• frongt@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    Same. Pretty often I want to pull up the specs on some computer part, but these days nothing is clearly labeled with a part number. I don’t think my motherboard has one at all, certainly none where I can see. I would just search my email for “motherboard” and the most recent result was probably the one I wanted.

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      1 hour ago

      Ever since I realised that corporations are allowed to engage in fraud, and a litany of other crimes, without consequence I started archiving things directly using a combination of the SingleFile browser extension and full page screenshots, placing them in a web-archive folder.

      Every time I purchase anything I save the product listing and order page, along with all associated info, naming all files based on the date of the purchase; the larger the purchase the more I’ll save (product page, warranty, user manuals, etc), and sometimes even a note.md file to document specifics (filter changes, spare parts and part numbers, etc).

      I also use this method to snapshot various account pages or interactions like web chat; pretty much anything that future me could possibly need to reference.

      It comes in handy extremely often.