i'm muting my post about cloud storage, europeans and USians can be extremely insufferable about this kind of stuff. sorry in advance to whoever comments something not terrible and i don't reply
@zaire oh i have a 500GB HDD and that's about it. but also i don't like to keep only a local copy of important stuff because well, stuff happens and something might happen to my devices
@peachymist 500GB HDD sounds okay-ish from a space standpoint? really how much storage you need will depend on what you do on the computer; i think all of my stuff personally would fit under that
again you should really make sure to have some sort of compression on your filesystem, it can make a real difference
wanting to not just have stuff stored locally is very understandable btw (especially if that hdd is in that aforementioned 10 year old laptop that might explode at any time). very valid use of cloud storage
@zaire i tend to be a bit of a data hoarder, most of this stuff is games and some music. technically it's stuff i could download again, but in this day and age you never know. keep a copy of stuff you care about etc, because the companies definitely won't keep it
@peachymist if you hoard flacs and start running low on space due to that do consider reencoding them into opus at 128kbps where i swear you won't be able to hear a difference (or 50kbps like I do where you might hear a difference if you've a sharp ear, in which case go for a middleground, like 70 or 80 etc)
@zaire oh most of my stuff is in mp3, i specifically avoid flac exactly because they take up way too much space and i really can't hear the difference. i'm kind of hard of hearing in general i would never be able to tell these small differences lmao
@peachymist what i tend to say when mp3 is brought up is mp3 in 2026 is nuke to the face, 20th century called they want their audio format back
no offense ofc;
but please don't use mp3, any reasonably modern player can play opus files and opus is like thrice as efficent :3 like, mp3 gets transparent at 320kbps and opus gets transparent at 128kbps and it compares even better at non-audiophile rates
@zaire@peachymist yeah opus is way more space efficient, also doesnt have the few seconds of blank audio at the start that is inherent to the spec and thats some players dont fix
