Yea hahaha whod collect shit they’ll never make any use of
looks at my steam library
Looks at my bookshelf
Looks at my to-watch list on Amazon/Netflix/et. al.
leaves quietly
My rss container going brrrrrrrrr with articles upon articles that I will never read
Data hoarding
A noble cause.
The Google Syndrome
I save up tons of open discussion threads, articles, GitHub pages, etc on my phone or computer over time. Eventually, I pick a day to just blast through as many as possible, closing them as I go. I’ve spent so many hours of my life trying to close out stuff that is no longer relevant (but still unread) because I was approaching the max number (500) of open tabs on my phone.
It’s a consequence of being curious, lazy, and impatient at the same time.
That’s a dangerous combination…
Assuming it is Safari browser on iOS… and if you just want all your tabs gone in seconds: just long press „Done“ in tab view and a „Close all“ option will appear.
And first you can long press the name of the tab group and select “copy links” if you want to paste them into a note for posterity
And this is what grandpa was browsing in July 2024
Thanks, I know. The point is to build a reading list for later when I have a long window of free time.
Just don’t open note than 4 tabs. Easy
Archivebox is your friend
I use a macrodroid macro to submit links to my archive box for me.
I use Pocket for things I wanna find again later, but that’s after I’ve already read it. If I just go directly to Pocket without reading it’ll get forgotten.
I have 65TB of media in my collection and growing.
The point isn’t that I’m going to consume all of it, but that I have all of it to consume.
People would buy encyclopedia collections, but they wouldn’t normally read them cover-to-cover, it was just nice having a big reference.
Downloading 40,000 hours of obscure music isn’t about listening to all of it, it’s about shuffling it and discovering hidden gems.
Downloading 5,000 movies isn’t about marathoning movies full-time. It’s about having my own personal Netflix, but only with the stuff I deliberately gathered.
Downloading every single PlayStation / Sega / Nintendo game means that I can take gameplay requests instantly from friends. Nobody asks “do you have x”, they know I do. We just play games.
Same with Karaoke. The more songs the better, that’s why I have 150,000 karaoke tracks. Even my Japanese and Korean friends get what they want.
You sound like an awesome person to be friends with.
It’s true, thanks.
Removed by mod
But my friend, by downloading all this shit from the internet archive I, too, become an archivist!
Good policy. You should always be collecting reading material faster than you can read it.
that’s what torrenting is for, by seeding you also help other people download files they’ll never read
I have a bookmark folder with links to interesting articles that I plan to read someday…
giving myself side-eye regarding my e-book collection
I have a collection of over 80k ebooks. I got most of them in huge download packs decades ago, and removed duplicates. it’s a surprisingly small folder.
I did the math on it long ago and it would take more than 200 years, reading an average of one full book a day, every day, to get through them all.
So I’m happy just knowing that if I get through some of them, it’s better than none of them. Time is limited, make the most of it by doing what sparks joy, and not worrying about what you didn’t get to.
Excuse you, you can’t download books from Internet Archive anymore, you can only rent one of their 10 digital copies (thanks publishing companies).
Blame internet archive for acting like they weren’t violating copyright for some things. They screwed the pooch for us
I finally cleared out my “e-books” folder on Google Drive which had PDFs from like 10-15 years ago that I’ve never read 🤣
Ooh, every SNES game in one handy download.
*plays 2 of them, for like 10 minutes*
I don’t because I don’t really have the storage space. But I would if I could afford to, just so that I could have the folder shared on soulseek. Preserve and share, especially the niche, oop, or otherwise hard to find literature.
So I just keep the stuff I will read, which is still a pretty big chunk of data, despite ebooks being fairly small individually.
