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backing up your pictures and videos

not to icloud, but to a flashdrive. a longer dirtier process to archive your life in this way, but i am dedicated to the project of documenting my life. i imagine myself decades from now, old and infirm, bedridden, finally scrolling back through the folders of old hangouts, vacations, walks to the park, exes, friends long past, and being delighted to relive my youth through my own eyes. i imagine the effort will be somehow worth it to be remembered and witnessed in this way, even if i am the only one witnessing and remembering

@testtubeadult

May 16, 2024

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physical media

everything digitized will go away and all your external hard drives will corrupt. they will try to call you a hoarder but, you’re the only one that’s gonna have anything left. don’t let an outside source tell you what/when/where/how you can have something and don’t complain about the bulk

@lawndawg

Jan 23, 2024

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Carrying a thumb drive with your teenage computer files in your wallet at all times

I’m a digital hoarder, so even though I have these backed up on drives in my house, I find it necessary to carry on me at all times a thumb drive with all my files before ~THE CLOUD~ - my entire teenage mp3 library - ripped episodes of true blood formatted for playback on iPod video - code for websites I made in 2001 - like a thousand photoshop ‘grunge brushes’

@ladyjadey

Jun 13, 2024

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learn to scrape the internet

you people seem cool so i try to avoid too much nerd/code/tech talk but here we go anyway. 🤓 one of the most useful skills i have acquired as a coder is the ability to steal things from the internet. there is so much stuff on the web that you ostensibly are supposed to pay for, but with a little coding know-how you can scrape the relevant data, download it to your computer, keep it forever and never pay a dime for it. Or maybe pay for it once but be able to cancel your ongoing subscription to it. I have used this skill to steal / borrow / archive: - workout videos from a paid yoga app - cocktail recipes - food recipes - music - library books - instructional materials - graphical source material for making art Depending on what you’re doing, this can require more or less technical skill, but likely less than you expect. this is also a thing that chatgpt is very good at walking you through, if you ask it for help. it feels especially rewarding to learn a new skill in service of saving yourself money, too. Even if the content in question is free, it’s nice to know you’ll have it for eternity even if a provider goes out of business, and it enables you to search/organize/manage the content however you like (with no ads, paywalls, etc). it’s a useful exercise in digital literacy that demystifies a little bit of the technical world that surrounds us, and it always gives me a thrilling little frisson of “civil disobedience” or at least naughtiness.

@heumann

Apr 28, 2024

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Stubbornly continuing to pronounce a word wrong in your head

i still read hyperbole as “hyper-bowl”

@heumann

Mar 18, 2024

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ios animated stickers

so first of all, if you didnt know, you can press and hold on stuff in a photo on your phone and create "stickers" you can send in imessage. but i just discovered you can press and hold on a "live photo" and get an animated sticker i am going to be so annoying in chats with this feature (I don't think pi.fyi supports gifs/animations so visit link to see example)

@heumann

May 5, 2024