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@ifixcoinops ...and this is math class?

@Corina Though also I've never lived anywhere particularly big, one room in a 3-4 bedroom apartment, and rely a lot on e.g. left-behind dishes from the prior resident and/or roommates rather than bringing my own from one home to the next. So that changes the situation.

@Corina I reduced a lot of that issue by using stackable single-drawer boxes as storage furniture – no need to transfer things between shelves and boxes when moving, just tape them all shut and pack them in the truck, and put the stack wherever in the house makes sense after moving in. Doesn't really help now, but maybe for a future move.

@Paradox @Rasp Periodic backup to a dormant but onsite drive (e.g. a USB backup drive that's updated with a fresh snapshot daily) handles A, especially if it also keeps historical versions. Anything offsite handles both A and B.

@Paradox @Rasp The problems are that A: Software problems causing corrupted data to be written over clean older versions will do so on all disks with no chance for recovery, and B: many sources of physical damage (house fire, falling object, large spill, burglar) will break all the drives at once.

It's security against drives failing due to natural wear, and nothing else. And if two drives are of similar age, odds are good that one fails soon after the other.

@ifixcoinops Dunno about kilts but skirts are good.

@kelkyag @Aldersprig Yes, that. Worried I'd got the name wrong for a moment.

@Aldersprig Probably either Kael's Tower or Portal Closed or the mall. Not sure which.

@natecull @anahata@tech.lgbt @loke There's also game engines – but yeah, the things that tend to be built-in there are usually more niche. Though, honestly, take Godot, strip out the physics engine, that gives you a pretty good cross-platform core for GUI stuff that compiles to Windows, Linux, and OSX. Might be worth a look.

@ifixcoinops Huh. That's unexpected; I haven't tried learning another keyboard layout, but with game controllers it seems to take a lot more work to build up muscle memory on one than to switch to another layout, even for controllers with fairly significant differences (fight sticks, the Wii, etc). When it's basically the same physical shape but just different conventions for e.g. which of the four primary face buttons is yes/no/jump/etc, that takes barely any time.

@ijyx For me what does it best is telling someone (e.g. a friend) that I'm already doing it. The telling is *conversation* not *action* so it comes easier (provided you have someone you could reasonably talk about what you're currently doing with), and then that pushes it over the line into "don't make a liar of yourself".

@ifixcoinops I'm not sure you learning Dvorak quickly is a matter of Dvorak being easier to learn than Qwerty, so much as it being easier to adapt existing touch-typing skill to a new layout. At least, that seems to be true for a lot of other things – musical instruments are the big one I've heard it for. Have there been studies? The only ones I've heard of are about retraining having already known Qwerty, and even those show mixed results.