I was a tech for a long time, constantly hounding clients to back up their data. At home I had three 10tb duplicates.
Fast forward to 2026, guess who hasn't done a backup in two years and had to save their own lifetime of data from a single clicking drive recently. 🥺
why am i like this
-backing oneself up really ought to be a function of the chip somehow
-some days I wish the mess would all be lost, but then I'm not sure what would be left of me
i often think i'd probably give up self-hosting if i lost it all. but then i remember how i got here, and think, actually, i could probably set up most of the critical stuff again in a weekend.
in the meantime. i should curate some photos and store them separately.
The photos are mostly all I care about. Like, I don't really need a 25 year archive of every OS I've ever used?
I forget things, so I archive everything. But maybe I *should* forget some things, and be empty.
in the current era of my life, records of some of my most critical projects i don't want to lose, are on my website—which, rather endearingly, is also preserved on the internet archive
I don't recall what mine is or who the vendor was. I suppose there must be some way to find out. I wish I wasn't so swamped right now because I'd love to see if I can pay with it. Right now it just has a link to a song about dying, in case my coroner needs entertainment.
i think they have enough metadata where you could discern an id. but unless it was designed for payment, you are almost certainly not going to be able to pay with it (except with crypto on a few of them)