> I struggle to generate more than a few hundred MBs per year

There are so many (legal) use cases for TBs of space... Photography, video editing, 3D graphics, 3D simulations (think VFX explosions, destruction), ML/AI, Dataset curation/archiving, backups, doing Rust development (each target/ directory ends up being GB large usually), and so on.

Some weeks ago GPT-OSS was released, so I wanted to play around with the 120b weights, they take ~60GB of disk space already. Imagine that same thing every time new open weights are released, and you end up with +TB large collection relatively quickly.

> Isn't the era of music and video piracy hoarding over after Spotify and Netflix went mainstream in most highly developed nations

Seems to me like the reverse. I have more and more friends asking me about how to setup self-hosting for music, tv-shows and movies, especially when Netflix et al do their monthly purge of content and some friend noticed their favorite show/music is suddenly gone because some contract with a 3rd party expired.

I always carry at least that much cash on me. You never know when you might need to flee a collapsing country on short notice or bribe a cop.

https://sneak.berlin/20191119/your-money-isnt-yours/

Can’t do that with your debit card.

In my view it is irresponsible to not carry on your person at all times your passport and enough money for a week of food and hotel and a plane ticket to the country of passport issuance. Carrying a card introduces working internet as a dependency for food and shelter, which is stupid and unnecessary.

Also, card payments are warrantlessly tracked at all times by the state, creating a location tracklog of where you go and when you go there.

> I struggle to generate more than a few hundred MBs per year.

You must not work with video.

Even with photography, a single raw photo can already use tens of megabytes (source: just looked at a raw photo file I happened to have around). A single raw video (or even a single already edited video) uses even more.

Now consider that you need at least twice that for redundancy (RAID-1 at the minimum). If you use things like Ceph for speed and redundancy, it's AFAIK recommended to have at least four separate nodes, each with its own storage.