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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Had this thought the other day and tbh it's horrifying to think about the implications of one, or God forbid all, of them going down.
Stackoverflow too but that only applies to nerds haha

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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 46 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wikipedia essentially can't be destroyed without a global catastrophe that would mean we have way worse problems. Wikipedia is downloadable. Meaning the ENTIRE Wikipedia. And so there are many copies of it stored all around the planet.

If you have an extra 150 GB of space available then you can download a personal copy for yourself

https://www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-to-download-wikipedia-for-offline-at-your-fingertips-reading/

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Beacon@fedia.io 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But that's just for the text version without media files

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Beacon@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I assume that contains all the different languages. So most articles will repeat the same information like 10 times or whatever for all the different common languages. Still a huge amount of text though!

[–] macroplastic@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nope, 25 gb is just english language wikipedia compressed, no images. All the other languages are smaller.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Ahh compressed so it’s like… a lot times a lot of text

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Is that compressed? I assume, they let you download zip files?

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

With scraping, you can fully download YouTube, too.

You just need an additional 10 EB of storage space, Millions of different IP addresses, a law firm to deffend against Alphabet, lots of time and energy, ...

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think i have an old thumb drive with 10 exabytes free on it

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

You left that in your other pajamas, Professor Farnsworth.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Having just signed up for storage from Hertzer for nextcloud, that's insane. It'd be cheap as hell to just... Have my own Wikipedia.