I am specifically asking about software and needed libraries, not stuff like Wikipedia or the writings of Ernest Hemmingway.
To keep people from archiving all of github on thousands of shucked external hard drives cobbled together all Frankenstein-y to create a postapocalyptic data center assume a ~1TB storage limitation. Though I’m sure that person exists here on Lemmy somewhere :D
FreeBSD ports with distfiles for things really necessary, with dependencies. I guess that would fit in 1TB and leave some for ebooks and music.
Also software RAID is not Frankensteiny at all, neither are storage clusters of Ceph or alternatives.
What those things necessary would encompass, I don’t know. I suppose similar to Slackware full installation.
It would all make little sense without the Internet. You’d suddenly find that a year 1995 machine, one year older than me, and a few friendly BBSes are not as unrealistically small as they seem now.
Probably just clone and host a pornhub
Pornhub, but it’s just your cul-de-sac
Wikipedia
I need 800 GiB to host a Gentoo distfile mirror. This is what I would do.
TrashRobot. So i can crate a simple local wireless network and share data with people
I don’t use Web apps/software to begin with, explicitly because I don’t live under the illusion that everything will somehow exists forever, exactly the way it is.
I’ve been homeless, so I know how it is to be an artist without being online all the time. If the tool you use needs to be always online for some reason (and it’s not specifically related to the Internet), it’s a bad and useless tool.
It’s the reason I’m not jumping on the Photopea train until they release a proper installable program.
Maps would be the most valuable data.
Printed maps exist already though
How do we get this locally
openstreetmaps I think, and GPS.
- Fire Zeal and Fetch every API documentation listed there
- Pull latest deepseek models
- Clone entire debian current repo
- Clone Firefox, Linux and the gnu coreutils
- Clone Litecoin and Litewallet
- Download the most recent dump of Wikipedia
- Download all the maps and data available today in OSM
That should do for me
Open source collaboration will be difficult on mesh, so my contribution would be jailbreaks and cracked versions of softwares. My local government will need it since all their systems run on licensed software 🥲
I’d also get my hands on a bunch of iphone and android jailbreaks, because phone OSes might just stop working in 9 months if they’re left unmodified.
I’d be fucked because I work on and use OSS multiple times a day, and have no idea what a distributed maven central looks like
The most up-to-date information I can get on self hosting virtually anything, along with all major Linux distro’s and drivers I may need.
Yeah there will come a day where machines can’t support it, but I would then try to spend my time taking care of whatever I have on hand and future proofing as best I can, crossing my fingers and hoping that in 10 to 15 years there will be something else I can do
I’d just go back to living without it.
I’d raid a Google data center and work on rebuilding the Internet with whatever remains of their infrastructure. Wait is this us talking about our apocalypse plans or…?
I always see a lot of great and diverse solutions for maintaining information and even being self sufficient in the face of some sort of societal collapse and loss of infrastructure. I never see plans mentioned for what to do afterwards. The point being, there seems to be an assumption of either permanence to things like storage and alternative energy sources, or perhaps an implied having to just last a decade or so and things will be rebuilt.
So hypothetical, something happens and things go away, but someone in your community has set up a center of preservation of knowledge that can be tapped into through a mesh network, and everyone has a minimal power setup to use some things to do this and other electronic based work. Now what? Is asking this question too vague since there can be so many scenarios possible and we just have to figure it out from there?
TL;DR - what happens to a post-collapse tech center in the long run since we see all the time that there are limits to even the best storage media and parts wear out even in non-moving solar panels. Mass replacements and salvage are a given, but even that has limits and problems.
Keeping the electricity on long enough to enjoy games or movies is gonna be difficult if you rely on the grid right now.
So maybe archive the electronics stack exchange, and solar/battery installation guides so you can steal it if the neighbors roof.
If internet shuts down you’ll have trouble keeping your life long enough to enjoy this.
I know it’s a fun hypothetical but without internet wed be falling into an immediate collapse which we might recover from but many wouldn’t make it.
I don’t think you’re supposed to tease out this scenario too far. It’s a pretty focused question.
Don’t you like a little apocalypse tease? We’re kinda into that it seems
“I hate fun and having conversations with people”
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I’m just saying you can answer the question without having to worry about all Nuances and context around it. It’s like saying “what 3 items would you make sure to have in order to survive the zombie apocalypse?“ And someone goes “well without a robust healthcare system I’d likely die of natural causes so it’s moot.”
