End Of An Era
For a long time now I have been meaning to delete my Artstation account. One reason I kept it around was that it was a link source of some images on my other website, the other was a lack of impetus.
I haven’t used the place in a very long time. Posting just once in the last twelve months, and then only because I hadn’t posted; very meta I know.
This month I final got around to deleting the account. Pretty easy for once and no hoops to jump through just a simple confirmation click.
Part of the reason I deleted it was to reduce my online presence and especially my use of US based sites. The political situation over there is exasperating, and any steps I can make to reduce my exposure will be welcome. I am fully aware that it will be impossible to fully pull out of US online services, they are too deeply ingrained in the Internet for that to happen, but small steps.
Last year I deleted all my Cloud storage data, Apple Google et al. The reasons for this are more to do with corporate trust and long term control. I am getting older and one day I won’t be here and I have no wish to leave a massive IT clean up behind me. Why should anyone else have to deal with my online data, a few SSD drives and all my data is backed-up. I also deleted all my old archived emails, there were a lot and I am sure some will be missed but most not.
I wonder how many people actually think about what happens to their data after they are gone, after all most think they will live for ever, right. Not wishing to be morbid, just practical, I mean that bus may be just around the corner…
So there you go a little ramble in the realm of data, storage and retention, or not.
To wrap up here is a model of an imaginary storage device I made recently:
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