Comment by 👤 jdcard

Re: "Digital Hoarder"
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I'm not really feeling much regret. I lived each day as it came, and pretty much got to do whatever I wanted to do. As a teen I had a plan for what I wanted to do in life, but that fell apart before I reached my 24th birthday. Ever since then I moved from one job to another, one house to another, taking whatever path seemed the best option at the moment. Maintained good relationships with the wife and kids and extended family throughout the journey. Never got rich and famous but I am still living happily ever after.

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Jan 05 · 1 year ago

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👤 jdcard

Digital Hoarder — I've been buying personal computers since the mid-1980s. Most of the time each new system included much more storage than the one it replaced. To make things easy I usually just copied the entire contents of the old machine's drive(s) to a backup folder or partition on the new machine -- all my personal data of course, but also the entire operating system including its caches and temporary files -- everything! Sometimes I just pulled the hard drive from the old machine and...

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