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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
I rejoice at having a girlfriend
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 wgetAnd 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 🥰
8TB, so that's like what, five ripped blurays?
100% legal
That isn't a flex around these parts
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.
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.
None of my shit is encrypted because none of my shit is interesting enough to warrant it
🤷
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.
I get nervous about her discovering I'm married to someone else.
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 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 doesn't even look at them most likely
A copy? Not possible unless she builds a NAS
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.
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.
My wife would probably try to have sex with her.
Not really much. Now if my wife would get the dump the story might be a bit different.
RPG books. So many RPG books.
One day, I'll play all the different white wolf games, FATE, and whatever else is in there. One day soon...
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.
I get excited that I have a girlfriend. Although I don't know what she wants with my game saves. 🤷🏻♂️
The only encrypted file I have is my kdbx.
Same lol
A great deal of confusion, I imagine. I don't have a girlfriend, and since I rarely even leave the house on my own, I doubt my wife would believe that I do.
She tells me how intensly geek and boring my life is, before asking me to fix something on her computer.
I wouldn't be worried about the files but more about my wife finding out that I have a girlfriend.
Either she is nerdy AF, at which point I am going to get silly and probably scare her off, or she is going to be extremely bored hopefully she gets the hint and that will scare her off.
Nothing. She has no time to read Excel spreadsheets.
Hypothetical Girlfriend would probably wonder why everything is so disorganized.
Ex girlfriend then...
Is this a username checks out case?
My wife and merged CD and DVD collections years ago and all our photo albums and documents (in binders) are all in the office, so I guess technically we have access to each others files... does this count?
Duh, OP said girlfriend not wife.
So some other girl now has all yours and your wife's stuff.
She'd probably blush because I have a lot of pictures of her I never bothered to send her.
Delete System32
My parents would finally be proud that im not longer gay
She'll be confused about the situation but it's not like I have any strange files or anything, if that's what you mean
Girlfriend works at the NSA.
Tell her to stop spying through cpu management engines
Don't need to, read your comment while you were typing it
Depends. Does she know about my wife and kids?
I'll just replace "girlfriend" with "wife" since I am married —
Nothing happens. My wife knows me well. There isn't anything I think would surprise her.
It's all Linux isos and indie games and project files from game engines/programming languages that I got distracted from. If I had somehow convinced her that I was funny or interesting, all of that magic is now gone.
nothing much
Which girlfriend are we talking about here?
nothing because I am paranoid
An avalanche of boredom ensues.
Also a great disappointment in my interest in Linux memes.
What would my girlfriend possibly want to do with my awful photography?
i haven't hidden files from my pass two girlfriends. the had complete access to my computer, and i showed them where all the risque stuff was at. while i dont have one now, if i had a girlfriend, we'd probably have some kinky sex.
Not much probably, even discounting the fact that I have no girlfriend I am so bad at keeping files ordered that it is pretty hard to actually find stuff by following file paths and even then the most incriminating things that I have are just loads of pirated games.
She gets to enjoy a ton of porn, all of the songs I've written, all my games, some anime.
If I don’t have a girlfriend, does it go to my closest female friend or to my wife?
Double it and give it to the next person
Nice try, Lady.
She would learn what I have planned for the next dnd session but otherwise not much
Damn, you reminded me that I have to plan one as well. Any cool ideas for a one-off that anyone wants to share? We got a total beginner who wants to dip his toes in.
Yeah and she's the new player for me, this would be a really unfair advantage. And she would know who her characters Dad is
In my case, not just the next session, he would find out what the big mystery is and also all the secrets of the other characters.
But I don't think he would read any of it, he loves D&D too much to spoil himself :)
Y'all saving this stuff locally?
Most probably outcome from her face; disappointment.
I die most likely
It happen that she will leaves me, and not because horny stuff but mostly nerdy and videogames junks. Already happen actually and I see how many women looks a guy who lives on games stuff. You as man become a kid in the eyes of this girls.
Are you 70?
Seriously, gaming is the most popular hobby in the under-50 set. More popular than football and fishing put together. This persecution complex stuff is just sad.
Also, peak /c/arethestraightsok energy.
But if she's your girlfriend, wouldn't she also be into games and nerdy stuff?
Probably not because girls interested in nerd stuff are still a rare minority that become even more rare with the overage. People believe that things like gaming are a common reality but then the reality fails on simple alot of casuals that's believe owning a playstation make them nerds. This ruins the relationships, not just nerdy stuff, but everything that is a religious dedication, and when this things are hobbies like games easily a casual will not understand and will blames you for how you spending your time.
