Cleared some clutter, now have 60% of my drive free. Didn’t even lose stuff I really cared about, just media I’ve already watched, games that I’ve played but felt like hanging onto in case I wanted to play them again, etc.

@dave i've gotta do that like yesterday. meant to today but forgot lol.

If you’re on windows, use SpaceSniffer for this. Not sure what the linux/mac equivalents would be, but it’s really helpful

@dave my plan is to compress a bunch of stuff i don't usually access, like some movies/tv shows/music and other things like ROMs.

Compressing your media won’t free up much space, since media is already compressed by design.

@dave @beardalaxy dumb dave

@dave @beardalaxy i've made a script that converts video (from mp4/h265) to vp9 using hw acceleration. Because more or less vp9 can use 50% of the original h264 bitrate to have the same quality. I set it to 40% though. And, it also converts audio to opus. half of the original if > 144 kbps, or 144kbps if higher. wowee. I will use av1 in the future as well when i get a puter that supports av1 encoding thru hw.
Now i need to make a script that converts images to jxl's