That was many, many PCs ago. I kept rolling my HDDs or data over depending on what was upgraded, now my downloads are living on my NAS. One day for shits and giggles I wanted to see what the oldest file I had was, and sure enough I still had a Napster download.
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.
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 👍
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.
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.
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.
If I had to guess, the oldest thing in there is probably some ultra-rare fetish porn involving God knows what—maybe even insects, who knows. It’s the kind of stuff you end up with after a week-long meth bender, where you’ve been awake for days, tweaking out of your mind, and your brain is so fried that anything goes. I’m talking about the kind of porn that’s so bizarre and niche, it probably shouldn’t even exist. That file has likely been sitting there for years, a grim reminder of a time when sleep deprivation and bad decisions led me down some seriously twisted rabbit holes.
From what I heard, the media crushed him but he was actually a better leader than Starmer. And there's the little fact of Starmer not having a spine and the whole protest squashing thing, which was in my opinion, not the right way to go about this.
Without looking for a source: I seem to recall he's the opposition leader who's caused the most government U-turns in the history of the British parliament.
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