Asklemmy

What happens? Well, I just got a girlfriend!

About the files, I don't even remember what's in there.
So much random stuff.
90 random PDFs some of which is books I planned and still plan to read, but firstly I need to somehow gain some understanding in mathematics
Files recovered from 128MB MicroSD card I found on sidewalk some years back
Files recovered from my tablet I had when I was 8
Files recovered from mom's old phone
Copies of DVDs I own as .iso files
1,118 songs I've been collecting since I was 8
54 "Educational videos" - Electronics plus GSM cracking series
Leaked source code of FarCry because why not
212 pictures of Hatsune Miku
Never Gonna Give You Up video
1,739 Screenshots
22 Firefox buttons and banners
140 satellite images received with my SDR
1,553 Photos (Camera)
3 websites downloaded with wget

And 10s of thousands of insignificant files I don't even remember. But that's just my phone's SD Card. I don't delete stuff, at most I move it to directory named ZZZ_Garbage.

She has admin access on my server and can see everything so she already has that. We spend pretty much 24/7 together anyways so nothing to hide in the first place.

I get nervous about her discovering I'm married to someone else.

I don't think much would happen if my girlfriend or my wife had access to my files.

I have a 40tb NAS that I store most of my /home directory on, so I can share it between my desktop/laptop/steam deck. The only local files are coding projects, games, or device specific configs. My wife has access to all of it, and has never said anything.

I wouldn't be worried about the files but more about my wife finding out that I have a girlfriend.

My wife would probably try to have sex with her.

She’d probably ask my why I have full archives of a lot of old websites, and why I have archives of everything I have ever written for school or work.

Hypothetical Girlfriend would probably wonder why everything is so disorganized.

I get incredibly anxious about her finding incriminating things that I didn't do and I know don't actually exist, but what if they do somehow?

Either she is nerdy AF, at which point I am going to get silly and probably scare her off, or she is going to be extremely bored hopefully she gets the hint and that will scare her off.

Pornography starring Scout's mother.

A copy? Not possible unless she builds a NAS

Nothing. She has no time to read Excel spreadsheets.

Girlfriend works at the NSA.

Ex girlfriend then...

@original_ish_name

I'll just replace "girlfriend" with "wife" since I am married —

Nothing happens. My wife knows me well. There isn't anything I think would surprise her.

Dies of boredom

Absolutely nothing, other than maybe her questioning my data storage habits as it's all trash.

It's all Linux isos and indie games and project files from game engines/programming languages that I got distracted from. If I had somehow convinced her that I was funny or interesting, all of that magic is now gone.

You good bro?

Blink three times if you need help.

I get excited that I have a girlfriend. Although I don't know what she wants with my game saves. 🤷🏻‍♂️

She doesn't even look at them most likely

My SO‌ already has my files, encrypted or not, on their NAS (part of an arrangement where I keep my backup on their NAS, and they'd keep their backup on my NAS--once I manage to have one). I doubt they even gave it a look.

My wife and merged CD and DVD collections years ago and all our photo albums and documents (in binders) are all in the office, so I guess technically we have access to each others files... does this count?

"Why do you take so many goddamn pictures of our cat?"

"Why wouldn't I?"

The only encrypted file I have is my kdbx.

She'd probably blush because I have a lot of pictures of her I never bothered to send her.