Searching For A Save Point (Continued...): USB LOGISTICS / PRESENTATION PREP (128GB>32GB>8GB)

Quote for the 128GB dual sided full color print, max pre-loaded custom USB MUSIC CARDS.

Original batch of USB’s I purchased were 8GB, Obviously couldn’t fit a fraction of my full discog, I later invested in a batch of 32GB, did a bunch of optimizing & still not big enough (even as MP3’s) to hold my discog fully without leaving stuff out.

Other issues where the type of thumb drives I purchased were near impossible to customize visually due to size and design, but the main issue which was discovered while shipping a prototype in progress version to C.Y. was the actual time to transfer data from my high speed read / write SSD onto this particular USB, Which was just a few minutes shy of 5 hours.

After doing the math, the total time it would take to load up each usb to ship out all orders was 25 days. 24hrs x 25, and that is the best case zero latency, errors & max efficiency timeline. Doesn’t account for sleep, transfer errors, and most importantly…. It ties up my man PC 24/7 performing critical data transfer in which wouldn’t allow me to run resource heavy programs like Ableton or anything really without greatly increasing risk of corruption of data during transfer.

The delay for these USB’s has been 5 + years already. (Don’t crucify me, Everyone got immediate access to a google drive version that held way more than what would have fit on the usb at the time) After pivoting to blockchain in 2021, the scope of this vault evolved from just music and no context to full context after C.Y. Came into my life…. For the next few years I used blockchain to add the context & world build, which served multiple purposes (digital permanence, ownership, organization) while also allowing me to workaround the limited space of the USB’s by directly linking to context/collections in a master chronological biography (which a highly condensed version of this was released via Metalabel: Directory of Inspiration in the “Dutchyyy VS The Algorithms” section thanks to SoundOfFractures, Jade & C.Y. LEE. Unfortunately even at the time this was released in late 2024, all the functions and purposes for using blockchain began breaking, and in turn, breaking the links in the document, at the same time, C.Y. Covered the cost of the dental surgery needed to stop my body from going into sepsis from infections. That version of the Biography literally ends on that note (which is extremely lore rich and meaningful as the inspirational decade long narrative building up to it). Unfortunately there were only a few months of positive momentum after the surgery in which I was publicly documenting myself setting up for visually capturing my return to emceeing (and this news after a literal decade of back to back public and unavoidable trauma, made my friends, family and fans so so happy….

Unfortunately, two nightmares were running in parallel around spring of 2025, blockchain kept sunsetting and breaking any and all workarounds and time and energy I spent trying to retain proof of work I could link to, but much worse, the amazing blessing of the dental surgery turned into what became the worst and most traumatic year of my life, in a million years I couldn’t have predicted how dark & hopeless things would become due the insanely bad RNG of choosing evil healthcare providers…

And the worst part about it is, because of what the surgery was, and the purpose of it, when it went bad, it was impossible to not fully derail my life, and It degraded every aspect of the last 12’s of my life, and the stakes are my long term health…. So for the past 12 months I’ve been battling this privately with all my might, unable to be public or transparent about it, nor would I want to ruin that happy relief and joy people got from seeing me catch such a monumental break and blessing. Unfortunately 2026 got even worse & will now have to go a legal route, but regardless of the outcome of justice, I’m still actively trapped in defective and unfinalized dental prosthetics as I type this, which messed up my face…. It’s unfortunately something I don’t get to pretend isn’t happening…. And now I gotta have this unresolved horror story, attached to the finalization of what was supposed to have an inspirational end point haha.

But we’re doing our best & rolling with the punches cus that’s just how art / music is born…. The transmutation of processing & expressing and redirecting what we experience & adding some personal imagination ontop.

To Be continued….

Still… #Searchingforasavepoint #Dutchyyy