- RabbitMix ( @RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•3 months 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
- megane-kun ( @megane_kun@lemm.ee ) English5•3 months 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.
- Chris ( @i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ) English5•3 months 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.
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 5•3 months ago
I make 1 to 3 “monthly” backup folders, where everything I’ve downloaded that hasn’t been moved to a home goes into 2024 August Downloads
I think I have back to 2021.
Still use them fairly often, lol.
Ooh this is a good idea! Because when you extract a file you just downloaded the original creation/modification dates are preserved. So when you extract some tarball the directory my be from several years ago so you can’t rely on file modification times to see when you downloaded any given thing.
I think I’m going to start doing the date directory thing! I’ll start by writing a bash script that runs in a systemd timer that automatically creates a directory whenever the month changes 👍
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 2•3 months ago
I also like doing it this way because then I’m my own archive of old software installers. So if a new version comes out busted, run the old installer! Doesn’t always help if it’s internet connected, but it’s nice to have something.
And I think even my vast amount of history is maybe only 100GB on my backup HDD, if it’s larger it’s from occasional random large files lol.
- Mythnubb ( @Mythnubb@lemm.ee ) English4•3 months ago
Since I only have my phone right now, here is October 2nd, 2019
- SkaveRat ( @SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•3 months ago
My default download directory is /tmp, so I don’t really accumulate much of random download files
- janNatan ( @janNatan@lemmy.ml ) 3•3 months ago
The APK for F-droid, because I just got a new phone.
- Bob ( @MadBob@feddit.nl ) 3•3 months ago
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.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•3 months ago
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.
- Tyoda ( @Tyoda@lemm.ee ) 2•3 months ago
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.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•3 months ago
Allegedly? Uh-oh, are you have trouble getting actual documentation of that?
- Tyoda ( @Tyoda@lemm.ee ) 2•3 months 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!
- lud ( @lud@lemm.ee ) 1•3 months ago
Maybe they don’t remember it.
- CurlyWurlies4All ( @CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net ) English3•3 months ago
June 2023, a picture of my daughter.
- fmstrat ( @fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ) English3•3 months ago
My downloads folder started in the early/mid-nineties. So TAG BBS execitable, probably.
- iamjackflack ( @iamjackflack@lemm.ee ) 2•3 months ago
I don’t have a downloads directory. The browsers I do use are set to ask for save file name every time (not always the same directory) and I delete everything when done using. The default dump everything to a garbage folder is not really a great idea
- datavoid ( @datavoid@lemmy.ml ) English2•3 months ago
Apparently I have a bunch of scala tuning files from 1996
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•3 months ago
Did you take a liberal definition of “downloads directory” like the other guy?
- datavoid ( @datavoid@lemmy.ml ) English1•3 months ago
Nope, are you weirdly angry for no reason?
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•3 months ago
No. That’s just a long time ago.
I can’t imagine you’re on the same machine, so I guess you must have rolled over your files in such a way that the download directory was still preserved?
- datavoid ( @datavoid@lemmy.ml ) English2•3 months ago
Fair enough - didn’t mean to sound confrontational.
I definitely didn’t download the files that long ago, that’s just when they were created. I probably downloaded them in 2020 or 2021.
The real mystery of my download folder is only a few weeks old, and was caused by a year long obsession I’ve developed - it’s called “what is this.mp3”
If anyone knows what this sample is called, please let me know! It’s the new craze I guess
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•3 months ago
It sounds kind of like the Morse code for “8”.
- dizzy ( @dizzy@lemmy.ml ) 1•3 months ago
That’s the “wheel up signal” from the blu mar ten junglejungle sample pack. Classic sound in jungle and uk garage music.
https://blumarten.bandcamp.com/album/blu-mar-ten-jungle-jungle-1989-to-1999-samplepack
The sample is taken from this song
It was originally recorded from a saxon soundsystem clash in 1993
https://on.soundcloud.com/tJsb1tv1zqyqT1Xs9
At 1h3m36s
Also known as a “dub siren”
- datavoid ( @datavoid@lemmy.ml ) English2•3 months ago
Thank you! Was driving me mad
- dizzy ( @dizzy@lemmy.ml ) 1•3 months ago
Where were you hearing it?
- texasspacejoey ( @texasspacejoey@lemmy.ca ) English2•3 months ago
Im currently seeding a torrent ive had since December. But thats just this pc. Ive got way older stuff on my external.
- root ( @sudoroot@lemmy.zip ) English2•3 months ago
Lol I just deleted my downloads on my PC, was > 100 GB lol