I have way too many photos (9.9k), mostly memes, mostly which I will never see again. I have way too many musical artists in my library. For a long time I added practically every song I heard (and more albums from the same artists). All of this is on Apple. Is it worth going through and purging it (especially when the internet’s dying anyway and who knows what infrastructure we’ll have in five years or more)? Any advice for de-appleing for someone whose hyperfixations do not include computer nerd stuff?
I came across a trove of my old web scrapings from over a decade ago and had a great time going throught it all. Learned some things about myself, where I’d been and where I am now and seeing the growth vector. It feels a bit like book burning to me to destroy such an archive. What would it cost you to find some storage and just put it on there and into the attic? Even if you never see it again, maybe your loved ones will. I’d be proud for anyone to see what I’ve saved from the past few years.
I don’t want to get rid of my personal photos, and sometimes even the memes, but most of it’s just random images I downloaded for discord or whatever which I don’t have time to go through ever. As for music, I barely make a dent with my daily listening. Fortunately I got over my phase of listening to way too much music because I was scared I’d miss out with how much there is and how short life is. Now I don’t feel like listening to music most of the time. That’s probably transient too.