'll leave the links here:
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20151129103353/https://www.youtu...
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20151130132704/https://www.youtu...
You'd be surprised how ephemeral the web is. My favorite YouTube videos from 2010 are all gone, I'm glad I kept a copy.
Their subreddit blurb (jokingly) is quite relevant to the article: "It's a Digital Disease!"
I feel like it's a balance between keeping redundant digital possessions (duplicates, outdated files, unidentifiable artifacts), having a healthy distrust of things persisting in the cloud, and a desire to keep a digital legacy.
(This is a joke of old reddit vs new reddit.)
Good lord. I need to step up!
Jokes aside, I, like others here, realize the surprisingly fragile nature of digital storage, even in the "cloud". I don't hoard things I don't need, I hoard things I know I won't find again in 10-15 years due to algorithm optimization, or a change in public opinion.
This also applies to family photos and videos that I will cherish and, had I not taken the time and effort, would gravely regret not having.
Oh man, I wish there was more written about this. There's quite a lot of content I may be the only remaining possessor of thanks to my (probably tism-related) need to not repeatedly waste bandwidth on things I may as well keep on local storage. There are huge swaths of content that creators have taken offline because it doesn't math their current branding or it had one too many "gamer words" in it. One look through your "Liked" videos on Youtube is enough to turn anybody into a data hoarder.
With a quick search I was able to find 16TB harddrives for sale, so you could easily fit more than 40TB in a single tower. Doesn't sound like their hoarding rises to the level of dysfunctional.
The volume is about the same as it would be with hard disks of 24 to 30 TB per HDD, but the weight and cost is much less.
Yes there is a risk of an item falling in between (being important to you and lost). Don’t worry. There’s other content.
Your point of view is yours and yours only, I believe. You don't have a magic ball to see what is important to others.
Digital hoarding would be more like acquiring masses of TV shows and Music that you never watch. Or saving hundreds of articles to Read-it-Later lists (ahem).
Every year for birthdays we print out the top 100 and make a hardcover keepsake in case digital worlds come crashing down some day.