TIL https://takeout.google.com/ is a clearing house where you can request google compile a zipped archive of any/all data you have stored on google products (including drive) and email a download link to you. you can make it a one time thing or something it does periodically. it can email you the link to the archive file or upload it to another cloud service account.

this story made me realize that while i do have a lot of things backed up to local storage accounts, i had gotten lazy with some financial records and other important documentation going back years that i keep in the cloud. so i've gone ahead and made myself a little snapshot for right now. which is nice, because i stood up a media box with a crazy amount of storage in a self-hosted RAID config and all my google shit is going to be like a 0.02% rounding error to drop in there.

not that i'm planning on a goon session with gemini or whatever.