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Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Online, you'll find people who use hashtags like "#digitalhoarder" and hang out in the 120,000-subscriber Reddit forum called /r/datahoarder, where they trade tips on building home data servers, share collections of rare files from video game manuals to ambient audio records, and discuss the best cloud services for backing up files. The often stereotyped hoarders letting heaps of physical items of questionable utility dominate their homes and lives often suffer social stigma and anxiety as a result. By contrast, many self-proclaimed digital hoarders say they enjoy their collections, can keep them contained in a relatively small amount of physical space, and often take pleasure in sharing them with other hobbyists or anyone who wants access to the same public data.
[...] Many people active in the data hoarding community take pride in tracking down esoteric files of the kind that often quietly disappear from the internet -- manuals for older technologies that get taken down when manufacturers redesign their websites, obscure punk show flyers whose only physical copies have long since been pulled from telephone poles and thrown in the trash, or episodes of old TV shows too obscure for streaming services to bid on -- and making them available to those who want them.
[...] Many people active in the data hoarding community take pride in tracking down esoteric files of the kind that often quietly disappear from the internet -- manuals for older technologies that get taken down when manufacturers redesign their websites, obscure punk show flyers whose only physical copies have long since been pulled from telephone poles and thrown in the trash, or episodes of old TV shows too obscure for streaming services to bid on -- and making them available to those who want them.
I have too many PDF scans of Byte Magazine on my iPad. #digitalhoarder
I count about 8 Tb spread across several machines as my current disk usage. Wondering if this is high, low or medium in technology sectors. None of it are videos or animations. Not much of bmp files, or binaries. Images are, at best, jpgs.
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I was just looking for another way to backup my NAS. I had been using CrashPlan on Linux but as I have approached 7TB I’d data, mostly unedited video, and lost my baseline, it has become way to slow. :)
It is interesting that if I want to backup 10TB, the cheapest solution I have found is to place a small QNAP (1 or 2 drive) at a friends house and run run sync backup between them. It has a break even at 1 1/2 year, power bill included. Since we are on 100 megabit internet it is fast enough.
Was looking at backblaze b2 as alternate solution.
I am not aware of any other backup provider than CrashPlan that offers unlimited space using a Linux client. The speed issue seems to be a single threaded java program that does client side deduplication. It will take me 7 months to reestablish baseline. 2 months when I exported the VM with the backup client and ran it on a cpu with faster single core performance.
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CrashPlan closed their consumer-facing unlimited storage cloud backup option because of people like this. It wasn't the 98% of the people using the service but the small minority of folks that backed up terabytes of data in collections like those here that made it unprofitable for them to continue operating. The digital hoarders really killed that service, ratter than the regular users.
People pretty much will collect anything and everything if possible. So it shouldn't be a surprise that there would be folks who collect data. The interesting part is going to be what happens to that data when they pass away?
It's more common than you think; I never get tired of her either
TFA calls these people "hoarders," but I'd liken them to modern day librarians/historians. Preserving and maintaining old data is a noble endevour in my opinion. I still come across and enjoy listening/discovering old music that was created before I was even born. When I was a child, there were tons of video games advertised that I did not have the money to buy nor the hardware to fully run it on. Nowadays, I can download many of those old titles for free and run them in fairly good emulators on modern hardware. It's great!
Given how much vintage porn from the 70s is easily found on most tube sites, you might be surprised ... hell, the novelty of women with pubic hair might do it for you if you've grown up thinking women have always been bare.
If you only go for what is new and novel, you end up where most internet porn addicts get, that if it isn't extreme, offensive, and highly specific it no longer does anything for you.
It's porn, given a long enough time from the last time you saw it, it still fills the same function. Changes in beauty standards and body hair don't really change that.
Sometimes, yes ... a bunch of years ago when Gonzo porn became a thing, it became a real turn off. No, I don't want to see you choking her, slapping her, or spitting on her -- it's a turn off, and in many cases it feels like it tips over the edge to being non-consensual. It skeeves me out when I'm alone, watching it with a partner (yes, people do that) and it becomes unbearable since neither of you wants to see that.
Me, I like a little variety in my porn ... all ages, shapes, and levels of beauty are beautiful. Endlessly seeing identical women in identical scenes just feels hollow (even by porn standards).
I can guarantee you, someone right now (pick any now that suits you) is watching vintage porn.
I mean, sure, there are days when you want the little pigtailed candy raver in a lesbian strap-on scene ... there's also days when that 40 something mom going at it with enthusiasm is what works.
You have to have variety, or you pretty much get yourself so that only one specific thing works for you.
It also means if you get laid in real life (yes, that happens too) you will have such a screwed up idea of what you want that you'll be a terrible partner, because she might not be into whatever that thing is.
Well how much physical media has been lost, destroyed, degraded over the ages. The burning of the Library of Alexandra has been said to set mankind back Hundreds of years.
During revolutions it is popular to burn and destroy material from opposing ideas. Storing and preserving such media is a multi-generational activity, which requires a lot of capital, as well danger (from such revolutions), Digital Storage is cheap, and big. For under $10,000 a hobbies in digital archiving can collect enough data to fill up the worlds largest physical library in physical media. If we have thousands of people doing this hobby, who will then copy the data to new media, we are better off then we ever were.
The key advantage of digital media, the more times your copy it, the safer the data. Because a digital copy is an exact copy of the data. So unlike taking a Tape Recording of a Tape Recording by the 3rd or 4th copy its quality is nearly useless. Or trying to transcribe books, where errors from human translation happens (see the joke from Red Dwarf can happen.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Hoarder No 1: NSA
Hoarder No 2: Google
Hoarder No 3: Facebook
etc...
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"Porn has a very short shelf life." TRANSLATION: "I have a very short attention span."
I'm not being randomly insulting...this is a big problem, especially among millennials. Before you accuse me of being get-off-my-lawn, check out the science. Research lately has been pointing to the fact that multi-tasking, looking at multiple screens with different content all day long, is leading to a statistically measurable and significant increase in attention span deficit.
I can see it in my roommate. She is 28 years old, and watches every movie on the TV with either a tablet in her hand for imgur/reddit/facebook/twitter or a phone in her hand for a video game. I'm quoting her the other day directly when I jokingly asked if she was physically able to watch a movie, 90 full minutes, without doing or looking at anything else and only using her mind to think about the one movie. She said: "I can't even imagine watching a movie without also tabletting!"
Thus, what you feel as "I can't watch the same porn again a second time" I suspect is "I need to continually watch new porn otherwise my brain gets bored/distracted/detached/aware-of-the-abyss".
To be fair, even if you never archived or organized any data, most competent OSes have file indexing that allows you to still search through a pile of random crap and still have a half-assed chance of finding it... doubly so if that crap is ASCII/text-based.
One time, that indexing even saved my bacon, allowing me to reconstruct roughly 180GB of suddenly disorganized-by-filesystem-error-then-recovered CG asset (Poser-readable) files. I still keep that directory hanging around today, as it contains stuff with vintages reaching back to 1997 or so - it's fun to mount it into DAZ Studio and fart around with it (and sometimes resurrect some of that stuff thanks to SubD, CollisionDetection and Shader-baking, neither of which existed on a real practical level back in the day.)
Also, that pile of disorganized digital crap never rots, never molds, never gets infested with (or crapped on by) mice, degrades from plumbing leaks, etc. This allows for the possibility of future re-organization into something useful, as long as you have a means to read those files (like in my example, as long as I have something that can import Poser's ASCII-based .cr2/.pz3/pz2/cm2 and Wavefront .obj files, I'm golden. Otherwise, I'll have to mass-convert it all by batch, which I'm probably going to do before the end of this year...)
There is of course the risk of data and filesystem corruption, but compared to the piles of random crap a physical hoarder keeps laying around the house in mass quantities? Two different animals altogether.
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Clearly it was more than as simple as a rounding error, as they shut down the consumer service due to the abuses.
Or maybe they only wanted larger customers and not have to deal with so many smaller customers that could each generate support requests.
As I said, if cost was an issue they could have just implemented tiered pricing.
In a way they did - they just have only the upper level tier now, and provided free migration to the small business plan. As it is, that plan is still only $10 / device / month, not that unreasonable!
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Look what I just found in my extensive digital records:
Digital Hoarding Can Make Us Feel Just as Stressed and Overwhelmed as Physical Clutter, Research Suggests — 8 January 2019
And, no, I don't feel stressed in the least.
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