Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

2y ago

your girlfriend gets an unencrypted copy of all your files. What happens?

196 comments

In about 5 minutes I get a complaint her storage is full.
I have unspeakable amounts of pictures of my cats saved. No, I will not delete the ones that are nearly identical.
- How much storage are we speaking?
  
  9 drives

Nothing? She already has access to it all anyway...
- This is the way, don’t hide shit, be open. If you feel the need to hide stuff from your gf/bf get out of the relationship. Them having full access is a trust thing and shows you’re mature enough for a serious relationship imo.
  
  100% my girl doesn't want to know and I don't want the headache if she did. It's okay to have privacy in a relationship

I'd start by wondering how in the hell I got a girlfriend, then my wife would do the same.
- My girlfriend would break up with me as she finds out that I'm married. Doesn't matter; imaginary score is still score.
- Technically, your wife is still your girlfriend. You two never broke up before getting married.

Dunno, but I have a girlfriend now.
- Congrats, bro.
  
  Thanks, bro! But she has all my files now.

It'll take her so long to scroll through all the movies and TV episodes that she'll never get far enough down the file tree to find the niche porn.
- How niche are we talking
  
  NOT illegal, and not crazy shocking weird. But niche enough that when I find content I like, I do try to download it because finding it again on the typical streaming sources can sometimes be a crapshoot.
- What if she uses a file search?
  
  She'd have to know what to search for first
  
  Nobody names their niche porn folder “niche porn”.
- My current partner usually complains that my porn is not hentai or not weird enough for their taste. 🙈 I suppose they'd stop at the movies out of boredom.

She would be disappointed in how untidy my files are.
"Why is the final version of this project called "test1_b_new_reworked_draft_2_prefinal_dif_font_b_temp_FINAL.png"?
She would then forgive me because her filing is worse than mine.
- Use git.
  Please.
  I'm begging you.
  
  For image files? I know you can save image files and git but I just don't know what it does with them.
  
  I’d imagine you’d be hard pressed to find a non-programmer who knows what that is.
- Found the Flash developer.

If I had a girlfriend, then several gigabytes of my files would be largely useless
- Ha, look at this loser, only has "several gigabytes" of 'Linux ISOs'

I'd then be asking myself when and why I got a girlfriend.
- No how?
  
  Probably not, I learned early on the "how" depends on the person. So asking how one gets into a relationship is like asking how one wins at cards. The cards decide. Your chances also severely change based on the environment you're in.
- Today so she can break your heart, obviously
  
  That moment when I'm gay and didn't even know it.

Apparently, OP is the only one who's got something to hide from his girlfriend.
- I don't have one
  Checkmate (or stalemate or checkmate against myself, not sure)
  
  That explains the question in the OP ;)
  Trust is the basis of any relationship. No trust, no relationship. At least not for long.

If she's my girlfriend, she's not going to judge, and instead lend me some of her clothes, help me with makeup, and discover that she's not 100% straight after all

Not sure how the girlfriend world react. But my wife would be pissed that I now have one.
- I was going to say "she finds out I'm married with three kids".

My wife gets mad that I have a girlfriend.
I become very confused at finding out that I have a girlfriend.
- My wife is my ex-girlfriend, but we're still dating. She gets mildly amused when I point this out, but she might just be humoring me.

My files are already unencrypted and she has the password to my pc. We're both adults so she obviously knows that I watch porn so they wouldn't surprise her. Everything else is just boring stuff.
- Who saves porn?
  
  Listen.. it's for.. archival and digital preservation purposes.
  
  Have faith in T H E C L O U D
  
  People with internet that frequently drops would be one guess of mine
  
  well sometimes the network connection goes down
  
  Datahoarders like me

Well I'm a datahoarding pirate so lots of movies, shows, games, porn, hacking tools, bot creation tools, firmwares, family pics, movie/show posters, ISOs, etc. Nothing to hide really. Might question my complete siterip of cum4k, tiny4k, and anal4k maybe.
- Seriously asking: How does one get a complete siterip of a site that publishes new content all the time?
  
  I regularly check the sites about 1 time a month. I also have a little bot the looks for WRB (scene ripper) releases as he is the one that rips those sites. I don't technically need to check the site but I just like to make sure 100% it's fully up to date. The tiny4k site is half me and the rest scene since there was a way to web-dl the videos for about a week before they fixed it.
  I then post monthly packs on kleverig (usenet) to help the guys that don't want to do it themselves.
  
  Probably its just a snapshot at some point, with maybe downloading new stuff when its published. At least thisbis how i'd do it.

She'll get bored as going through those files. Meanwhile I'll be trying to figure out if her sudden presence in my life means I'm now bi or homosexual
- Eh, don't sweat it. If you like someone, you like someone, there's nothing more to it.
  
  Agreed but that hypothetical instance of myself has no idea how she got a girlfriend in the first place. Know thyself

Wife already has access to my computer and all my files.
Do people not stream their porn nowadays?
- There's other secret stuff asides from porn you know? Not that I have any. Heard it from a friend.
- VR porn needs to be at least 4k for immersion and you can only get that quality with a paid account. But that's a waste of money so you pay for one month and fill a hard drive before you cancel.

My wife would probably divorce me for having a girlfriend I didn't know about

My bf wouldn't care, lol. It's mostly boring. And the spicy stuff is already stuff he's seen.
- Same.
  Btw it's so lame that OP assumes it's only guys here. There's dozens of us!!!
  
  Women can have girlfriends, too!
  I think the better wording for the title would be "partner" rather than girlfriend 👍
  
  Oh, I'm a guy, I'm just bi. But I also am glad it's more diverse than just guys too! :D
  
  If you go to the sub-category of women with girlfriends (just to fulfill the specifics of the OP), that group gets smaller.
  
  I actually made a conscious decision to annoy you

"Wow, so many unfinished projects"

What kind of question is this? OP you're sketchy af
- I got mad that most of the questions in this community were boring so I decided to spice it up a bit
  
  If by spice you mean ask questions that sound like they come from a horny middle schooler, then sure.

I rejoice at having a girlfriend

She immediately comes to me for tech support and asks what to do with this data, how to access it, etc..
You over estimate the technical independence of people near a geek. It's like they gleefully turn their brains off.
- But the OP says it's unencrypted data. While that behaviour might be the norm- would she also need assistance to navigate an unencrypted, unprotected backup?
  
  100%.. If the app updates and moves a button it might as well be broken until I figure it out and explain it.

Living this right now, but it's great. She's organizing my entire plex server!
- Use jellyfin
- living the dream

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.

I finally made a full backup of my system. I guess be happy about that.

~8tb of movies and tv shows all 100% legal 🥰
- 100% legal
  That isn't a flex around these parts
- 8TB, so that's like what, five ripped blurays?

Neat, free backups! Thanks!

Nothing. She has a login on my system and can access pretty much anything already, minus emails and dropbox I believe. But there's nothing worth hiding either.

Probably just ask why I have so many pictures saved of other people's cats.
- Then gets upset that you didn't send her the cutest ones.
- This is my favourite answer

She gets bored looking at it all, probably. The most interesting thing I there is nudes of her.
Ok, she would get a little annoyed with all the pictures of her sleeping. She hates me taking photos of her asleep.

My wife flips her fucking lid.

None of my shit is encrypted because none of my shit is interesting enough to warrant it
🤷

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.

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

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?

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.

A copy? Not possible unless she builds a NAS

She doesn't even look at them most likely

Not really much. Now if my wife would get the dump the story might be a bit different.

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

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.
- 40tb NAS for /home
  I'm not sure what's worse: mounting a network device on /home or needing 40tb
  I assume your movie/game collection is quite large
  
  It's just sub directories like ~/Documents, etc. /home is just quicker, but I guess that's moot with this explanation. And yes, I have a very large Movie/TV collection.
  V2 of the NAS will have 200tb for media, as well as an nvme array with a 40gigabit connection to my desktop. Still working out the specifics though.

My wife would probably try to have sex with her.

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

Dies of boredom

Hypothetical Girlfriend would probably wonder why everything is so disorganized.

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.