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Engaging with the Cloud is requiring more thought than I expected.
E.g., Microsoft has a manual on the topic of inclusivity, designing for disability, that sort of thing. It's useful, and something I may find myself referring to in the future.
Do I download a copy of the manual, or do I simply bookmark the page where I can get it? The page might (will) vanish, and thus the manual might vanish. Am I cool with that? To what degree do I need to be able to access everything I ever had an interest it, as opposed to becoming more comfortable with the notion of ephemerality? I relatively recently got my bookmarks synching across all devices, thankgawd.
(To what extent am I comfortable with teaching my work computer that "ephemerality" is a word, without doing so for all my devices? Or is Google synching my spellcheck dictionary? Do I even know?)
If I download a copy, where do I keep it? My default "permanent digital storage" is my desktop computer's hard drive, at home -- a drive that I can't access unless I'm sitting at my desk at home, which requires climbing one or two flights of stairs, and (in the summer) sweltering heat. Should I make that disk remotely accessible? What about security? Should I store the manual in my Dropbox instead, in the cloud? Should I store *everything* in the cloud, and basically relegate my desktop to playing old games?
What percentage of my hundreds and hundreds of photos should be on Flickr?
What do I do about all the photos in my LJ archives, which were perfectly organized until LJ disallowed nesting galleries?
I have hundreds of pictures of the stuff I sold on eBay back when I was an underemployed eBay retailer. Yeah, looking at it makes me nostalgic, but why am I keeping those files?
Which all kinda gets back to: How comfortable am I with embracing the idea that not everything needs to be accessible to me forever? To what extent am I a digital hoarder? Is that actually bad, given how cheap storage space is these days?
E.g., Microsoft has a manual on the topic of inclusivity, designing for disability, that sort of thing. It's useful, and something I may find myself referring to in the future.
Do I download a copy of the manual, or do I simply bookmark the page where I can get it? The page might (will) vanish, and thus the manual might vanish. Am I cool with that? To what degree do I need to be able to access everything I ever had an interest it, as opposed to becoming more comfortable with the notion of ephemerality? I relatively recently got my bookmarks synching across all devices, thankgawd.
(To what extent am I comfortable with teaching my work computer that "ephemerality" is a word, without doing so for all my devices? Or is Google synching my spellcheck dictionary? Do I even know?)
If I download a copy, where do I keep it? My default "permanent digital storage" is my desktop computer's hard drive, at home -- a drive that I can't access unless I'm sitting at my desk at home, which requires climbing one or two flights of stairs, and (in the summer) sweltering heat. Should I make that disk remotely accessible? What about security? Should I store the manual in my Dropbox instead, in the cloud? Should I store *everything* in the cloud, and basically relegate my desktop to playing old games?
What percentage of my hundreds and hundreds of photos should be on Flickr?
What do I do about all the photos in my LJ archives, which were perfectly organized until LJ disallowed nesting galleries?
I have hundreds of pictures of the stuff I sold on eBay back when I was an underemployed eBay retailer. Yeah, looking at it makes me nostalgic, but why am I keeping those files?
Which all kinda gets back to: How comfortable am I with embracing the idea that not everything needs to be accessible to me forever? To what extent am I a digital hoarder? Is that actually bad, given how cheap storage space is these days?
