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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

September 2000 - Eurythmics Sweet Dreams 128k MP3 downloaded from Napster

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're not on the same machine, are you? That would be legendary.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That was many, many PCs ago. I kept rolling my HDDs or data over depending on what was upgraded, now my downloads are living on my NAS. One day for shits and giggles I wanted to see what the oldest file I had was, and sure enough I still had a Napster download.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It interests me that you did it in such a way that the download folder stayed the same. I have something more like this going. (Honestly it's even worse because my top layer is like a physical drawer somewhere)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I took a little liberty with what β€œdownloads folder” meant. It’s not in my root downloads folder, it’s sorted out into a music folder. It was a download though.

I’m just pretty impressed I managed to keep my music library going continuously for 24 years. 20 of those years are just single HDD no redundancy storage, just hopping HDD to HDD.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Is it the same computer? Or just the same directories? Or do you just use your Downloads folder like a normal directory for storing stuff?

[–] jewbacca117 14 points 1 month ago

I clean mine out regularly. Oldest right now is Cyberpunk 2077 mod that lets you pet your cat.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

One day, if I have actual money, I'll buy from the artists. For now, I'm a not-technically-a-pirate-because-no-distribution.

[–] JusticeForPorygon 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] konalt 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's a subdirectory that was created on April 2023. Looking inside, it contains a bunch of APKs related to YT Revanced. I kept it there because I can't come up with a better location to move it to. That's basically the same story for almost all of the files that ended up staying in the directory anyways. However, I try to keep try to keep things clean.

Whenever I visit the downloads directory, I make it a point to try to remember the context in which the files ended up in there. If I can no longer remember the context, I delete it. If there ends up way too many files of "the same class" then I'll try to move them together onto a different location. But if it's a file or two that I can't move elsewhere, it's no big deal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

a picture of me with my siblings at the grand canyon for when they came to visit me when I was working there. Oct 15 2010

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

On my phone, it's this which is datestamped 17 February 2012. I think I copied it there off the NAS, and the image is older than that.

[–] lazycouchpotato 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

On my phone right now so using my phone's Downloads folder. 2 years old.

It's this meme:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

STL files for an adafruit motorised guardian from BOTW

I swear i will print it one day

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You happen to have a link for that? Sounds very interesting

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Since I only have my phone right now, here is October 2nd, 2019

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My default download directory is /tmp, so I don't really accumulate much of random download files

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's smart.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The APK for F-droid, because I just got a new phone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My downloads directory's empty, because I organise everything to a laughable degree. People actually get inspired by how organised my PC and phone and so on are.

[–] Crashumbc 2 points 1 month ago

So is mine! But because I dump everything straight tomy desktop...

(Insert we are not the same meme)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

June 2023, a picture of my daughter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My downloads folder started in the early/mid-nineties. So TAG BBS execitable, probably.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Lol I just deleted my downloads on my PC, was > 100 GB lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Apparently I have a bunch of scala tuning files from 1996

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

15 year old crack.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

A folder with waifu2x-caffe (image upscaling software and not porn) from 2020

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

From 2020 a picture of the construction skill icon pre green pixel removal

[–] Bangs42 2 points 1 month ago

A document I need to edit for work from 2 days ago.

Y'all nasty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The Linux command "ls -t" sorts by newest first, if anyone else needs a cheatsheet.

It is "model_v5.torrent.zip" from December 2019. Looks like I was going to download AIDungeon back when that was new and amazing. I'm sure I never actually set it up and used it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Linux command "ls -t" sorts by newest first, if anyone else needs a cheatsheet.

I thought to myself "yeah, like I'm going to use the command line to check it instead of a gui file manager"

Then I realized I was already going to ssh into my PC from termux because I am too lazy to get up. So... thanks.

Anyway, it is as I guessed a pdf listing the mandatory courses on the college I allegedly graduated from this summer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Allegedly? Uh-oh, are you have trouble getting actual documentation of that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Kind of, actually. The graduation partay was on July 25, but if you're a no-show, they make you wait till August 22 to go get the papers. Guess they needed a summer break too, but come on!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe they don't remember it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Im currently seeding a torrent ive had since December. But thats just this pc. Ive got way older stuff on my external.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

In my downloads folder I have an invoice from 2022. In my utilities folder I actually have old DOS executables from 1985.

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