People sometimes argue that we're wasting computing resources and I agree. As a counter measure, I try not to upgrade my phones and laptops, but I'm also trying to keep my virtual server small. I rent it for 15.-/month and it comes with 2 cores, 6G RAM and 75G disk space. As it turns out, hosting a fedi instance, and a blog with images, a podcast and a PDF collection takes a lot of space. And so I'm being stingy: I'm not uploading media files onto my fedi instance since those files should be on the blog and I don't want to waste the space.

Hopefully, once I'm confident that my social media expiration really works, I can start posting images and movies to social media again because I'll know that the extra copies will get deleted again after a few weeks.

But until then, it's text only posts and links to media files, if at all.
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