It interested me for 5 seconds, you think I can afford not being able to find it again in 7 years??
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You forgot your friend Anna in the picture.
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People who archive do it to make sure things are not permanently lost to corporate greed.
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Save it before AI rewrites it
Get the declassified military manuals before they are slopified
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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.
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.
The internet archive also has music, if thats more likely to be something you regularly go engage with :)
Oh...am not the only one I see
My precious unread file library
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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.
Does never watch/listen to count?
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Hey now my paperless-ngx is filled with documents I have definitely read... the title of.
Me too, you can't read it before you've downloaded it... Unless it's a physical copy...
Make sure to seed them
I downloaded PDFs of art books I use all the time.
May I introduce you to friendliness, warmth and sharing? 🐀
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