I will keep adding an /archive folder to every PC I own and copy the complete contents of my previous /home/ folder into it, including an endless amount of recursive /archive folders.
I will never look at any of those again. But Archeologists in the far future will find my data and it will revolutionize their understanding of our time.
And with storage still growing decently, why should i delete anything? It's not like physical boxes of photos/etc that would take up more and more space every year.
Indeed the emotional value of said sometimes silly things can't be understated
Not strictly useful I guess, I think there's value in being able to engage in one's old projects more deeply than screenshots can allow. It can be a bit of a trip to look at code I wrote 5-10+ years ago.
13 years and counting. But I’m sure I’ll eventually clean mine up
Getting vicuna or alpaca for this could be the best decision for those that want to keep their data.
Could you imagine the space saving you can achieve by a system that constructs a real normalized duckdb database with zstd compression and join tables and all from your big dump of tar.xml.gz files? Automagically converting all of your media to AV1 and Opus to save space and remove any private codec reqs? Clear collation with directory choices similar to Linux style?
https://github.com/jjuliano/aifiles seems like one of the best ideas for data organization - just needs some polishing and local-only models
The same plan with regards to tagging my thousands of photos worked out great! Without me needing to anything else, auto-tagging has gotten good enough that I can find images that had been lost under some IMG_xxxx.JPG filename for years. I'm looking forward to being able to explore my history onion of folders at my leisure soon enough. :)
When I find something I need in Downloads/old/old/older/old I am happy.
mv Downloads old && mkdir Downloads && mv old Downloads
This is assuming there aren’t any special permissions/attributes on Downloads
Stuff I download for a reason gets “put away” which leaves random things to go look at when I have nothing better to do. I was poking around in there earlier today after I moved some stuff and found all sorts of interesting things to waste a couple hours.
Probably be a different story if I tried to be organized though. It tends to collect “things I need right now and will probably never use again” and pdfs that don’t get saved to the Documents folder.
But then again - I have the same problem as OP. I have terabytes of photos which I should really cull but I can't get myself to do it because I'm a lazy fuck.