>>Finally got around to sitting down and reading this properly; it got shunted to "Articles-to-read" in my mind rather than social media.
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Yeah, when I saw you commenting on later posts without first commenting on this one you expressed interest in, I figured that's what had happened. And reasonably so: it's over 5k words.
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>>I don't think I have the spare memory to sustainably archive more than I already am
Just to check: have you been making much use of compression?
Collections of HTML files from the same website (such as from wget scrapes) are particularly amenable to compression, especially if they're not very image-heavy and especially especially if you use 7-zip (at least compared to regular zip; make sure to set it to "ultra" mode if you care more about storage space than about how long the compressing takes). I've gotten 100x space savings on some websites! Not everything turns out *that* well, but in most cases it's still helpful.
My new laptop has a 1 TB HDD *and* a 256 GB SSD, so I should be good for a while as long as I continue to refrain from backing up our DVDs. (Though I'll need *some* DVD files kicking around at any given time, since it doesn't have an internal DVD drive. My current plan is to watch Doctor Who by ripping discs on the TV computer and transferring the files over.)
I know you've complained in the past about low storage space from the great leap backward to SSDs. Some SSD laptops that don't *come* with a dual-storage-drive system have an empty HDD slot to allow for aftermarket upgrading (and vice versa with some HDD laptops): is yours one of them? If not, there's always external drives, though a separate unit can get unwieldy. (Of course, whether you can get more storage *within your budget* is potentially another matter, but it's good to know your options.)
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>>I don't think I'm generally as diligent as you on that front (And thus have a mild expectation that your answer will boil down to "Well you remember to do the thing then do the thing, every day"), but still, do you have any tips for getting that kind of logging set up?
While personally I find leaving the LibreOffice document open at all times to be a sufficient reminder for the most part, this seems like the sort of thing where a lot of people would find recurring phone alarms very helpful.
Migrating to a new laptop, like writing a public-facing article, is a good time to take an extra-thorough stock of one's methods. I've been making a few notes on things to tweak as I settle into my new computer, and I expect I'll post them once I've finished.
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Yeah, when I saw you commenting on later posts without first commenting on this one you expressed interest in, I figured that's what had happened. And reasonably so: it's over 5k words.
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>>I don't think I have the spare memory to sustainably archive more than I already am
Just to check: have you been making much use of compression?
Collections of HTML files from the same website (such as from wget scrapes) are particularly amenable to compression, especially if they're not very image-heavy and especially especially if you use 7-zip (at least compared to regular zip; make sure to set it to "ultra" mode if you care more about storage space than about how long the compressing takes). I've gotten 100x space savings on some websites! Not everything turns out *that* well, but in most cases it's still helpful.
My new laptop has a 1 TB HDD *and* a 256 GB SSD, so I should be good for a while as long as I continue to refrain from backing up our DVDs. (Though I'll need *some* DVD files kicking around at any given time, since it doesn't have an internal DVD drive. My current plan is to watch Doctor Who by ripping discs on the TV computer and transferring the files over.)
I know you've complained in the past about low storage space from the great leap backward to SSDs. Some SSD laptops that don't *come* with a dual-storage-drive system have an empty HDD slot to allow for aftermarket upgrading (and vice versa with some HDD laptops): is yours one of them? If not, there's always external drives, though a separate unit can get unwieldy. (Of course, whether you can get more storage *within your budget* is potentially another matter, but it's good to know your options.)
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>>I don't think I'm generally as diligent as you on that front (And thus have a mild expectation that your answer will boil down to "Well you remember to do the thing then do the thing, every day"), but still, do you have any tips for getting that kind of logging set up?
While personally I find leaving the LibreOffice document open at all times to be a sufficient reminder for the most part, this seems like the sort of thing where a lot of people would find recurring phone alarms very helpful.
The thread I got the idea from has some interesting variations and tips for how to make it a feasible habit to cultivate. I recommend reading the whole thread (it's fairly short) to see what you get out of it, but I'll give a particular shoutout to "labelling dates and symptoms on the columns and rows of a sheet of graph paper, then colouring in the appropriate squares". (That sounds like it could be pretty easily adapted to a digital spreadsheet if you'd prefer.)
(Good luck with the pain. *hug*)
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Migrating to a new laptop, like writing a public-facing article, is a good time to take an extra-thorough stock of one's methods. I've been making a few notes on things to tweak as I settle into my new computer, and I expect I'll post them once I've finished.