Entropy is a bitch

Here’s a rant about the chaotic state of my digital and physical life, and what I want to do about it.Some of my documents live only on my laptop, with no copy anywhere else. Finance-related and other sensitive data? Some of it is on a VPS, some on an external hard drive. Private repositories? Scattered across GitHub and a private Forgejo instance. It’s a mess.I need to defragment and consolidate. Follow a proper 3-2-1 backup policy, consistently this time, and cut down the number of devices I use.My photos, which are just as precious, are the one thing I got right. They started in iCloud Photos, moved to Google Photos, and finally landed in a self-hosted Immich instance, backed up with Restic to a couple of object storage providers. Thank goodness. That setup is the template I want to copy for everything else.I just wish hard drive prices would go back to pre-AI-mania levels. Amazon S3 and other S3-compatible storage are super cheap, but I don’t want to lean too hard on a single…

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