we are at the “has uninstalled firefox from her phone” stage of the hikari_no_yume permanent storage space crisis

i did buy a 4tb ssd last week but it takes a lot of careful planning and time and painful decisions to unwind yourself out of a protracted storage space crisis, particularly when it means moving stuff out of apple's ecosystem, and i've been living like this for so long now

i'm actually so pissed off at how painful apple make this and their extortionate storage upsell pricing that i've basically decided to never buy an apple product again. i refuse to move my entire life history to the cloud okay

also apple dropped support for my 12″ macbook and i love her too much to ever replace her, but that's okay, she actually runs linux better than she runs macos now. i'll never abandon her

in the alt continuity where i didn't quit my job at the end of 2022 maybe i would be rocking an eye-wateringly expensive m1 macbook air by now. but i'm not because that would've cost more than twice as much as all the music gear i've bought in my entire musician arc combined?

and you know, maybe i'm lucky that i'm not in that continuity, because i don't know how i'd face myself if i lost such a horrifically expensive object one day. an object that never should be so expensive. something that my ownership of in the first place just symbolises folly