'Cleaning Out the Attic'

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Have any of you guys looked through your storage recently and found anything you'd completely forgotten about? I know I do this all of the time, but I bring it up because on my shitposting thumb drive I found this .wav (converted it to mp3 so it plays in the browser) from about 2 years ago, when I got a new mic to play vidya with friends, and wanted to 'test' it.
Worth noting there was also about 10 seconds of silence after I'd started recording which I cut out.

Yeah. I know. You can stop laughing now.

Anyway, I'd like to see if you lot have any gold laying around anywhere, cute stuff, embarrasing shit or otherwise.

and please be gentle ;-;

I go through my liked YouTube vids every now and then. Aside from that I deleted most of my old shit in my random folder so nothing to post from that. If I had my 2TB HDD still I'm sure I could dig something up 🙁

this from 2013, its the old finnish osu teamspeak

EDIT: also this from 2013, i have no explanation

doublemunch wrote

Have any of you guys looked through your storage recently and found anything you'd completely forgotten about? I know I do al of the time, but I bring it up because on my shitposting thumb drive I found this .wav (converted it to mp3 so it plays in the browser) from about 2 years ago, when I got a new mic to play vidya with friends, and wanted to 'test' it.
Worth noting there was also about 10 seconds of silence after I'd started recording which I cut out.

Yeah. I know. You can stop laughing now.

Anyway, I'd like to see if you lot have any gold laying around anywhere, cute stuff, embarrasing shit or otherwise.

and please be gentle ;-;

You have a very qt voice, beautiful

Went to the bottom of my liked videos and found a video I have no recollection of liking. I don't know why I did, but it's there. Don't judge me.

seel wrote

Went to the bottom of my liked videos and found a video I have no recollection of liking. I don't know why I did, but it's there. Don't judge me.

I can parrot that sentiment.

Though this is from a rather new YT account, because I lost the password to my old one ;;

Logged into my YouTube for the first time in about six months to fish around for random things in the Liked playlist and found these two videos. I heard them first from a Top 35 Myths in video games or whatever and gave them likes so I could easily keep track of them.

And this one I'm sure came from when I was interested in /x/ related stuff for a little bit some years back:

My computer is a fucking mess. I'm a total digital pack-rat, so I've found everything from H-games, to entire compendiums of novels, to forgotten games I'd touched once and never returned to.

My external drives are even worse. I got my first one back in '08, so browsing through it is like taking a trip back in time. I'm talkin' ancient memes, with watermarks from sites that don't even exist anymore. Given that I really got back into anime around late '09, and that I haven't touched most of these files since then, an astute historian could probably chart my gradual descent into weebdom.

Backlash wrote

My computer is a fucking mess. I'm a total digital pack-rat, so I've found everything from H-games, to entire compendiums of novels, to forgotten games I'd touched once and never returned to.

My external drives are even worse. I got my first one back in '08, so browsing through it is like taking a trip back in time. I'm talkin' ancient memes, with watermarks from sites that don't even exist anymore. Given that I really got back into anime around late '09, and that I haven't touched most of these files since then, an astute historian could probably chart my gradual descent into weebdom.

Data hoarding is awesome. I'm probably gonna have to invest in a ZFS or BTRFS setup at some point in the not so distant future.

malmon wrote
Backlash wrote

My computer is a fucking mess. I'm a total digital pack-rat, so I've found everything from H-games, to entire compendiums of novels, to forgotten games I'd touched once and never returned to.

My external drives are even worse. I got my first one back in '08, so browsing through it is like taking a trip back in time. I'm talkin' ancient memes, with watermarks from sites that don't even exist anymore. Given that I really got back into anime around late '09, and that I haven't touched most of these files since then, an astute historian could probably chart my gradual descent into weebdom.

Data hoarding is awesome. I'm probably gonna have to invest in a ZFS or BTRFS setup at some point in the not so distant future.

BTRFS is the shit tbh. Just stay away from raid5 and raid6 because it's fucked. All the other modes including raid1 work great. Regarding ZFS vs BTRFS, ZFS has more features and is more mature, yet is inflexible and somehwat confusing. BTRFS is flexible but can fuck you in the ass if you use stuff like the ext4 converter or anything involving parity (raid5/6, they fucked up their code). I can personally say BTRFS has served me well, and enables you to use much cheaper hardware than ZFS. Besides, you are keeping a backup of important data regardless... right? Neither BTRFS or ZFS will prevent your home from burning down.

RX14 wrote
malmon wrote
Backlash wrote

My computer is a fucking mess. I'm a total digital pack-rat, so I've found everything from H-games, to entire compendiums of novels, to forgotten games I'd touched once and never returned to.

My external drives are even worse. I got my first one back in '08, so browsing through it is like taking a trip back in time. I'm talkin' ancient memes, with watermarks from sites that don't even exist anymore. Given that I really got back into anime around late '09, and that I haven't touched most of these files since then, an astute historian could probably chart my gradual descent into weebdom.

Data hoarding is awesome. I'm probably gonna have to invest in a ZFS or BTRFS setup at some point in the not so distant future.

BTRFS is the shit tbh. Just stay away from raid5 and raid6 because it's fucked. All the other modes including raid1 work great. Regarding ZFS vs BTRFS, ZFS has more features and is more mature, yet is inflexible and somehwat confusing. BTRFS is flexible but can fuck you in the ass if you use stuff like the ext4 converter or anything involving parity (raid5/6, they fucked up their code). I can personally say BTRFS has served me well, and enables you to use much cheaper hardware than ZFS. Besides, you are keeping a backup of important data regardless... right? Neither BTRFS or ZFS will prevent your home from burning down.

@RX14 I want to setup a good backup system so i can make sure all my files are safe, could you help a pleb get one running? I use ubuntu-gnome and a macbook pro and want to backup some large files across a couple external hard-drives so just in case one fails the data is still safe.

seel wrote

Went to the bottom of my liked videos and found a video I have no recollection of liking. I don't know why I did, but it's there. Don't judge me.

w-who is that?

3 years later

Hardest part about cleaning out old drives? Finding stuff you'd feel comfy deleting. My personal archives date back before my earliest memories. Vaporizing anything substantial here would feel like a cardinal sin.

Backlash wrote

Hardest part about cleaning out old drives? Finding stuff you'd feel comfy deleting. My personal archives date back before my earliest memories. Vaporizing anything substantial here would feel like a cardinal sin.

This is why I have so many hard drives >.<

8 months later
malmon wrote
Backlash wrote

Hardest part about cleaning out old drives? Finding stuff you'd feel comfy deleting. My personal archives date back before my earliest memories. Vaporizing anything substantial here would feel like a cardinal sin.

This is why I have so many hard drives >.<

Hah, right? Just today, I found this extremely vintage anime meme tucked away in my files. Based on  the characters, I'd date this to around late-2010 to early '11, tops.

If you're lucky, you might even find your waifu! ^~^

Backlash wrote

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Hah, right? Just today, I found this extremely vintage anime meme tucked away in my files. Based on  the characters, I'd date this to around late-2010 to early '11, tops.

If you're lucky, you might even find your waifu! ^~^

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Doesn't load for me, for some reason :<

mnl wrote
Backlash wrote

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Hah, right? Just today, I found this extremely vintage anime meme tucked away in my files. Based on  the characters, I'd date this to around late-2010 to early '11, tops.

If you're lucky, you might even find your waifu! ^~^

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Doesn't load for me, for some reason :<

Rrrr. Sorry about that, cutie. <3

Backlash wrote
mnl wrote
Backlash wrote

-snip-

Hah, right? Just today, I found this extremely vintage anime meme tucked away in my files. Based on  the characters, I'd date this to around late-2010 to early '11, tops.

If you're lucky, you might even find your waifu! ^~^

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Doesn't load for me, for some reason :<

Rrrr. Sorry about that, cutie. <3

Ahh, a waifu periodic table. Pretty nice! ^_^ Saved.

Backlash wrote
malmon wrote
Backlash wrote

Hardest part about cleaning out old drives? Finding stuff you'd feel comfy deleting. My personal archives date back before my earliest memories. Vaporizing anything substantial here would feel like a cardinal sin.

This is why I have so many hard drives >.<

Hah, right? Just today, I found this extremely vintage anime meme tucked away in my files. Based on  the characters, I'd date this to around late-2010 to early '11, tops.

If you're lucky, you might even find your waifu! ^~^

Oh, cool! I wonder if one could make a variation on this, but with the waifus arranged by their personality traits~

3 months later

Physical storage oughta count, right~? Well, about seven years ago, when I'd just graduated high school, I happened upon a small wooden box that someone had left for collection by the curb. Now, this thing was extremely heavy. From its dials and references to radio bands I knew it had something to do with audio, but unfortunately, that was also the first of several periods in life when I couldn't form any lasting new memories, not to mention my old ones kept getting erased. I left it in the garage to collect dust, and eventually some poor soul took it upon themselves to place it on the top shelf of this storage rack.

Fast-forward to today, and it turns out that it's actually a vintage stereo receiver! A Marantz Model 2270 to be precise, manufactured between '71 and '75. I have to say, despite being in the garage for the better part of a decade, the exterior has held up extraordinarily well. All the buttons work too, and the knobs feel smooth. It doesn't power on of course, and I'll need the help of a construction crane just to get it down. Buut, if it's just a burnt resistor or blown capacitor or two, it'll be really fun to restore it to working condition someday. c: