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Are you a digital hoarder? Inside growing disorder of never deleting
NY Post ^
| 4/18/23
| Jon Mac
Posted on 04/18/2023 12:30:24 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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Oh God! They will never stop.
To: DallasBiff
“Get rid of your documents while we scrub”
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posted on
04/18/2023 12:32:23 PM PDT
by
HollyB
To: DallasBiff
To: DallasBiff
I'm partly guilty. But I have good reason. I do regular 'housekeeping' on my storage but there are things I will never delete. All my music files, old pics and vids from when my kids were young. Old install files...gone. Old outdated docs and such...gone.
But saving everything? Nah. Storage is cheaper than ever but some thing has gots ta go.
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posted on
04/18/2023 12:38:00 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(You can never have enough clamps. Thanks Ben.)
To: DallasBiff
You should see my collection of bit buckets! Chock full of 1’s and 0’s....
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posted on
04/18/2023 12:40:08 PM PDT
by
G Larry
( DEI = Division + Erroneous Indoctrination)
To: Edward Teach
> Hard drives are cheap.
Absolutely. My time is more expensive than a hard drive.
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posted on
04/18/2023 12:43:54 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: DallasBiff
I organize and archive e-mails meticulously for business reasons.
It sometimes pays big dividends. A client of mine was able to win a six-figure settlement in a lawsuit — as the original DEFENDANT in the case — because I was able to track down an e-mail from 12+ years earlier that completely undermined the plaintiff’s case.
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posted on
04/18/2023 12:46:05 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
To: DallasBiff
The cost of storage decreases by orders of magnitude per decade. No reason to delete, and plenty of reasons to archive.
What this is about is that the Orwellian memoryhole process doesn’t work when pesky anons keep dredging up awkward statements and data that contradict The Current Thing (tm). If we could just delete the past, they could own the future. Ha.
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posted on
04/18/2023 12:46:49 PM PDT
by
No.6
To: DallasBiff
I spent a few early years in my IT career managing several petabytes of file shares. Some people keep everything, sometimes in duplicate/triplicate (and more).
Someone needs to take out the trash. The "Delete" key brings a sense of freedom. It's no different than anything else - If you don't use it, pitch it.
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posted on
04/18/2023 12:47:40 PM PDT
by
paulcissa
(Politicians want you unarmed so they can control you.)
To: DallasBiff
Oh fortheloveofalgore.
Keep what you like.
Unlike real life hoarding, it does not smell or attract rats and it drives the government nuts.
These are all good things.
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posted on
04/18/2023 12:50:50 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
To: DallasBiff
Lol. Another “disorder”. Any way to make a buck.
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posted on
04/18/2023 12:54:43 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: DallasBiff
I saw this when my wife’s work computerized the pharmacy. They keep everything. Forever.
Same with car companies. They keep every bit of data, down to how many turns it takes for an automatic wrench to tighten a bolt and what the torque is recorded. Each step is recorded and gives permission for the next step to proceed.
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posted on
04/18/2023 1:02:45 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
To: DallasBiff
It doesn’t take up physical space.
Deleting is stupid.
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posted on
04/18/2023 1:03:21 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: DallasBiff
The commies are coming for your hard drive next. They wang to scrub them like Google.
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posted on
04/18/2023 1:08:26 PM PDT
by
Luke21
To: DallasBiff
I have 75,000 E-mails spread over 4 accounts. The junk I get is overwhelming.
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posted on
04/18/2023 1:09:11 PM PDT
by
Shady
(The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
To: DallasBiff
Id like to know who keeps deleting my memory
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posted on
04/18/2023 1:14:25 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Yes he did he said how come i wasnt invited )
To: Shady
I don’t keep any more than 15 messages in my inbox. Delete or folder off if needed later as a rule.
Eventually I will haul the bins of long ago burned discs off for destruction. Almost none of them have been looked at since they were made.
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posted on
04/18/2023 1:16:37 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
To: al baby
Id like to know who keeps deleting my memoryLemme know if you find 'em cuz the bastard's been after mine too ;-)
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posted on
04/18/2023 1:17:34 PM PDT
by
tomkat
(SOTU = FUBAR)
To: All
I have dozens of hard drives full of my life one dating back to windows 3.1.
Are they recoverable after all these years?
I haven’t tried.
Maybe someday on a trip down memory lane.
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posted on
04/18/2023 1:18:52 PM PDT
by
Right Brigade
(It was better before they voted for whats his name,this must be the New World)
To: DallasBiff
Owning a 128 Terabyte NAS makes me guilty by default.
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posted on
04/18/2023 1:19:19 PM PDT
by
EasySt
(Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA-AaA)
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