That’s really interesting, and your theory sounds good. All martial arts have their personalities; Aikido is very structured, but not loud; Wing Chin is very quiet, and more laid back; Jiu Justsu is pretty quiet, too, except for a lot of grunting. Karate is quite martial - it reminds me of being in the Army. I’ve never studied it, but one of my friends did, and I sat in on a couple of classes. There’s an awful lot of shouting.

I had a Rammstein phase; it was just long after I’d moved back from Germany.

I love this map!

English is kind of the international language nowadays.

Luckily for me, but sad choice.

The rule has become: different name, different language. Quebequois and France French are both French because they both call the language French.

Oooo, I want to learn Persian, just for the script. I had a Persian girl friend briefly who taught me to spell my same; I’ve long since forgotten, but it’s gorgeous.

When I met her, she insisted she was Persian. When I pressed her about it, she said it was for safety, because we were in the middle of Iran-Contra and she was worried telling people she was Iranian would get her animosity. Back then, I thought that was silly, but then, it turns out she understood my countrymen better than I did.

Eastern Swiss is German, you sly dog. So it’s Austrian. I think they even call it “German” don’t they? That’s like distinguishing “American” and “British”.

It’d be more space efficient to store a COW2 of Linux with a minimum desktop and basically only DarkTable on it. The VM format hasn’t changed in decades.

Shoot. A bootable disc containing Linux and the software you need to access the images, and on a separate track, a COW2 image of the same, and on a third, just DarkTable. Best case, you pop in the drive & run DarkTable. Or, you fire up a VM with the images. Worst case, boot into linux. This may be the way I go, although - again - the source images are the important part.

I’d be careful with using SSDs for long term, offline storage.

What I meant was, keep the master sidecar on SSD for regular use, and back it up occasionally to a RW disc. Probably with a simply cp -r to a directory with a date. This works for me because my sources don’t change, except to add data, which is usually stored in date directories anyway.

You’re also wanting to archive the exported files, and sometimes those change? Surely, this is much less data? Of you’re like me, I’ll shoot 128xB and end up using a tiny fraction of the shots. I’m not sure what I’d do for that - probably BD-RW. The longevity isn’t great, but it’s by definition mutable data, and in any case the most recent version can be easily enough regenerated as long as I have the sidecar and source image secured.

Burning the sidecar to disk is less about storage and more about backup, because that is mutable. I suppose an append backup snapshot to M-Disc periodically would be boots and suspenders, and frankly the sidecar data is so tiny I could probably append such snapshots to a single disc for years before it all gets used. Although… sidecar data would compress well. Probably simply tgz, then, since it’s always existed, and always will, even if gzip has been superseded by better algorithms.

BTW, I just learned about the b3 hashing algorithm (about which I’m chagrined, because I thought I kept an eye out on the topic of compression and hashing). It’s astonishingly fast - for the verification part, is what I’m suggesting.

Yes, the Germanic languages all count separately. Canadian French doesn’t count differently from France French because they call it “French” and it’s essentially completely understandable. I’ve known Bavarians who insist Hamburgers are unintelligible, although it’s all German.

I can almost understand Danish. Almost. Words, here and there. But not Swedish at all.

For the purposes of this count, if it’s called a different name, it’s a different language, regardless of how closely related. If it’s called the same language, but they’ve drifted dialectically so much natives can barely understand each other, it’s still the same language.

Help! Help! I’m being oppressed!

Hmm.

German, French, English, Japanese (seriously, I never realized how much language I took away from martial arts classes! And in my post about counting, a significant percent of other people did, too), Spanish, Esperanto. I think that’s it - 6.

I can say “blindingly drunk” in Russian, which seems useful. Also, “trust, but verify,” - thanks, Raegan. Two phrases, neither of which are “please or thank you,” but matching the cardinality of your question so I should get a half-point.

Yup. Good plan.

Frankly, the best thing is to get multiple trauma kits and have them at home, in a your cars, and so on. Good ones are not cheap, and the odds I’ll ever need one are slim, so I haven’t made that investment yet. But it’s good to have a plan.

The densities I’m seeing on M-Discs - 100GB, $5 per, a couple years ago - seemed acceptable to me. $50 for a TB? How big is your archive? Mine still fits in a 2TB disk.

Copying files directly would work, but my library is real big and that sounds tedious.

I mean, putting it in an archive isn’t going to make it any smaller. Compression on even lossless compressed images doesn’t often help.

And we’re talking about 100GB discs. Is squeezing that last 10MB out of the disk by splitting an image across two disks worth it?

The metadata is a different matter. I’d have to think about how to handle the sidecar data… but that you could almost keep on a DVD-RW, because there’s no way that’s going to be anywhere near as large as the photos themselves. Is your photo editor DB bigger than 4GB?

I never change the originals. When I tag and edit, that information is kept separate from the source images - so I never have multiple versions of pictures, unless I export them for printing, or something, and those are ephemeral and can be re-exported by the editor with the original and the sidecar. Music, and photos, I always keep the originals isolated from the application.

This is good, though; it’s helping me clarify how I want to archive this stuff. Right now mine is just backed up on multiple disks and once in B2, but I’ve been thinking about how to archive for long term storage.

I think in going to go the M-Disc route, with sidecar data on SSD and backed up to BluRay RW. The trick will be letting DarkTable know that the source images are on different media, but I’m pretty sure I saw an option for that. For sure, we’re not the first people to approach this problem.

The whole static binary thing - I’m going that route with an encrypted share for financial and account info, in case I die, but that’s another topic.

It doesn’t. It’s just “99” a bunch.

It’s so hard without immersion!

Dos (point) nueve?

Shit. I’ll have to add Spanish. Again, except for growing up in California, I have no justification for being able to count to ten, even if I can’t spell the words right.

For 9, just remember 99 Luftballons. It’s literally “nine und ninety”.

Hmnm. Is 2 Swedish? Danish?

What languages are numbers four and five?

Bonus points for Celtic, and using Cryllic characters!

She says that’s the most accurate description she’s ever heard.