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like, is there an actual pro for saving videos directly on your computer or is it better to just keep it favorited on one of those img board like r34 or gelbooru?
Do you guys think its wise to save videos and animations on hard drive?
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If said sites dies or deletes them, you'll still have it
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Why not both? There are a dozen services that stores crap on the cloud as soon as you put it in a folder on your computer.
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yeah, but i'm not fond of monthly paying those, also, some cloud services deletes your stuff like MEGA if i'm not mistaken;
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Both google and MS have options that come with other damn good perks (depending on needs). For instance, for 10 bucks you can get MS Office and...it used to be a TB of storage, may be more.
I get not wanting to pay though.
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If it gets deleted from the website you would still have the videos, also you could watch them without internet
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Who cares if things get deleted from various sites?
There are millions of other videos, images, audio to discover.
Saving porn hasn't been necessary since 30 April 1993.
There are millions of other videos, images, audio to discover.
Saving porn hasn't been necessary since 30 April 1993.
Ehhh, I still vividly remember the pain of trying to watch some video on a 40kb/s connection...
That's right - KILOBYTES per second. And this was already an ADSL connection, leagues better than dial-up.
It was a pain in the ass, even when it was just some shitty twenty second 320x240 flv clip. Getting a hold of something in the range of a 100 mb took an hour if you were lucky.
Things have come a long way since the 'oughties, yes. But the habit of saving my porn to my harddrive never really went away.
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40kb modem was not measured in kilobytes, it was 1/8th that... Kilobits.
I was using 1200 baud modems for BBS connections back as a youth. That 1.2 kilobits.
I'm sorry your trauma as a younger person for the scarcity of porn has led to tour digital hoarding as an adult.
- Nov 3, 2017
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Terrible take tbh. Of course good media should be preserved. Especially something prone to instant mass-deletion for BS reasons, like porn.
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*Good media" won't be wiped from the Internet.
And I've been on the Internet back before it was public and BBSs before that. I can still find the "good media" from back in the day the on the Internet. Hell, I can find the ASCII porn from the BBSs in the Internet today.
Porn has not been wiped and is not going to get wiped. Unless your talking about that kind of porn which you shouldn't have in your possession if you prize your freedom, anyway.
And even if some content is lost to the ethereal, there is new content posted constantly available that is just as good.
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Well the first thing that came to mind for me was all the fetish stuff that got wiped from Tumblr when they decided not to allow any porn anymore for whatever reason. I think most of it got wiped and some other blogs got blocked from public access. I think Pornhub had an apocalypse too a few years ago, and not just stuff that gets you in jail for having it.
Also the good stuff that some monkey uploaded with a title like "guy fuck girl in ass till she cums". How the fuck am I going to look up that particular one years later, especially when I don't know if it was removed for copyright or whatever other reason?
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You said "Good media" and then you drop this?
It's all till out there. Yes that exact content - those specific files - will be hard to find again if it is deleted from some sites. However, rare is the porn file that hasn't been uploaded to multiple sites or other sites have ripped that media, themselves. I already answered the question you pose:
And even if some content is lost to the ethereal, there is new content posted constantly available that is just as good.
What you are describing isn't "Good media" -- it's simply "media" and a shitton of content has been uploaded after Tumblr changed content guidelines and Patreon got rid of porn that was sketch, at best, on whether the people in the video gave permission to have it posted on the internet.
You can find equitable replacement content that serves your needs. There is no need to save it. Based upon what I am hearing is that you probably have a lot of porn saved... I would gather the vast majority of it you haven't viewed in years and may never look at again.
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No, I'm afraid Tumblr had some specialty user-created stuff I won't be finding elsewhere.
I do have a bunch of porn, but since I only have one SSD, I'm always hurting for space. 60-70% of what I have, I wouldn't want to lose. The rest are small .jpgs I've lost interest in that I can't be bothered to sort from the small .jpgs I still enjoy.
I think you're underestimating how niche some porn is, and how subjective the appeal.
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Well, no. Not for me. If that's your experience, good for you, but your experience is far from universal.
I used to have you attitude, but have changed it somewhat recently. The amount of porn that perfectly suits me is not very big. It is in fact so small that I am not even hurting for storage space.
Another issue is that ripped porn is incredibly hard to search, because the ripping sites often mislabel it (unless we're talking about 2D art ripped to some booru, then yeah, that shit is secure and extremely well tagged). I can grant you that the video that I want to find again does exist somewhere, on some shady porn site. But the problem is, it's impossible to find because it isn't tagged correctly. If I can't find it, it might as well not exist.
Local storage!
1. Hard drives are cheap.
2. Saves / loads faster. A LOT faster!
3. Nobody is going to get offended and delete your hard drive data on you.
4. It works at blazing lighting speeds, even if your internet is down or slow.
5. Your hard drive won't get hacked and shared in a "data breach".
1. Hard drives are cheap.
2. Saves / loads faster. A LOT faster!
3. Nobody is going to get offended and delete your hard drive data on you.
4. It works at blazing lighting speeds, even if your internet is down or slow.
5. Your hard drive won't get hacked and shared in a "data breach".
When it comes to porn, I have a hoarder mentality. Perhaps it's the result of being obsessed with porn since early age and growing up in a time where porn was scarce. Yes, up until late 90s obtaining porn was a complicated, expensive and often humiliating experience.
I save what I like locally in folders per year I downloaded and I try to burn it to DVD and Blu Ray based on the year of download, i.e. finish burning all 2015 before moving to 2016 etc. I delete from HD what I burn to plastic.
I'm currently only 7 years behind my downloads...
I save what I like locally in folders per year I downloaded and I try to burn it to DVD and Blu Ray based on the year of download, i.e. finish burning all 2015 before moving to 2016 etc. I delete from HD what I burn to plastic.
I'm currently only 7 years behind my downloads...
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