Not in the slightest, I'm afraid - I just went and checked and "low-access HTML files" consist of <4gb of my ~450gb of currently-used memory (out of 500gb, taking into account that I recently deleted a 38gb game). So even if I got very good compression it'd be a small overall gain. Probably worth it anyway though. (esp since once I get more space I want to e.g. start making scrapes of webcomics and webnovels that I like, so having a process would be good.).
>> Some SSD laptops that don't *come* with a dual-storage-drive system have an empty HDD slot
Unfortunately, I have the vice of buying very light-weight 2-in-1 laptops (since I will be carrying them with me literally everywhere short of the grocery store); I don't think it has space for that (google is ... very unhelpful, since HP seems to name laptops in parallel across all models or something and there are similarly-named laptops in many styles.
>> there's always external drives, though a separate unit can get unwieldy
Yeah if I come up with a good plan for splitting up all my stuff into stuff that can be kept on external drives, I have two (one that I bought explicitly for backups; one that came with the process of extracting stuff from my damaged laptop when I realized I had like an ~~very sensible person~~ idiot, left the drive with the most recent backup (made just before I left by a matter of hours) in Australia two weeks after I got here, and brought a drive whose most recent backup was six months old. So I have the hardware; I don't have a schema for which book I can put up with having to go get that hardware to read. Maybe I should make a spreadsheet of what exactly is taking up how much memory.
>>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.
My related experience is with keeping a diary; this fails either way when my sleep cycle gets out of whack because the definition of "end of day" gets fuzzy. My sleep cycle is currently very out of whack, mostly because I keep trying to drag it to local time and it keeps getting dragged back to silly times by lack of IRL commitments and the desire to chat with friends who wake up at local 1am-3am.
>>The thread I got the idea from
*adds to to-read list*
>> (Good luck with the pain. *hug*)
... if I say it's not that bad you'll shout at me, no doubt, but I genuinely don't think it's that bad by chronic-pain standards. *hugs anyway* (The week I spent four (non-consecutive) days nearly unable to walk due to pain was, uh, not good, though, but that's literally the worst it's ever been)
>> 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.
I hope it goes well and look forward to hearing the results.
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Not in the slightest, I'm afraid - I just went and checked and "low-access HTML files" consist of <4gb of my ~450gb of currently-used memory (out of 500gb, taking into account that I recently deleted a 38gb game). So even if I got very good compression it'd be a small overall gain. Probably worth it anyway though. (esp since once I get more space I want to e.g. start making scrapes of webcomics and webnovels that I like, so having a process would be good.).
>> Some SSD laptops that don't *come* with a dual-storage-drive system have an empty HDD slot
Unfortunately, I have the vice of buying very light-weight 2-in-1 laptops (since I will be carrying them with me literally everywhere short of the grocery store); I don't think it has space for that (google is ... very unhelpful, since HP seems to name laptops in parallel across all models or something and there are similarly-named laptops in many styles.
>> there's always external drives, though a separate unit can get unwieldy
Yeah if I come up with a good plan for splitting up all my stuff into stuff that can be kept on external drives, I have two (one that I bought explicitly for backups; one that came with the process of extracting stuff from my damaged laptop when I realized I had like an ~~very sensible person~~ idiot, left the drive with the most recent backup (made just before I left by a matter of hours) in Australia two weeks after I got here, and brought a drive whose most recent backup was six months old. So I have the hardware; I don't have a schema for which book I can put up with having to go get that hardware to read. Maybe I should make a spreadsheet of what exactly is taking up how much memory.
>>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.
My related experience is with keeping a diary; this fails either way when my sleep cycle gets out of whack because the definition of "end of day" gets fuzzy. My sleep cycle is currently very out of whack, mostly because I keep trying to drag it to local time and it keeps getting dragged back to silly times by lack of IRL commitments and the desire to chat with friends who wake up at local 1am-3am.
>>The thread I got the idea from
*adds to to-read list*
>> (Good luck with the pain. *hug*)
... if I say it's not that bad you'll shout at me, no doubt, but I genuinely don't think it's that bad by chronic-pain standards. *hugs anyway* (The week I spent four (non-consecutive) days nearly unable to walk due to pain was, uh, not good, though, but that's literally the worst it's ever been)
>> 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.
I hope it goes well and look forward to hearing the results.