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
Lots of good things already mentioned. So I’ll say Shareboxx
To start, I’d download nixpkgs. That would cover pretty much anything I could want.
Besides the basics (operating systems, compilers, office, CAD, database, etc software):
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A copy of open street map together with the linked Wikipedia articles, along with the software to view and edit them. I know you said no wikipedia, (since that’s pretty much a given), but this is basically the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy.
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A copy of Godot’s editor so people can still make games.
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As many games as I could fit in the remaining space, concentrating on the ones that give you the most bang for your buck in terms of space.
what are you looking at in terms of bang for buck games?
just hours per MB so all retro?
Retro is a good starting point. You can store just about every NES game ever released in less than a GB, and the SNES isn’t that much bigger. Once you get into the 3D era you might have to be a little more selective, but you could still fit a lot of early 3D games in there.
Another way to economize space would be video game mods. Since many mods reuse the same models and textures to make a new game, you could multiply the amount of content you get per MB that way. And there are a ton of Half Life 1 mods, Thief mods, and Doom WADs out there. Gmod can run over LAN, and there’s an absolute ton of maps and game modes for that.
Finally, there are some more modern games that are remarkably small. Animal Well is only 35 MB. Gloomwood is only 2.07 GB, comparable to the size of its inspiration Thief (1998), though Gloomwood is unfinished at the moment and will probably be bigger once it’s out of early access. Shadows of Doubt is 1.31 GB. Lethal Company weighs in at 1.07 GB and can apparently be made to work over LAN. ADACA at 2.44 GB is actually smaller than its inspirations Half Life 2 and STALKER, probably by dint of having only vertex colors and no textures.
Honestly, its a great way to go. I have a handheld for emulation. 1tb micro SD has a lot of games on it. Even if you’re just looking at PS1/N64 to PS2/GameCube era, you can get enough games to last you years and it won’t cost much.
oh yeah I’m well aware, I have an anbernic SP and I just ordered a retroid flip 2!
fingers crossed it doesn’t get hit by the tariffs but they earned an ounce of trust in me from how they handled the mini screen issue.
that being said, it is only an ounce of trust. I know well enough to not be blindsided by them potentially dropping the ball forcing me to eat the cost.
here’s hoping I don’t have to though!!
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Nothing, I would just to plant some potatoes instead or something
FYI it can take up to 3 years to bring enough nutrients and biodiversity to a patch of land to get really decent harvests, so if you haven’t started already now is the time to. Good luck, and may your potato harvests be bountiful!
