Man, I got shop drawings of steam engines I know I will never build. The problem is I just like opening them up and looking at them. They are my precious.
Oh…am not the only one I see
I downloaded PDFs of art books I use all the time.
Hey now my paperless-ngx is filled with documents I have definitely read… the title of.
The internet archive also has music, if thats more likely to be something you regularly go engage with :)
You forgot your friend Anna in the picture.
I only download stuff from there that I’m highly motivated to read because I feel bad for wasting the bandwidth otherwise
It interested me for 5 seconds, you think I can afford not being able to find it again in 7 years??
What if the copy on my server IS the last copy!?!
better print it off then, keep it safe in the filing cabinet of essays I’ll read one day.
Get the declassified military manuals before they are slopified
Cant I just be in the War Thunder discord? Just wait a few days and you can probably download all of them in one go
That’s where you get the classified docs
People who archive do it to make sure things are not permanently lost to corporate greed.
Data hoarders are saving us all
Yep.
I download concert videos I like from Youtube, less because I want to watch them all the time, but because eventually, some corporation is going to swoop in and delete it all.
Save it before AI rewrites it
More like the fascist state is going to purge the entire internet of everything except their shitty subscription based llms, so you won’t be able to get any real information anymore. 10 years maybe? Internet will be dead.
Read it all, no, won’t live long enough. Grep (or full index) it all to find something obscure, priceless.
Does never watch/listen to count?
How’s that Steam backlog looking? Buy much in the Steam sale?
Hah I do have a backlog for sure. I probably would’ve bought something this go round but I was out of town for most of that sale
Hey now, I have a huge number of books I have never read but I do need them sometimes, like what the reluctance of 336 stainless that some Dingdong wants to install on this 500kv transformer? That is a book publishled in 1993 that I have looked through once to find that exact thing. Don’t want random pieces of hot metal attached to the equipment.
