I tend to either act as a data hoarder, but most of the time end up being overwhelmed with anxiety about having so much data. Even when I just look at my personal photos, I just feel impeding doom knowing it can only grow and grow, it will never get smaller.

I was wondering if this had a term.

And coming from this question, I am just amazed by this community. What has prompted your interest in data hoarding?

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[–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

This makes me uneasy. I have colleagues like this. They have 40 open tabs, and none of their desktop icons are even in a grid... With stuff literally overlapping.

I call these desktops a "Layer 8 collage".

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    I feel called out on the number of open tabs but hey gotta put that RAM to good use.

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    Seriously now, if I'm researching something the number of tabs just explodes to several hundreds. To be in line with the data hoarder principles I do save and organise the data so it's accessible offline but damn it can become quite annoying to manage at some point.

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