Relcaimed territory

 >> NO CLOUD ZONE <<
 ___________________    ___________________
|      DRIVE 1      |  |      DRIVE 2      |
|===================|  |===================|
|  HOME STORAGE v1  |  | backupofthebackup |
|___________________|  |___________________|

There’s a certain urgency in looking things over, and giving myself time to decide what truly deserved to be kept. Today, i partitioned my 2 new hard drives. The second will be a backup of the backup.
One half to house my machine’s documents. The digital files i have hoarded since my arrival to the virtual world. Some of which i found funny:

  1. Screenshots, node_modules folders
  2. Stale .zip and .dmg files
  3. A whole collection of “final_final_v4” adobe and .blend files
  4. “untitled.blend”
  5. Different CVs and cover letters

The other half will house all the photos i have taken, such as these. My past lives that lived across borders, on USB sticks, shared hard drives.

Tomorrow, i sit down, make myself a cup of tea, and audit all my data hosted in the cloud, on someone else’s machine.. art projects that tried to make it to life, forgotten books and pdfs, photo albums of shared with people no longer in my life (ghosts from the past)

I will clear the space from their servers, and in turn – from my mind. If this operation fails, i lose a piece of myself, memories that cannot easily be restored from my brain. No more paying rent to the silicon lords -a lifetime of memories relcaimed, onto two spinning disks that fit in my hands. Fragile, and free – just like me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯